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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

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

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

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

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.