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When I was young, I was a voracious reader. I fell in love with the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald in high school, happened upon Dostoyevsky in a bookstore the summer after I graduated from high school, and discovered Proust a year later. These are three of the greatest authors of psychological literary fiction. I also developed an interest in psychoanalysis when I was young. My senior year in high school, my psychology teacher gave me a book by Freud to read, so we could talk about the possibility of him including the book in his course the next year. I read the book, became fascinated by Freud, and by the time I finished undergraduate school, I’d read most of Freud’s major works. When I was a French professor, I taught courses on Proust, as well as other authors of psychological literary fiction, and on Freud—the influence of literature on Freud, and Freud on literature. And when I retired from academe, I finally had the opportunity to write my own psychological literary fiction. It has been quite a voyage, and I intend to replicate that voyage with you.

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