Author Influences

I was tagged in this note on Facebook, and thought it was pretty fun.

List fifteen authors, any GENRE, who have influenced you and will always stick with you. Do this in no more than fifteen minutes. 

Here are mine:

1. Victoria Holt: for her serious, strong female first person narratives
2. Margaret Mitchell and Alexandra Ripley: for their sagas
3. L.M. Montgomery: for Anne
4. Agatha Christie: for her cozy British atmosphere
5. J.K. Rowling: for her joyously whimsical fantasy
6. Nora Roberts: for a love of romance
7. Marian Keyes: for her mastery of substantive chick lit
8. Jacqueline Carey: for her quiet, epic, perfectly plotted female first person narrative in Phedre
9. Anne Lamott: for her just right book on the writing life and her spiritual journey
10. Julia Glass: for her characterization
11. Percy Bysshe Shelley/Samuel Taylor Coleridge/William Wordsworth/John Keats: for underscoring the purpose of my vision
12. Katherine Mansfield: for her frothy, intimate language and vision of beauty
13. Juliet Marillier: for her quiet, intricate, strong female first person narratives
14. Dodie Smith: for her first person perfection in Cassandra
15. Virginia Woolf: for her rhythms

Who are yours? :)