...Simpson. A girl's coming-of-age in 1950s Green Bay, Wis. -- "Light Action in the Caribbean" (Knopf) by Barry Lopez. Title story and 12 others. -- "Disobedience" (Doubleday) by Jane Hamilton. A teen discovers that his mother...

...to her more: Jack London, whose Alaskan adventures were an inspiration for her own; contemporary writers such as Barry Lopez and George Garrett. Even among novelists from the Old World, she preferred others, notably Mann. Kafka began working...