EOB
's imaginative development was nourished by her wide reading, and consideration of a number of writers helped to shape her own style and vision. She has said in (April 2002) that one learns the...
Occupation
Edna O'Brien
Shortly after her arrival in London, O'Brien attended a public lecture on Hemingway
by Arthur Mizener
, which clarified and further encouraged her desire to write.
Guppy, Shusha et al. “Edna OBrien”. Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, edited by George Plimpton and George Plimpton, Viking, 1989, pp. 337-59.