![]() “It was boot camp,” Muldrow says of the experience. She landed a job as a junior editor for Golden Books where she occasionally wrote licensed books involving Disney and Barbie characters. ![]() I started to think, well, maybe that is what I should be doing.” At least I had the presence of mind to realize I was doing that. A frequent bookstore visitor, she recalls, “I was still going into the children’s section first. However, she continued to struggle with what she really wanted to do with her life. ”Īfter graduation, Muldrow decided not to pursue a career in magazine publishing, opting instead to perform on New York City’s avant-garde stage as a dancer and as an actor in several one woman monologues, a couple of which she wrote. As a dancer, she says, “I learned a lot about performing, choreography, and thinking. As a journalism student, she learned that every word in an article has to pack a punch. I wanted to be a photojournalist for National Geographic.”Īt Ohio University, Muldrow majored in magazine journalism and dance. By high school, though I had other aspirations. I wrote lots of poems and stories and even a novel in elementary school. Once when she was reading to me, I told her I wanted to write books when I grew up. “When I was very little,” Diane Muldrow says, “all my mother had to do to make me happy was read to me. ![]()
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