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I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

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

I was a drama major through college.

I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.