By Trueman's own account, as he noted on his Web site, he "wasn't an exceptional student" as a youth. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle, earning a B.A. in 1971. While still in college, he married for the first time. A typical child of the 1960s, Trueman "went to college to avoid going to Vietnam," as he commented on his Web site. "I protested the war, recreated chemically and otherwise, and took myself way too seriously." Out of college, he taught in Australia for two years, then returned to the Pacific Northwest, earning an M.A. in psychology in 1975, and beginning work on a doctorate in 1980.
During this period he was a therapist in a mental health center, but also wrote poetry. "In the early 1970s, I sent out lots of poems, most of which embarrass me now, to lots of 'little' magazines with circulations of about twenty 'readers,'" Trueman remarked on his Web site. "Most of these little magazines ended up in the hands of the grandmothers and great-aunties of precious little genius[es] like myself, who were published in them." Trueman ironically noted that the only positive critical attention he received in the first twenty-five years of his writing career came from his grandmother, who complimented him on the penmanship in a short story he showed her, and from the decision of a co-ed to embroider a line from one of his poems on her pillow.
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