Eleanor Henderson

Every writer has a collection of influences — the powerful voices that she lays her tracing paper over, hoping to capture some of their inflections. Sometimes, those voices belong to teachers, and the one that rings most loudly in my ears belongs to Robert Cohen.

In "Influence," ...

Eleanor Henderson discusses her novel, Ten Thousand Saints. It tells the story of a boy named Jude, who was adopted by hippies and spends much of his youth getting high with his best friend, Teddy. But when Teddy dies of an overdose, Jude's relationship with drugs and with his parents sinks to new extremes.