Peter Carey: ‘Everybody Else Thought I Was an Advertising Copywriter, but I Knew Who I Was.’
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 06.15.12 | 10:27 AM ET
Novelist and travel author Peter Carey talks with the Globe and Mail about writing, his newest novel and how his career began: “Having read nothing, knowing nothing, I decided in 1962 that writing was what I was going to do. Everybody else thought I was an advertising copywriter, but I knew who I was.”
He adds that life at the ad agency was nothing like “Mad Men.”
Carey’s “Wrong About Japan” was on our list of the 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time.