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I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

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I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

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I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

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And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

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After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 14th, 1930

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