Last week we invited living authors to dinner and people came up with some wonderful choices and good food. I promised that this week we would have a chance to choose some authors who have died.
I upped the number to five because it was so hard to choose only three last week and because there are so many wonderful authors who go back thousands of years.
You may choose more than five if you want to, but consider that they would all need a chance to speak. It might be easier to have several dinners.
I really enjoyed the questions that you mentioned last week to ask the authors and I hope you will ask even more this week.
The authors may have died, but their work lives on in our hearts and on the shelves.
My five authors are Dorothy Dunnett, Thomas Merton, Molly Ivins, Homer, and
John Steinbeck.
Dorothy wrote stunning historical fiction; Merton wrote essays, books and poems while being a monk and hermit; Molly wrote newspaper columns, books and gave speeches;
Homer is credited with the Iliad and the Odyssey; and John Steinbeck wrote novels, short novels, re-wrote King Arthur tales, and published a journal about his trip collecting marine samples in the Sea of Cortez.
As others have said, I would mostly just sit and listen to my guests, but I am sure there would be a great deal of political discussion among those I have chosen.
The books I have read by my chosen authors:
Dorothy Dunnett
King Hereafter
Lymond Chronicles
Game of Kings
Queen’s Play
Disorderly Knights
Pawn in Frankincense
Ringed Castle
Checkmate
House of Niccolo
Niccolo Rising
Spring of the Ram
Race of Scorpions
Scales of Gold
To Hunt Unicorns
Lie Down with Lions
Caprice and Rondo
Gemini
Thomas Merton
Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
At Home in the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and
Rosemary Radford Ruether ed. Mary Tardiff
When the Trees Say Nothing ed. Kathleen Deignan
The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals ed. Patrick Hart & Jonathan Montaldo
Dancing in the Water of Life vol. five 1963-1965 ed. By Robert Daggy
Molly Ivins
You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
Bushwhacked
Bill of Wrongs with Lou Dubose
Bill in Portland Maine featured Molly on the front page in Cheers and Jeers, yesterday, and gave a site for her columns:
http://freepress.org/...
Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
Cannery Row
The Pearl
The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights
My Life in Letters
The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Who would you choose? What books of theirs do you love? What questions would you ask?
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