I was born and raised in New York City. I began reading at a very early age, having pretty much exhausted my school's children's book section of the library by the time I was in the first grade. I began to move up in books, actually finishing Judy Blume's "Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing" by the third grade.
When I finished high school and went to Boston University for college, I naturally decided to be an English Major. What could be better, getting to read a lot and write about what I read? The fact that I only had to take one math class to fulfill my math requirement for that major also was a big factor.
After I graduated college, I started working at a job that allowed me to do a lot of reading: working at a Barnes & Noble. The employee discount I received there was both a good and bad thing. It was good because I was able to get a lot of books I otherwise wouldn't have bought before. It was bad because I had to resist the urge to just hand over my paycheck for books.
During the time I was at Barnes & Noble, I broadened my range of reading, trying many different genres. When I was in high school, I'd mostly read science fiction and fantasy, (in a related note, I did not date at all in high school) and college, I had little time to read save for my assigned English novels. I began trying a lot of new authors that I might not tried before.
Currently, I have a wide-array of favorite writers, with this brief list of some of the top ones on my list, in alphabetical order: David Baldacci, Dave Barry, Lawrence Block, Lee Child, Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler, Jack Higgins, John Irving, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Robert Ludlum, Robert B. Parker, and Stuart Woods.
