I grew up in a family of educators so, as early as I can recall, I was reading under a coconut tree or around the kerosene lamp at night before falling asleep with a book in my hands. Fortunately, in those days Literature was studying the Classics: Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Bronte Sisters, Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, Shelly & Keats, Jonathon Swift and others.