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I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it had an edition in Paris, in 1963. I sold the paper in the streets by day and tore wire copy off the tele-printer for the editors making up the edition by night.

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.