Interview with Sam Pickering

Abstract

When Sam Pickering was a student in the early '60s at The University of the South (Sewanee), he didn't consider himself a creative writer, certainly not an essayist. That was something other students did. At one point he even considered going into business and becoming a banker. Instead he went on to pursue graduate degrees in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature, specializing in children's literature from that period. He received master's degrees from Cambridge and Princeton universities and a doctorate from Princeton.