Meg Rosoff
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So it's, you know, those novels by women, mainly.
I mean, of course, I love Nabokov and Lolita.
And, you know, I love strange, screwy, dark, odd books.
But I would have to say it's those domestic novels that I love more than anything.
There are people like Barbara Trapito.
I mean, there are so many fabulous books.
female writers who have always been ever so slightly undervalued, I think.
And I'm also slightly obsessed with female explorers.
So one of my great heroes in life was an English woman called Isabella Bird, who was a 19th century explorer.
So there's a lot in my background.
I was obsessed with Contiki, Thor Heyerdahl.
as a child and read it over and over and over and over again.
And of course, I loved Catch-22 and, you know, Shakespeare and all that.
But, you know, I studied English literature at Harvard.
And even though I didn't read a huge number of the books I was supposed to be reading for my course, it was kind of my formative influence more than American literature.