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What 10 Year Olds Don't Understand Is the Toil and Agony Along the Way
After reading the Count of Monte Cristo as a 10-year-old he knew he wanted to be a novelist. He went to law school but decided writing wasn't working and became an English professor at Stanford. His teaching was criticized for treating literature as being basically about politics, which is exactly what he was talking about in this interview.