The Reading Life Review - September, 2017

Included in my September collage are some of the greatest poets of all time, two Booker Prize Winners, several in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genres, including a back to back winner of two Hugo Award along with writers at the start of what I predict will be distinguished careers.  

I posted upon the work of 8 men and 10 women.

11 are alive and 6 are not.  America has the most authors this month at 7

followed by England with 4, Ireland 2, Canada 2, Italy 1, and Iran (was Persia) 1.

There are six poets in the collage.  I anticipate reading more poetry going forward. 

I do collages because I enjoy it and it helps New readers see at a glance the multicultural nature of The Reading Life and my commitment to Literary Globalism.

Somehow it gives me a good feeling to place an image of a just starting writer next to one from the Pantheon. 

Column One (at the left, top to bottom

1. Jenny Zhang, author of The Sour Heart
2. T. S. Eliot. The Waste Land, most influential poem of the 20th Century
3. Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
4. Shauna Gilligan, author of Happiness Comes from Nowhere

Column Two

1. Meia Geddes- author of The Little Queen
2. Jeff Pearce.  Nonfiction on WW Two in Ethiopia 
3. Anne C. Bailey - historian on Slavery in America 
4. Mavis Gallant 

Column Three

1. Sylvia Plath
2. N. K. Jemisin - winner of back to back Hugo Awards
3. Rachel Kaddish. - Author of The Weight of Ink
4. Omar Khayyam 

Column Four

1. Penelope Lively.  Booker Prize Winner
2. John Keats 
3. Thomas Gray

Column Five

1. John Banville.  Booker Prize Winner
2. Edgardo Franzosini-author of The Grazer
3. Naomi Kritzer - Science Fiction Writer.  

Additionally I read two books upon which I did not post:

1. The Odyssey:  A Father, A Son, and an Epic by Donald Mendolsohn
2. Moving the Palace by Charif Majdalan

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