He later served as a government employee until he began writing professionally in his 40s.
He also began writing verse that was dazzling in its stylistic accomplishments and free-thinking in attitude.
As soon as I got home I began writing a screenplay based on this epiphany.
In his spare time, Mr. Barry began writing songs for a doo-wop group he formed called the Tarrytones.
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Along the way, record-store bins bulged with the trio's recordings, and composers began writing pieces for the group.
As a teenager the 27-year-old began writing novels about angst-ridden characters that proved tremendously popular with China's angsty youth.
His partner, Levine, started as a runner, but soon began writing software programs.
Germans have been resisting foreign words ever since they began writing, says Falco Pfalzgraf of the University of London.
He moved to New York and began writing, at first with little success.
That meant that government agencies began writing cheques to the Cherokee nation directly, rather than by making payments through intermediaries.
Later, when she began writing books, she fostered no atmosphere at all other than genteel squalor and heavy drinking and gloom.
After focusing the majority of her energy on family and her day job for years, she finally began writing for herself.
In early 2007, singer and songwriter Daniel Ingala began writing and recording catchy, synth-driven pop music in his New York City apartment.
Almost 30 years ago, using a series of networked Apple II computers, I started doing research and began writing about divergence analysis.
In the late 1990s, to demonstrate how the tech-stock mania had infected the entire nation, he began writing about his plumber's stock-market fascination.
While in London, she desperately missed home-cooked Indian food and began writing letters to her mother asking her how to cook different dishes.
The prisons link is one that dates back to Lane Fox's teenage years, when she began writing to inmates in her spare time.
The Reverend Wilbert Awdry began writing the Thomas stories over 50 years ago after being impressed by a trip to the little railway.
He began writing while attending Dartmouth College, but he left in 1943 to enlist in the Navy, becoming a pilot and flight instructor.
The director began writing his script for a life of Collins in the early 1980s, admitted to taking some liberties with the historical record.
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At the time, the nexus of countercultural life in Vancouver was a weekly called the Georgia Straight, and Watson soon began writing for it.
Abelson began writing Up and Down Wall Street in 1966 and the column became a weekly mainstay of the publication for nearly half a century.
The first was a Russian immigrant, Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, who arrived in the United States in 1926, while in her early twenties, and began writing.
He began writing it in 2003 and, as a poignant endnote to the novel discloses, discussed it with his son, Uri, while he was on military service.
Muto, who worked on Bill O'Reilly's prime-time show, began writing an anonymous column for the Gawker website about what it was like for a liberal to work at Fox.
Two years ago, after the Fed forced interest rates close to zero, I began writing about the dangers lurking in the bond market that were going to favor equities.
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The duo began writing songs when their bands were on the bill of a big rock concert a few years ago, and eventually recorded this album, also called Fiction Family.
Under the name MC Yogi, Mr. Giacomini began writing, recording and selling online yoga-centric rap songs, such as "Be the Change, " a hip-hop telling of the story of Mahatma Gandhi.
Based in Chicago, Illinois, with a journalism background, she began writing her book last fall after losing her job as vice president of a Web site for people facing health crises.
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