Re: Time Magazine & Lit
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Tue, 02 Jun 1998 23:04:33 -0400
> i'd hate to sound trite here.. but if we're talking influential artists how
> can they possibly look over twain... i think he's a wonderful writer and just
> because everybody and there brother knows about him shouldnt degrade his
> value... how many authors have called huck finn the most influential book in
> western lit?
Certainly Ernest Hemingway agreed (in Green Hills of Africa, where he
declares that all American literature is descended from Huck Finn). But
Twain is generally considered a 19th century writer, and I think the
magazine was trying to identify writers of this century.
--tim o'connor