Authors Who Inspired Authors

A Beginning List of Authors and Books 
     that Inspired Authors who Inspire Me

Read by Day, Merton, O'Connor, & Percy
(According to Paul Elie's book The Life You Save May Be Your Own)

• Augustine
• Balzac
• Blake
• Agathe Christie
• Joseph Conrad
• DeQuincey
• Dickens
• Dostoevsky
• Dumas
• T.S. Eliot
• Galsworthy
• Gorky
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Victor Hugo
• William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience
• James Joyce
• Thomas a Kempis' The Imitation of Christ
• Kierkegaard
• Peter Kropotkin
• Jack London
• De Maupassant
• Frank Norris
• O'Neill
• The Papal Encyclicals
• The Psalms
• Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
• Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
• St. Teresa of Avila
• St. Therese of Lisieux
• Tolstoy