Howard Zinn is Professor Emeritus of History at Boston University. He is the author of many books, including the widely-used text A People's History of the United States. His most recent book is The Zinn Reader, a collection of his writings. "Books that influenced me as I was growing up:" Boston, by Upton Sinclair (his novel about the Sacco and Vanzetti case) The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Remarque Catch-22, by Joseph Heller Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell Living My Life, Volume 1 and Volume 2, by Emma Goldman Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, by Alexander Berkman Revolutionary Pamphlets, by Peter Kropotkin The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx One-Dimensional Man, by Herbert Marcuse Hard Times, by Charles Dickens Manufacturing Consent, by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky The Bending Cross, by Ray Ginger (a biography of Eugene Debs) Knowledge for What?, by Robert Lynd The Way of Zen, Alan Watts Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu, in Arthur Waley's translation, The Way and Its Power Black Boy, by Richard Wright The American Political Tradition, by Richard Hofstadter An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, by Charles Beard The Making of the English Working Class, by E.P. Thompson The Rebel, by Albert Camus The Yogi and the Commissar, by Arthur Koestler American Labor Struggles, by Samuel Yellen One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fontamara, by Ignazio Silone Return to the Writers Read List

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