The Books Authors Read | Stephanie Reed

Stephanie Reed lives on the outskirts of Plain City, Ohio, site of a once-thriving Amish community. She gleans ideas for her novels from signs glimpsed along the byways of Ohio, as she did for her previous books, Across the Wide River, The Light Across the River, and The Bargain.

What was your favorite book as a child?

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. All her books, actually.

What book did you read that first made you want to be an author?

The mimeographed book of poems writt...