What, Why, How: Charles Salzberg

What:

I write. I started my first novel when I was 12. It was a roman a clef (although I certainly did not know what that term meant at the time) about a sleepaway summer camp. I had recently learned how to touch type, a class I had to take in school in order to be allowed to skip a grade (to this day I maintain it was the best class I ever took), and I made it to three single-space pages before I ran out of things to say. Not long ago, I moved and I actually found that artifact. It’s in a dr...