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Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

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One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.

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People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

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I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

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My mind is always on whatever next project I'm working on.

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I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

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In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.

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There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

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Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.

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This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 20th, 1937

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