"I am a neurologist who started out as a New York writer, mainly poetry, but also wrote some book and TV reviews, and fiction. My current job leaves me less time to create than I would like. I have 2 novels in progress that I am trying to get out of my system and on paper. I grew up with a crazy, NY writer dad, the descendant of prominent, formerly polygamous Idaho Mormons, who was raised in DC and eventually became an avant garde novelist, a journalist and editor at magazines like The New Yorker and LOOK, and a college professor, all with no more than a 7th grade education. Our house guests included such diverse people as Terence Stamp, Norman Mailer and Alger Hiss....."
