Best-selling Zimbabwean author Alexander McCall Smith recently spoke with Neeta Dutta of London's Hendon & Finchley Times about humor, being a writer and playing saxophone in The Really Terrible Orchestra:
"'You are born a writer, I have always been one. You know you are one,' he says in an English accent that offers no hint of either his African childhood or his later life in Scotland. 'But I think it is important to have a career in a profession which provides life experience, you cannot write without experience.'"
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Alexander McCall Smith makes his Celebrity Series debut on Thursday, April 20 at John Hancock Hall.
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