![]() ![]() Q: What educational qualifications do you have? Have you had any formal tuition in creative writing? If so, where and what? Did you find it useful?Ī: I'm the first - but not the last - person in my family to attend university, which is where I went the minute I was 18. ![]() Q:ĝid you enjoy school? What is your most vivid memory of your school years?Ī: Oh, I was so bored! I remember a few thrilling teachers - one who taught grammar using her own home-made rhymes, one who acted his way through Shakespeare and Hardy, and that essential one who said I wrote well and might want to consider some kind of word-related career - but for the most part I was marking time in an academically clever sort of way, doing what had to be done to get free. I'm the only writer in the family - in fact I'm also probably the only dedicated reader - but I see some prospects in the developing generations. Q: How many brothers and sisters do you have? Is anyone else in your family a writer?Ī: I have one highly cherished sister, Pat, who's had a banking career. My parents raised cattle while I played with the dog and fell off the horses. ![]() A: I spent my first 18 years on a thin-soiled, gorgeous, rocky farm just outside the small city of Owen Sound in Ontario, Canada. ![]()
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