Anna Sherman was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied Greek and Latin at Wellesley College and at Lincoln College, Oxford. The Bells of Old Tokyo is her first book.

• Sanshiro by Natsume Sōseki

• Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry

• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

You can follow Anna on twitter @anna_charlbury

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