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Harry Mathews
 
Date of birth: 14 February 1930
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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" After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half. "

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" And because I had been to France and already fallen in love with France, quite irrationally (unless I'd lived an earlier life there), we decided to move there. "

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" And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't. "

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" And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. "

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" As for characters, I think that very little is needed. You just give a hint and the reader will make up the character on his or her own. "

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" But I soon learned that this was an absolute dead-end street: I would always be an American. And once I realized this, life became a joy. "

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" But what I love most is storytelling. "

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" I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. "

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" I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old. "

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" I have to say my initial attraction to France, which happened on my first visit when I was a student at eighteen, was inexplicable. "

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" I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952. "

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" I love teaching. "

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" I think situations are more important than plot and character. "

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" I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing. "

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" I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another. "

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