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When I look back over the past half-century, it’s evident that my life has been drenched in literature.

I started early, from the first gravitating toward fiction and poetry.  I devoured the stories of Edgar Allan Poe at age nine or ten, and soon thereafter composed a brief, gruesome collection of tales in desperate emulation of my first literary idol.  (“Couldn’t you write something a bit more .

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. . cheerful?” my mother asked.)  During my teenage years I discovered writers as disparate as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, and Flannery O’Connor; and in poetry, the endlessly fascinating if sometimes incomprehensible Emily Dickinson.  In college and graduate school, thanks to my English and Creative Writing professors, I read the great American writers of the twentieth century, including William Faulkner, John Updike, Philip Roth, Sylvia Plath, and Joyce Carol Oates. 

There was never a time when I didn’t take writing seriously.  My