SCOTT DRISCOLL with E.C. MURRAY
/Scott Driscoll, author of Better You Come Home, is an award
winning author, journalist and instructor who has been teaching creative
writing for seventeen years at the University of Washington. Better
You Go Home is the recipient of the Foreword First Debut Novel award. Note a fuller biography at
the end of the interview.http://www.scott-driscoll.com/
At what age did you first determine you wanted to be a writer? Were you living in Seattle?
My first excitement for writing hit when I was in fifth grade. My English
teacher, Mr. Megs, taught a more sophisticated version of grammar than many of
the kids at our suburban school were able to appreciate. I fell in love with
dependent clauses joined by conjunctions. “It hadn’t been my intention to cause
trouble, yet, having earned a reprimand for speaking too loudly anyway, I
decided to go ahead and ask to check out ten books at once, though, when
informed by the librarian…”