![]() 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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