We always love hearing about our authors and how they got started writing! This week, David Klein, author of Clean Break, shares the books he read in high school that inspired him to become an author:

Carrie by Stephen King

When a teen girl is outcast by her classmates, she uses her special gift to enact revenge on her classmates.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Capote narrates the psychological and emotional depths of a small-town quadruple murder in 1960’s Kansas.

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

An engineer, living in a world controlled by a supercomputer, refuses to live in his new society and rebels against the new order.

A Separate Piece by John Knowles

At a boys boarding school during WWII, two friends experience a tumultuous coming of age over one summer.

Trinity by Leon Uris

An idealistic, young Catholic rebel in warring Ireland teams up with a Protestant girl in a final fight for freedom.

Pinterest PS – check out this wintery Pinterest board, inspired by David’s book!