Like Wallace Thurman and Neal Cassady, I was born in Salt Lake City.
I went to the same high school as another Wallace, Wallace Stegner. (and Roseanne Barr as a matter of fact. High School Musical was filmed there-yep, okay. I’ll stop.)
Like both Wallaces, I went on to the University of Utah. And like Thurman, I was a pre-med student while there.
Like Pearl Buck, I spent time abroad as a missionary.
Like Harper Lee I was once an airline reservations agent. Unlike Harper Lee, I didn’t have friends who funded a one-year sabbatical so that I could finally write my lasting literary masterpiece.
Which is why I’m a marketing slave in corporate America, which kind of makes be like Kurt Vonnegut, who worked as a PR man at GE before exploding onto the literary scene.
Like Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor and Margaret Mitchell, I now live in central Georgia. (But yikes, unlike those illustrious southern belles, I hope to live past their average 46 year lifespan. Perhaps Erskine Caldwell, who was born just 20 miles away and lived to age 83, bodes a little better for me.)
What about you? Who shares your biography?
I like this idea.
ReplyDeleteSince your life and mine track pretty closely for the first 20 years or so (separated by a decade), we share the first three writers. Here are my others:
Like Arthur Conan Doyle, I lived in Scotland.
I studied history like David McCullough. I also studied business, but that doesn't appear to be effective training for great writers.
I worked as a copywriter like F. Scott Fitzgerald, David Heller, and James Patterson. I wish I could write as well as Fitzgerald and sell as well as Patterson.
I like to ride a bicycle, much like H. G. Wells.
And, now that I have reached middle age without publishing a book, I hope to publish my novel later in life like Raymond Chandler. Maybe even a detective novel.
Awesome. A great and illustrious list. I had no idea H.G. Wells was a cycling enthusiast:
Delete"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."
-H.G. Wells
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