Ask the Author: Peter Cavalier
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Peter Cavalier
Commuting via train to and from Manhattan took up a lot of time, some of which I filled by thinking up ideas for a story about my banking career. My first novel, Bank Street, covered only the first three years out of college and in a bank management training program. The time period of the late 1970s was a transformative era in the workplace. Social and cultural upheavals contributed to changes in the workplace, such as the emergence of women in a management career track. Technology was in its nascent stages and developed more rapidly with the dawn of the 1980s, the backdrop for my planned sequel.
Peter Cavalier
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Peter Cavalier
I am currently working on a children's book about baseball and teamwork. The inspiration for the story came from my granddaughter, who was read a book titled "Matt's Mitt" by her father, Matthew. I read that same book to Matthew when he was a child. It was published in 1976 by the late Marilyn Sachs (a wonderful children's author). Sadly. "Matt's Mitt" is no longer in print.
Knowing her grandfather was a writer, Cora instantly figured her Pops could write a book for her about baseball. So, the lesson to be learned is "be careful what you promise a four year old". I am hoping to have the book, titled "Cora's Magical Pink Mitt" self-published by her sixth birthday in November 2022. My illustrator is a talented young artist, Maggie Jelly, who is currently majoring in Fine Arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. We'll see how it turns out.
Knowing her grandfather was a writer, Cora instantly figured her Pops could write a book for her about baseball. So, the lesson to be learned is "be careful what you promise a four year old". I am hoping to have the book, titled "Cora's Magical Pink Mitt" self-published by her sixth birthday in November 2022. My illustrator is a talented young artist, Maggie Jelly, who is currently majoring in Fine Arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. We'll see how it turns out.
Peter Cavalier
I'd become a sportswriter for one of the New York City dailies during the 1950s, the golden age of baseball. New York had three active major league teams (Yankees, Dodgers, Giants) to write about. And the writers traveled with the team by train (before widespread commercial air travel). Some of my journalist heroes: Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Red Smith, Roger Angell, Roger Kahn - were all at the peak of their writing careers during that era.
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