I began writing Letters To My Mother in 1978 when the events that inspired the story – a romance between a 19 year old coed and a biochemistry professor - were fresher in my mind than they are now, more than thirty years later. Because I didn’t own a typewriter, I transcribed the text longhand in a series of notebooks and then in the early eighties, when my employer began installing computer terminals in its programmers’ cubicles, I started entering the text, secretly, on the company’s mainframe. Unknown to me, my first readers were the computer room ope more...
