“John McPhee. I normally read him in the New Yorker before his books come out.”

Ken Schweber, Princeton

“Victor Brombert. The book is Trains of Thought.”

Caroline Kahn with Ava, Princeton

“Peter Benchley for Jaws, and John O’Hara.”

Henry Opatut, Princeton

“Jeffrey Eugenides for Middlesex.”

Kelly Stephenson, Princeton

“Toni Morrison for Beloved, and Joyce Carol Oates.”

Murray Tabachnick, Princeton

Rebecca : “Dr. Robert Fagles for translating the Iliad.” Sandy: “Joyce Carol Oates, and one of my favorites is Missing Mom.”

Daughter, Rebecca Katz, and mother, Sandy Karinsky, Princeton