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Home / Archive Category: Autobiography

Category Archives: Autobiography

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November 21, 2010Philip NelAutobiography, Film, Harold Lloyd, HumorAnxiety, Autobiography, Film, Harold Lloyd, Humor

When I was about 9 years old, watching television one weekend afternoon, I saw a black-and-white film of a bespectacled man climbing the side of a building.  He ascends a floor, narrowly misses falling, is about to enter the building through the window – then, another man emerges, with a policeman in pursuit, and tells

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Mash-up vs. Purple Crayon

July 30, 2010Philip NelAcademe, Advice, Autobiography, Children's Literature, Innovation, PublishingAcademe, Advice, Autobiography, Children's Literature, Crockett Johnson, Innovation, Life, Publishing3 Comments

Different kinds of scholars, different kinds of scholarship. But many paths to success in academia.

Fortunate Failures; or, How I Became a Scholar of Dr. Seuss

July 23, 2010Philip NelAcademe, Advice, Autobiography, Children's Literature, Failure, Opportunism, Publishing, SeussAcademe, Advice, Autobiography, Failure, Life, Opportunism, Publishing, Rowling, Seuss1 Comment

How a failed book proposal launched a career. Mine. Viva failure!

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