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My Biography

 

Here are photos from my middle and high school years:

 

 

 

3I don't know if everyone goes through an awkward stage, but this was early in mine: 7th grade. 

Seventh and eighth grades were very difficult for me. My family was large, and our finances were on the decline. I went to four different middle schools in two years as we kept looking for more affordable housing. Fortunately, our financial situation stabilized by the time I entered high school.

 

4This is my press card from Catalina High School in Tucson, Arizona. By the time I was a freshman in high school, I wanted nothing more than to be a writer. I thought the best way to go about this was to become a journalist. So I took journalism courses in high school and began writing for the award-winning CHS newspaper. 

 

 

 

 

 
3 I even wrote a humor column in my sophomore year. Unfortunately, it wasn't very funny. But it gave me experience in writing for deadline...not always a fun job. By the time I graduated from high school I wasn't sure I wanted to be a journalist anymore. I did want to write, but I wanted to write books.
 

4This is my senior class picture at McClintock High School in Tempe, Arizona (where I finished the last two years of school). Although you wouldn't know it to look at me now, I weighed 120 pounds at graduation and, like Ronald Regan, used Brylcreem in my hair.

 
 

 

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