Alex Flinn

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I broke with my religion in college.