Showing posts with label influences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label influences. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

The Mark of Zorro

A favorite film of Brackett's when younger.


4 out of 5

Douglas Fairbanks Sr

A favourite actor of Brackett's in her youth.


4 out of 5

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

A particular book that influenced Brackett in her youth.


4 out of 5

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/236

P. C. Wren

A writer of influence Brackett read in her youth.


4 out of 5

Jack London

A writer of influence Brackett read in her youth.


4 out of 5

Arthur Conan Doyle

A writer of influence Brackett read in her youth.


4 out of 5

Rudyard Kipling

A writer of influence Brackett read in her youth.


4 out of 5

Talbot Mundy

A writer of influence Brackett read in her youth.


4 out of 5

John Buchan

A writer of influence Brackett read in her youth.


4 out of 5

Monday, January 31, 2011

H. Rider Haggard

A writer of influence Brackett read in her youth.


4 out of 5

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Leigh Brackett

Clearly a big influence in her youth, as she said multiple times.


5 out of 5

Survey of the Ancient World - James Henry Breasted

Brackett came across this in the 'seventh or eighth grade' and became an Ancient History buff.

The book appears to be a general survey from early man to the rise of christianity.

Note that it is public domain.

Unread.

http://www.archive.org/details/surveyofancientw00breauoft