where he has eaten whatever has been served ... and survived disastrous mishaps."
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Cahill was transplanted to more northerly terrain by his parents at an early age; he would spend most of his youth in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He got bit by the writing bug even before the travel bug found him; as Cahill told interviewer David Petersen in Bloomsbury Review: "I secretly bought Writer's Digest the way some people buy pornography. I didn't want people to know I had writing aspirations--because I might fail." After graduating from high school, Cahill enrolled in classes at the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually earned a B.A. in European intellectual history. He then gave law school a trial run, but he knew it wasn't for him; after a semester or so he left the world of torts and malfeasance for San Francisco State, and was awarded his M.A. in creative writing a few years later.
From Lifeguard to Journalist
While he was attending college, Cahill took odd jobs working as a lifeguard, longshoreman, warehouse worker--anything to keep the tuition paid. After graduation, and with a masters degree under his belt, he decided to get a job where he could use less brawn and more brains: he found it at the San Francisco office of Rolling Stone magazine, where he signed on as an associate editor and staff writer in 1971.
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