AMONG my earliest attempts at fiction was “The Misfit”, a short story about a brilliant, competitive though antisocial and paranoid college student.
The writing was amateurish, but the story was centred around a gimmicky surprise that enabled me to sell it to Aim magazine in 1978: After a climactic confrontation at the end, the principal character is identified as the young Richard M. Nixon.
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