After recently reading an article about characters in fiction, I started thinking about some of my favorites: memorable folks from books read in the past and some more current, but ones I already know to be unforgettable favorites from now on.
From years past, a few I must include: all-time favorite Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird), Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre), Francie Nolan (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Jonathan Ferrier (Testimony of Two Men), Abraham Lincoln (William Safire's Freedom), Conor Larkin (Trinity), Jean Valjean (Les Miserables), Huw Morgan (How Green Was My Valley), Douglas Spaulding (Dandelion Wine), Jo (Little Women), Harriet Delvaney (Menfreya in the Morning), Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch (Snow in August) Hod Pierce (The Enduring Hills), John Galt (Atlas Shrugged)--and, yes, I'll admit it: Rhett Butler from Gone With the Wind). And many, many more!
More recently, I know I'll not forget Aibileen and Minny (The Help), Father Tim (Jan Karon's Mitford Years novels), Johnny Merrimon (The Last Child), "June Bug," (June Bug), Will Mullet (Levi's Will), Amir (The Kite Runner), Odd Thomas (the Dean Koontz novels featuring that character), and "Trixie" (Dean Koontz's A Big Little Life: Memoir of a Joyful Dog [non-fiction]). Too many others to name!
Surely you have favorites, too. I'd love to hear what they are!
BJ
