Joni Rodgers's Reading Interests
Influences
I've been a voracious reader since I was four years old, so I'd have to start with Maurice Sendak and Laura Ingals Wilder. I have a tattoo of William Shakespeare on my back, so he must be given some credit. Right now I'm eating up Dashiell Hammett and Raymon Chandler. My women's fiction was heavilly influenced by chemo drugs, and my memoirs are informed by the people around me. I've been blessed with a succession of fabulous editors and learned something profound from each of the extraordinary people I've worked with as a ghostwriter.
Rodgers' strength is a knack for realistic characters and a womanly wise, laugh-through-tears appreciation of life.”
—Publisher's Weekly
About Joni
New York Times bestselling author Joni Rodgers was born into a family bluegrass band and grew up on stage, opening for country music legends in the 1960s and 70s. She was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1994 and used the chemo downtime to finish her...
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Causes Joni Rodgers Supports
Leukemia Lymphoma Society, Lymphoma Research Foundation, The Wellness Community, Susan G Komen for the Cure





