Fiction
Writers: Richard Ford, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sue Grafton, Anne Tyler,
Ernest Hemingway, Elmore Leonard, Barbara Kingsolver, Bobbie Ann
Mason, Nora Roberts, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, and Anita Shreve.
Nonfiction Writers: A.
Scott Berg, Thomas D. Clark, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, David McCullough, Thomas Friedman,
David Halberstam, Paul Hemphill, Frank McCourt, Gail Sheehy, and Bill Moyers.
Books: The Sun Also
Rises (Ernest Hemingway), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee),
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), The Sportswriter (Richard
Ford), Great Expectations (Charles Dickens), Teacher Man (Frank
McCourt), The Accidental Tourist
(Anne Tyler), and On Writing (Stephen King).
Music artists: The
Moody Blues, The Beatles, The Doors, Procol Harum, Alan Parsons
Project, Kentucky Headhunters, Spirit, Three Dog Night, Lee Roy Parnell, Nanci Griffith, Patty Loveless, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Harry Chapin,
David Arkenstone, Coldplay, Josh Groban, Ocean Colour Scene, David
Benoit, Hank
Williams, and ABBA.
Movies: Citizen Kane,
The Wizard of Oz, In the Gloaming, The Natural, MASH, Schlinder's
List, Casablanca, The Bridges of Madison County, Million Dollar
Baby, Woodstock, The Last Waltz, The Big Chill, Dr. Strangelove,
Cool Hand Luke, and It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
