![]() ![]() ![]() I not only admired him, I wanted to be Joe Stockdale. My theater professor Joe Stockdale was a major influence on me. “I’ve debated that decision many times over the ensuing years, but all in all it seems that writing was what I was meant to do.” “When a book I wrote in the ’60s, Coffee, Tea or Me?, sat on The New York Times bestseller list for months and spurred a bidding war for motion picture rights, I figured my decision to become a writer was a good one,” he recalls. That’s excellent training for a writer, notes Bain. He also worked in public relations for a while, which he credits with teaching him to think about what the public wants and how to deliver it. That’s a full career for anyone, so you might not realize how many other characters he’s been: officer-in-charge of Armed Forces Radio in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, television personality, radio series writer and producer, nightclub owner, jazz quintet leader, and co-founder, with his wife Renée Paley-Bain, of Hyphenates, a company providing communication and publishing services. ![]() If you check out Donald Bain’s homepage, you’ll find that he’s the author and ghostwriter of more than 115 books, including more than 40 as fictional alter-ego Jessica Fletcher, from Murder, She Wrote. ![]()
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