![]() Since childhood I’ve been an avid reader, everything from Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi adventures to Frank Yerby’s historical romantic sagas. My last two years of teaching were in remedial English-just the nudge I needed to take this writing thing seriously. After that I taught gerontology, sociology, proposal writing for social service agencies and freshman composition at the same university. ![]() Unfortunately, when the history requirement was dropped for incoming students, so was my instructorship. None of my wide variety of jobs satisfied me: cashier for a loan company, public welfare caseworker, assistant circulation manager for a small daily, editor for several “house organ” newspapers, administrator of a federal information program for the elderly.įinally I was offered the opportunity to use my history degrees, teaching in a large urban university in the Northeast. in history from the University of Missouri. Instead, I floundered around during and after receiving my B.A. I didn’t know I was destined to write books. Working my way through college provided great life experiences for a novelist. ![]()
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