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Alan Theodore
I was born in New York Citry but grew up in a suburban community on Long Island.
In elementary and high school,my interests were history and English. Started reading the novels of Charles Dickens w...view moreI was born in New York Citry but grew up in a suburban community on Long Island.
In elementary and high school,my interests were history and English. Started reading the novels of Charles Dickens when I was twelve and through the years I've read most of them.
In the army during WWII but never got overseas. After the war I attended NYU , studying marketing and journalism After graduating, I worked for three years in Washington as a feature writer for the U.S. Information Agency which had been formed to counter Soviet propaganda during the cold war. Among the variety of my assignments was writing the script for a graphic novel titled "Red star Over Islam" which described Soviet infringment
on the practice of religion in the Soviet central Asian republics, and a scholarly monograph on the economy of the Peoples Republic of North Korra.
After three years in this job, I returned to New York. working for the remainder of my career as a copywriter,later copy chief, for ad agencies with pharmaceutical and healthcare accounts. During this period, I developed and presented a course in medical copywriting
at the NYU School of Continuing Education. And, as a freelance assignment from Chelsea House Publishers, I wrote a volume for their Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs","The Origins and Sources of Drugs." When my wife and I moved to the mid-Hudson valley, we participated in the founding of the Lifetime Learning Institute at Bard College and we both presented courses there.
I was a regular conributor to JOSLINS JAZZ JOURNAL and THE SIDNEY BECHET QUARTERLY of articles on jazz and pre-rock popular music.
I am married to Harriet Hoffman , a retired psychotherapist, and I am the father of a grownson and daughter from a previous marriage.view less