Influences

• Weekly trips to the library as a child; my mother reading all of Jane Austen each summer, and at least two books a week during the year; my father "doing all the voices" as he read to us each night on the couch; fairy tales, Twain, The Bastable Children,
  
  The Wizard of Oz series; the Brontes; The Sound and the Fury; Paradise Lost; Henry James; Jane Austen; Virginia Woolf; Ford Madox Ford; Elizabeth Bowen; and on and on and on.

Web Links

• Harriet Scott Chessman's web site