In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.
In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.
I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.
I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.