Having long been drawn to the social and creative energy of the city, it would become home, and the place where he would find success as a writer. Without the devotion to craft I developed then, I probably wouldn’t have been disciplined enough to continue writing.īorn in London and raised in rural Wales, Van Booy moved to New York City via Athens. During those years, he took jobs that gave him “the space to write” while “reading and writing with great voracity.” “Stories,” he believes, “are crucial, because they help people understand what has happened to them.” But writing and earning a living writing are two very different pursuits, and it would be almost a decade before he achieved the latter. A dozen or so years ago, while living in a cottage in the woods with limited electricity and no heat, Simon Van Booy arrived with certainty at the realization that he wanted to be a writer - that writing was what he was most capable of doing.
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