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A. They were my models. Particularly Zola. It's the idea of the novelist putting the individual in the setting of society at large and realizing the pressure society exerts on the individual. This is something that has been lost over the past 40 years in the American novel.
Q. An assessment of yourself as a writer?
A. I am just the chronicler. My passion is to discover, and to write about it.