A: Gary Snyder, William Stafford, Allen Ginsberg, W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker, Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare, Joyce Carol Oates, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway
**Of all these authors I would still like to read some Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf - I haven't really read much of any of them. If there are any others above that anyone would recommend let me know...I am open to suggestions.
Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" was a very good book. It's about an intelligent, young girl who slowly has a mental breakdown. Plath herself suffered from major depression and committed suicide by sticking her in an oven. I don't like to judge a writer by her book, but I can't help but relate it to Plath. But my point is, is that "The Bell Jar" was an excellent book. I've haven't read any Toni Morrison, but I know she wrote "Beloved," which I think has to do with race. I have read a few Virginia Woolf short stories, but I'm not a fan. They're good...she's not a bad writer at all, it just isn't really my cup of tea. But she is a good writer. Her short stories come off as conversational narratives, in a sense, and sometimes I get lost because she jumps from topic to topic very quickly.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to put "her head." She stuck her head in an oven.
ReplyDeleteThank's Heather for the suggestions...I will check those out for sure now.
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