Charles Joseph Albert 

My literary heroes have been evolving since I was a kid-probably like everyone else. As best as I can recall, the progression was: Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, Agatha Christie, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, Jane Austen, Ray Bradbury, Robert Frost, Orson Card, Henry James, Fyodor Dosteovsky, Mark Twain, John Irving, Charles Dickens, Jonathan Franzen, Donna Tartt, John Steinbeck, J Rowling, David McCullough, Margaret Atwood, Marcel Pagnol, Thomas Hardy, Billie Collins, and Bill Bryson. I think George Saunders may be my new obsession.  

Here are two interviews: one from 2018 with Magnolia Review and another from 2021 with the MD Neu Review.