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My master's degree was in English literature.

In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I'd never even suspected. By 1998, I'd have my Ph.D.

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.