Sebastian Junger, journalist and author of The Perfect Storm

Diane Osen, freelance author and editor of The Book That Changed My Life

Janet Evanovich, best-selling author of To the Nines

Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections, winner of the National Book Award

David Levering Lewis, National Book Award finalist and author of the two-volume biography W.E.B. Du Bois

What book changed your life?
'Continental Bookshelf' poses the question to five authors

October 2003 - Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life. We asked authors to discuss their own memorable choices.

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Interested in the many ways the experience of reading shapes the act of writing? Look for The Book That Changed My Life: Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists, edited by Diane Osen, in paperback from Modern Library. Profits from the sale of this book benefit the National Book Foundation.