Most Influential Authors & Speakers

Herein my tribute to those who most influenced my thinking and writing (not in order of priority): Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Ted Kooser, Mary Oliver, Henry David Thoreau, J. D. Salinger William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dylan Thomas, Langston Hughes, Harper Lee, David McCullough, Walter Isaacson, Creator of All There Is, Was, and Will Be