“But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.”
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When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.
I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.