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One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.

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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

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Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.

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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

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I'm a big Stephen King fan.

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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.

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Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.

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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

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For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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