I believe that writers are born, and I was lucky enough to fall in with parents who provided a fertile literary atmosphere that nurtured my natural desire to write poems and stories. Our house was a mini-library, containing many of the classics, as well as numerous contemporary authors. And the blustery New England winters provided endless opportunity to read the works of Dickens, Twain, Homer, Plato, Socrates, Sinclair Lewis, Hemingway, Steinbeck, The Book of Knowle more...