Penelope Lively, the wonderful English writer born in Egypt. Sell us on your favorite overlooked or underappreciated writer. Nothing compares with her lyrical, heart-wrenching, gorgeous prose. My favorite novelist working today is our greatest living writer, Toni Morrison. Read “Wuthering Heights” when you’re 18 and you think Heathcliff is a romantic hero when you’re 30, he’s a monster at 50 you see he’s just human. Who is your favorite novelist of all time? And your favorite novelist writing today?Īll time - Emily Brontë, author of the greatest psychological novel ever written, with the most complex character ever conceived. I can’t wait to read what she writes next. “The Death of Bees,” by Lisa O’Donnell, a dark, fierce first novel that is a page-turner and a fairy tale turned inside out. “Inside the Dream Palace,” by Sherill Tippins, the history of the Chelsea Hotel, since I’m a Chelsea girl. “Time and Again,” by Jack Finney, which I missed in the ’70s and just discovered - I am a huge fan of all time travel. What books are currently on your night stand? “I hadn’t known that a book could speak so directly to a reader.” The author of “The Museum of Extraordinary Things” found a copy of “The Catcher in the Rye” on her mother’s bookshelf.
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