Mann, Thomas--The Magic Mountain
Marjorie Morningstar--Herman Wouk
Malamud, Bernard--The Fixer
Nesbit, E(dith) - The Treasure Seekers, The Railway Children, Five Children and It, Wet Magic ... and more
Naipaul, V S - early novels such as House for Mr Biswas, for humour, and the darker books like In a Free State, Area of Darkness for insight- all for good writing
Ondaatje, Michael - The English Patient
Oates, Carol - Jane Eyre
Portnoy's Complaint--Philip Roth
Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen
Quelch, the teacher from the Billy Bunter books
Q, in the James Bond books
Requiem for a Nun--William Faulkner
Rabbit, Run--John Updike
Salammbo. Gustave Flaubert.
Songs of Innocence. William Blake.
Tyler, Anne--Breathing Lessions (and everything else she's written).
Thurber James--My Life and Hard Times (and everything else he wrote).
Ulysses
Updike, John
Uris, Leon
Vanity Fair - Thackeray
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
Westlake, Donald--The Hot Rock
West, Nathanael--Miss Lonelyhearts
Xinran - The Good Women of China, written about her phone-in show on Shanghai radio (and she's Mary Wesley's daughter-in-law)
Hey, Bree! Long tome no see!
Yeats, William Butler
Zola, Emile - Nana and many others.
How about statues of well known people?
Konrad Adenauer - Berlin - Germany
Christopher Columbus--Columbus, Ohio
David - Michelangelo - Florence, Italy
Edison, Thomas (Fort Meyers, Florida)
Einstein--Washington, D.C.
Captain Matthew Flinders RN. Famous English explorer of Australia. London
