Jacquelyn Mitchard's Reading Interests
Influences
F. Scott Fitgerald, Emily Bronte, Truman Capote, Michael Shaara, Rick Bass, Thomas H. Cook, Alice Monroe, Lorrie Moore, Sherman Alexie, Sue Miller, Ann Tyler, Ann Patchett, Wallace Stegner, Elizabeth Berg, Daniel James Brown, Rumer Godden, Ruth Rendall, Wiley Cash, Mitchell Wieland, Peter Carey, Nick Hornby, Stephen King, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Enid Bagnold, Alice Elliott Dark, Shirley Jackson.
Writing is like breaking rocks in the hot sun, for the angels.”
About Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Mitchard was born in Chicago, the daughter of plumber and a mother who brought her putty from her part-time job at the hardware store. Of Canadian, Czech, and American Indian descent (a member of the Lac du Flambeau Cree Chippewa tribe) she is...
Connections
Causes Jacquelyn Mitchard Supports
National MS Society, Women Against MS, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, One Writer's Place