US novelist.
"He wrote "Picture Palace," 1978 and a best-selling travel yarn "Kingdom by the Sea," 1983."
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
I should have worked just long enough to discover that I didn't like it.
"The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter."