I tend to choose literary mentors who are somewhat prolific so that I can choose just a couple of titles from their literary buffets. Just a few ideas to choose from: C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Elizabeth Goudge, Flannery O’Connor, Wendell Barry, P.D. Wodehouse, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charlotte Mason, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, Anthony Esolen, James Sire, Dorothy Sayers, T.S. Eliot—just pick one author, steep yourself in his or her writing, and see what impact that has on your reading and on your living.
