I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
“I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.”
“I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.”