Haugaard, whose father was a respected scientist, grew up in Copenhagen with an older brother and another one seven years his junior in a permissive household that encouraged creative pursuits. He remembers his hometown along Baltic Sea as a quaint port city still mired in the airs of the previous century.
The author also recalls a deep dislike of school from the start; for some years, his only friend there was the sole other student from an affluent family, and their teacher favored them at the expense of the others. She was particularly unkind to a pair of orphans in the class. "Still I am grateful to her; inadvertently she taught me how repulsive snobbery is," Haugaard wrote in the Something about the Author Autobiography Series (SAAS) Haugaard exhibited a literary imagination at an early age; he concocted stories even before he could read, which he called "self" stories to distinguish them from the ones his parents read aloud to him from books, and after crossing the literacy threshold himself he spent hours late into the night reading in bed with a flashlight.
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