Where did you learn to write?
I had very good high school English classes. In particular,
Mrs. Hoag's 9th-grade English class really firmly planted English grammar rules into
my head. (Thank you, Mrs. Hoag!)
Lots of the people who went to my high school have written books.
Many of them are academic books like Charles Ives: The Idea Behind the
Man, but
Iris Chang, the sadly departed
author of The Rape of Nanking, went to my high school. (I didn't know
her.)
Fred Marx, co-director of the award-winning Hoop Dreams also went to my
high school. (I did know him, but not from high school.)
Is it true that you shaved your head?
Yep. See What
I Learned by Shaving My Head.
Is it true that you wore a duck on your head to your college
graduation?
Yes -- but it wasn't my fault! See
A Duck on the
Mortarboard.