![]() But once I got to college and started studying art, my first love-books-came back and grabbed me, so I ended up majoring in English. ![]() I even learned to cut and tie my own double reeds, a tricky task. For a while I wanted to be a concert oboist. When I was a teenager, I played bells in the marching band and oboe in the concert band. For the plays, I would write myself parts like The Glorious Queen and my sister parts like The Quiet Servant Girl. I began writing stories, poems, and plays in grade school. I was already a fan of fairy tales and comedy, so it shouldn't surprise you to hear that my favorite movie when I was a child was Snow White and the Three Stooges. Sometimes we went to the movies at an old theater we called "The Sticky Theater" because there was always soda spilled on the floor. The rest of the time I rode my bike with my sister, Loni, or looked after my little brother and sister. Whenever possible as a child, I read books-books, books, and more books. ![]() I was born in Spokane, Washington, but I spent most of my childhood in Camarillo, California, which is about an hour's drive north of Los Angeles. ![]()
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