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Steve Weinberg
The anxiety of the blank page. Where do I begin? I suppose at the beginning.
I was born on December 12, 1985, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb outside of Philadelphia. I went to a diverse, p...view moreThe anxiety of the blank page. Where do I begin? I suppose at the beginning.
I was born on December 12, 1985, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb outside of Philadelphia. I went to a diverse, public high school known as Cheltenham High School. My affinity for literature began there. I was one of those students who reads Catcher in the Rye and believes that he is living a parallel life to Holden Caulfield.
The Catcher in the Rye, though, stopped being my favorite book shortly into college. I attended Carnegie Mellon University, where I majored in English and History, and minored in Philosophy. While in college, I discovered existential literature, specifically the writings of Kafka, Camus, and Dostoevsky.
When I graduated college in 2008, one of my immediate goals was to write a novel. It bothered me that I had spent my college years adulating other writers but had not produced anything of my own. I took a trip to Israel that summer on Birthright. I recall having tremendous anxiety during the trip, and the only method of calming down my mind was to think of ideas for a novel. After not more than a few hours of thinking, I stumbled on an idea. I would write a semi-autobiographical novel based on my college semester abroad in the South of France.
I took a year off after college and wrote the first draft of the novel, titled The Test. I then began law school at Temple University in 2009. Throughout my three years of law school, in addition to constant studying, I fine-tuned my novel, at last finishing it at the age of 26.
After law school, I began working at a law firm in Philadelphia. When time would allow, I wrote the lengthy short story, "The Coronation of Napoleon I."
I then chose to take a break from law to teach English in Israel. For the 2014-15 school year, I worked in an elementary school in Be'er Sheva, Israel, teaching the English language and American culture to Israeli schoolchildren.
I do not know where I will be in five years, or even five months. I hope that I continue to publish on Smashwords, and that the next biography of me will be significantly longer than this one, more expensive, and written by someone other than myself.view less
Books by Steve Weinberg
The Test The Coronation of Napoleon I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings