To be honest, I began writing because I wanted attention. I was a precocious six-year-old, reading at a level above the other kids in first grade, and when I managed to write a funny story – it would have been no longer than three or four sentences back then – the freckled, pig-tailed girl in […]
I was lying on my back, deathly ill, in Kathmandu, Nepal. I had contracted a rather devious strain of the Asian flu. My fever came and went. My body was weak and my mind, fuzzy. I slid to the furthest side of the bed. The day’s last ray of sunlight warmed my face. I looked […]
Warren Adler talks ageism and staying in the creative ballgame in an exclusive interview with Pfizer for their popular GET OLD campaign At 87, the author of more than 50 novels, including the 1981 tumultous divorce classic, The War of the Roses(which he adapted into a screenplay of the same name, and the 1989 film […]
I didn’t know how to socialize well. It was just easier to create worlds of my own where I was cool and heroic. Before I could even write well I was making up stories with my toy cars. Back then there were no toy spaceships so I used hairbrushes, building blocks, and my harmonica. At […]
Growing up in the 1920s in a Taiwanese farming village, Grandma was destined to work in the rice fields for life. When I was four and started to learn Chinese phonetic symbols, Grandma asked me to tutor her. I taught her everything I knew. After a hard day’s work, she slouched over her antique Singer […]
It is odd to say that I decided to be a poet because I was born with two different colored legs: one dark, one light. But this birthmark became my lure to language, and later the very soul of my identity. When I was old enough to understand that I was different, I became aware […]
When I was growing up, reading gave me access to faraway worlds, intriguing characters and suspenseful plots. Today, writing does. As a journalist, I’ve peered into subcultures, met brilliant minds and collected casts of characters that could fill volumes. I’ve learned about the strange world of worm farm schemes; met with a hit man hired […]
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