I started writing at the tender age of fifteen, when I lost touch with my father due to difficult circumstances. However, I am blessed to say that I survived those times with the help of my creative writing abilities, which were later recognized by both my honors English teachers and some very reputable English professors. One of them, Dr. Virginia Spencer Carr, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for both The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers and Dos Passos: A Life. Dr. Carr was not only my professor and my mentor, but she was also a very dear friend with whom I shared many visits and