Published On: January 12th, 2024Categories: Biography

When I first went off to college, I was enthusiastic about wanting to know why certain people acted in certain ways. I signed up for a bunch of psychology courses because I was finally going to discover the secrets of human behavior. Along with all the psychology, I decided to take a literature course just to change it up a bit. In high school I was not a good reader. I preferred math to reading. But in my senior year English class, we were assigned Nathaniel Hawthorn’s The Scarlet Letter. There, I finally discovered that books were not about words; they were about ideas and feelings. I saw how good writing could paint pictures in my mind. I imagined the big scarlet “A” popping out in bright red on the heroine’s chest because of her adultery. Not a fair way to treat a passionate person—well psychology was going to help me understand all that.

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