Tito Perdue's Reading Interests
Favorite Books
The Iliad
Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England by Thomas Cockayne
Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam
New Austerities
What I'm Reading
I'm re-reading Don Quixote
Favorite Authors
Dostoyevsky
Thomas Hardy
Tito Perdue
Influences
I was primarily influenced by Thomas Wolfe when young. Reading Wolfe sealed my fate. I had to become a writer myself.
About Tito
I grew up in the Alabama of the 1950's and opted to write novels as a result of my acquaintance with William Faulkner and Thomas Wolf. My first novel, Lee, was published in 1991 and received very heterogenous reviews. Utilizing formal language, I write from...
Tito’s Favorite Books
The Iliad
Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England by Thomas Cockayne
Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam
New Austerities