I loved reading since age ten. Every summer break, I would read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and dream about running away from home, and floating down a river in a raft. When I took “American Lit” in school and saw how the teachers almost worshiped Hemingway, Faulkner, and the other American authors, I wanted to give the world stories people would read and love one hundred years from now.