![]() ![]() ![]() I've been a short story writer, with some forty-fifty stories in McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, etc. I attended local schools and then, being both book-struck and stage-struck, found a college - Allegheny College - where I could satisfy both passions. I began writing very early - poems, plays, stories - and just never quit. I had the benefit, as well, of a wide variety of aunts and uncles and cousins, plus the extended family so common to small town life - the neighbors, friends, teachers, bus drivers, mailmen, local heroes and local neĆ¢er-do-wells, and even a local eat stuff to feed the imagination. I grew up with, and quickly adopted, the notion that reading was the only way to fill up every scrap of loose time you could snatch. My mother, widowed when I was three years old, taught school for forty-nine years in that same small town, and her major (indeed, only) extravagance was books. ![]() I grew up in a southern Ohio river town - Portsmouth - and that small town atmosphere has affected most of my writing. ![]()
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