Literary influences include many different and diverse mythologies such as Greek, Norse, Celtic, pre Columbus, African, Asian , Caribbean among others. You can find the the Arthurian cycle; Greek, Roman, Egyptian, pre-Colombian and Caribbean myths and humankind's first epics, dating back to prehistory, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, the Popol Vuh, the Odyssey, and The Bible among other things. other influences Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Virginia Woolf, C.S.Lewis, Shana Abe, Nora Roberts, Danielle Steele, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jean Rhys, Bell Hooks, Edmund Spenser, Dante, Christopher Marlowe, D.W Lawrence, T.E Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Tolkien Maya Angelou , Daphne du Maurier, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and many others