Dalton's clerk at Brookwood Village and in Loveman's advertising department, he got a job as a copy editor for the Birmingham Post-Herald. He also posed as a People magazine writer to get a meeting with Kathryn Tucker Windham.Īfter stints as a B. While working at odd jobs, he tried to crash the set of Stay Hungry posing as a Rolling Stone reporter, but was bounced out. He left the university in 1975, 12 credit hours shy of fulfilling the requirements for his bachelors. After winning $10 in an essay contest and riveting classmates with horror yarns, he graduated Banks High School with the idea that he could succeed as a writer and went on pursue a degree in journalism at the University of Alabama. McCammon, the grandson of furniture dealer Robert Bundy, grew up in East Lake, reading Poe and Lovecraft and watching horror movie previews through his fingers at Roebuck's College Theater.
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