Richard E. Gower

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

17 Stories

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Author bio

My (unfulfilled) dream job: Head Writer for The Simpsons I write mostly fiction, and write to be read. Someone else said it better, but my goal is to write stories that are worth plagiarizing. All stories are Copyright © 2023 Richard E. Gower Some writers whose work I admire: Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Kazuo Ishiguro, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paula McLean, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Fannie Flagg, Stephen King, Eleanor Catton, John Updike, Dorothy Parker, Isaac Asimov, Katherine Anne Porter, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, Max Folsom, Lewis Carroll, Thorne Smith, Emily Brontë, S.J. Perelman, Jack Finney, Donna Leon, Eugene O'Neill, Madeline Thien, P.J. O'Rourke, Hannah Arendt, John Cheever, Iris Murdoch, O. Henry, Joyce Carol Oates, Ernest K. Gann, Eudora Welty, Henry David Thoreau, Harper Lee, Robertson Davies, Naomi Novik, John D. MacDonald, Mary Shelley, Nevil Shute, Maeve Binchy, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Irwin Shaw, P.D. James, Tom Robbins, Pearl S. Buck, Arthur Miller, Charlotte Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, H. P. Lovecraft, Herman Wouk, Graham Greene, Richard Russo, and Many, many others...