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[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "jeziguh" <jeziguh at e...> 
wrote:
> Acire wrote:
> > See, here (States), we don't have any good, local, living 
authors. 
> > If we did, or if I had seen a book/essay/poem that was written 
> > recently, my opinion would be different. Maybe. We haven't had 
any 
> > good books written recently. I'm sure someone's else's opinion 
> > would be different, though. 
> 
> Would you consider Toni Morrison a "good, local, living" author?  
> Because she's alive, still writing, resides in the US, and general 
> consensus seems to be that she is a "good" author (and that Nobel 
> Prize in Literature also helps).  

Not a Nobel laureate in literature, but I'm very partial to the 
mystery/detective stories of Tony Hillerman. He has a wonderful way 
of writing that is very visual and he doesn't waste words. I do love 
Toni Morrison too.


Anne U