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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.
By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.
I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.
I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.