"I went to college in Indiana and then England, and I was a soldier in Germany - a chaplain's assistant in Stuttgart - ghost-writing sermons and hearing more confessions than the clergy. Living easy lives through tranquil times novels are the biographies of survivors. The freedoms and choices prematurely imposed upon young people today have created an entire literature for them. When I was young, we were never more than five minutes from the nearest adult, and that solved most of the problems I write about for a later But Decatur returned to haunt me, becoming the "Bluff City" of my four novels starring Alexander Armsworth and Blossom Culp. My mother read to me before I could read to myself, and so I dreamed from the start of being a writer in New "I spent the first eighteen years of my life in Decatur, Illinois, a middle-American town in a time when teenagers were considered guilty until proven innocent, which is fair enough.
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