Alan Furst
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Alan Furst was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. An only child with older parents he wandered alone or with friends around New York and learned to love the city and its people. He attended Oberlin College mistakenly majoring in English too late discovering anthropology the proper major for a writer.
After graduating he drove a taxi in New York and wrote poetry eventually finding work as a teaching assistant in English at the Pennsylvania State University which led to an MA a never-to-be-finished PhD and a Fulbright teaching fellowship at the Université de Montpellier in southern France.Returning to America he went to Seattle wanting to be away from the East Coast.
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