| Male |
| October 13 |
| IL |
| Short Fiction Writer |
| Reading, Writing |
| Hard Times, American Pastoral, Emma, The Innocents Abroad, Turn of The Screw, Daisy Miller |
| Charles Dickens, Samuel Clemens, Henry James, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Harlan Coben, William Carlos Williams, David Baldacci, Jane Austen, John Grisham, Philip Roth, Leo Tolstoy. |
| ee Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost. |
| You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury |
| Gran Torino, Bordertown, The Road. |