I was a UCLA history major when I called Grant Tinker's office from a Murphy Hall pay phone after class one day in 1974. He had good news for me. That's when my swerve began.
I swerved from sitcom to historical fiction. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 5th Season 1975 to THE WOMAN WHO LOVED JOHN WILKES BOOTH (GP Putnam 1978) Mary Richards to Mary Surratt. What a swerve.