The Washington Post, August 22nd, 1999
In which the editor of Book World reveals her long addiction to the delights and delirium of reading, from The Wind in the Willows to Yeats's poetry to a six-week binge on anything set in the land of Oz. As editor of The Washington Post's Book World, I recently asked 10 well-known authors to write about books that had changed their lives. Their choices were sometimes odd, always interesting: Susan Sontag on travel writer Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels, Frank McCourt on Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain, Kitty Kelley on Huckleberry Finn. They set me to looking for comparable epiphani...
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