My clock radio wakes me up every morning at 6:35 ET to listen to the 5-minute program. I'm always amazed at the biographies of some famous writers. For example, check out Quentin Tarantino (
"He scored above 150 on an IQ test in high school, but he hated school so much that he dropped out after ninth grade. He got a job as an usher at a porn house, and in his spare time, he wrote screenplays of movies he'd already seen from memory") and Henrik Ibsen (
"He left home at age 16 and cut off communication with his family. He fathered an illegitimate child with a young servant girl, and to support them, he started to write.")
If you click on this link after today, Friday, March 27 you'll have to find it in the archives:
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
