... of the working-class, moved their family to the North, where there were better opportunities, so that Chloe and her siblings could live a life free of the racial prejudices that living in the South promised. When she was a child, between her father, a proud hard-working man, and her ... reading works from many different writers, her early favorites being the Russian authors Lev Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, French writer Gustave Flaubert, and English novelist Jane Austen. One of her greatest influences, though, is the American writer William Faulkner. When Chloe was 18, after graduating ...

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