My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.
I had a wonderful and very successful career in New York and had the privilege of working with some of the best editors and publishers in the business.
I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.
I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice as difficult as writing either history or fiction.
You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
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