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Author Snapshot John Hart

1.Who are your favorite authors?: Dennis Lehane, Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Patricia Cornwell, John Grisham, Laura Lippman. Hard working pros who've been doing their jobs well for a long time.
2.Who has had a major influence on your writing?: Pat Conroy. There is such soulfulness to his writing, a nakedness that gives his stories real power. He's also a beautiful wordsmith.
3.Name a book you never finished?: Moby Dick. I'm embarrassed.
4.What word or words do you always have trouble spelling?: Sarcophagus, not that I use it often.
5.What three adjectives best describe you?: Relaxed. Joyful. Committed.
6.Which of your characters would you want to be and why?: I would never want his life, but Johnny Merrimon from The Last Child has this wonderful fierceness, a kind of clarity I admire. He's a remarkable character: strong, deep and courageous.
7.Which author would you invite to dinner?: John Grisham. He's still my hero.
8.Where do you write?: I always have an office away from home. My wife and kids are merciless distractions. Plus, I need the transition.
9.When do you write?: I keep office hours. Nine to five, basically. Usually with a nap after lunch.
10.What makes you happy?: Walking on my farm. My family and dogs. Printing off a new chapter. Finding the perfect words.
11.What do you most fear?: Other than sharks and cancer and bad things happening to those I Iove ... not much.
12.What is your favorite vice?: Beer, bourbon, vodka ... does that count as just one?
13.What is the quality you most like in yourself?: The willingness to take risks in pursuit of things that matter.
14.What are the qualities you most like in your friends?: Their ability to put up with me.
15.Would you be lying if you said your works were not autobiographical?: No, there's really nothing that's autobiographical. That being said, there's a lot of me scattered around in bits and pieces of the characters.
16.What part of your personality do you detest?: I can be quite lazy at times.
17.What is your favorite adjective?: Ethereal.
18.What is your favorite book?: The Lord of the Rings.
19.What book would you read three times?: Same as above. I think I've read it five times since I was fifteen years old.
20.To whom would you award the Nobel Prize for Literature and why?: I'd give Harper Lee another one. To Kill a Mockingbird remains unmatched after all these years.

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