The work I was given to do was tedious and I had time on my hands so I used it to write graduate school and earned a Master’s degree in art history. After college, I worked at an advertising agency in New York for a while. I was preparing for my later career without knowing it. A play is very much like a picture book: you select a cast, create costumes and set, then arrange the scenes, building to a climax. I began illustrating the programs and my favorite books or stories I made up myself.Īt college I helped write a musical comedy and acted in lots of plays. We often listened to the radio while working (or while drawing). My sister Becky and I also had many chores and worked hard at them. John Muir was my hero and I decided to be a naturalist when I grew up. I built a stick village in the dirt, kept a nature notebook and wrote and drew in it all day long as I wandered around, examining the environment. Our neighborhood had a few overgrown vacant lots, one of them with a big fallen tree. My sister was only 16 months younger and a great playmate and coconspirator. I loved to read and began thinking of the world in terms of stories.
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