Literature had finally come alive for me." He read John Steinbeck, Albert Camus, Emile Zola, Fedor Dostoyevsky, and other standard-bearers of Western literature, and as he did so his writing also improved. When an essay on e. e. cummings earned him an A and also won $25 for a school essay contest, Gallo was converted. "Although my spelling was still quite poor, my writing career began at that point," Gallo once said.
Involved in religious issues and training from his teenage years, Gallo intended to attend a seminary after graduating from college; instead he went to Oberlin College where he earned a masters and a teaching certificate. Thereafter he took a teaching position in Westport, Connecticut, "one of the nation's best school systems back in the 1960s." In a sense, he received on- the-job training not only in teaching, but also in writing, for he edited a newsletter for the local education association, served as advisor to the school's literary magazine, and also kept one step ahead of his precocious students, daughters and sons of famous writers, editors, broadcast journalists, and company executives.
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