I've been memed!

or, rather tagged. Undine tagged me for the influential writers meme.

The rules: List 25 authors who have influenced you; then tag 25 peeps, uh people. That's it. They don't have to be important writers or favorite writers, just influential ones.

In no particular order,

1. Hans Christian Andersen (whose name I always spell wrong and have to check)
2. Tom Robbins
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Carolyn Keene (or, you know, the Stratemeyer Syndicate)
5. Jane Austen
6. Judith Butler
7. C.S. Lewis
8. Patricia McKillip
9. Lee Smith
10. Nick Bantock
11. Judith Halberstam
12. J.R.R. Tolkien
    
13. William Goldman
14. Dr. Seuss
15. Zora Neale Hurston
16. Alice Walker
17. Susan Douglas
18. Marion Zimmer Bradley
19. Ernest Hemingway
    
20. Douglas Adams
21. W.B. Yeats
22. Lord Byron
23. William Hazlitt
24. Williams Blake
25. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

This was so hard! I kept thinking of writers I like, not those that influenced me. And by the time I got going, I already had 25.

Now, for tags. Actually I started listing people from my blog roll, and embedding links is time consuming and I'm lazy, so I gave up. Undine is a far a better blogger than I. So, I tag you. Yes, you. Don't look over your shoulder like there's someone else standing there. If you're reading this, then tag--you're it!