"When you write novels you hope young people will read, you do well never to invoke that fatal phrase: 'When I was your age....' However, give me a moment."1
April 5, 1934. Born in Decatur, Illinois "in middle Middle America."2
"The neighborhood is any kid's first nation, and we lived on the border. It was the white frame house on the corner where Dennis Avenue ends at Fairview Park. I spent eighteen years growing up there.
"In a neighborhood where other people's fathers went off to offices every morning in white collars and Plymouth sedans, my dad was apt to roar away astride a Harley-Davidson. Like the teenagers, he'd also gone scrounging in the junkyard and found an historic 1928 Packard coupe to drive to work. It was the size of a Sherman tank, but louder. It cornered like an aircraft carrier and had a rumble seat, and it loomed large among the Plymouth sedans.
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