Grant Hayter-Menzies's Reading Interests
Favorite Books
A few books and authors I can read over and over again: "The Mill on The Floss"; "Black Lamb & Grey Falcon"; "A Dream of Red Mansions"; "A Distant Mirror"; "Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World"; "Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China"; "Miss Osborne-the-Mop"; "The Golovlyov Family"; "Jane Eyre"; "Princess From the Land of Snows"; "To The Lighthouse"; "Orlando"; "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"; "Seven Gothic Tales"; "Out of Africa"; the memoirs of Jacques Casanova; the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon; poetry of Virginia Hamilton Adair, Stevie Smith, Max Bodenheim, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Brontë, Robert Frost, Hoyt Hudson, Emily Dickinson; Po Chuyi; Li Bai
What I'm Reading
Something related to what I'm writing!
Influences
Rebecca West, Barbara Tuchman, Lady Antonia Fraser, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Jonathan Spence, William Luce, Sir Michael Holroyd, Sterling Seagrave, Vita Sackville-West, Hector Hugh Munro
Grant Hayter-Menzies’s Bookmarks
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About Grant
Grant Hayter-Menzies is the author of "Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling", "The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds", both published by Hong Kong University Press, and the first biographies of stage...
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Grant’s Favorite Books
A few books and authors I can read over and over again: "The Mill on The Floss"; "Black Lamb & Grey Falcon"; "A Dream of Red Mansions"; "A Distant Mirror...
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