This is me in front of my Normandy 'weekend' house, with my faithful companion, 'Snuffler', a keen rabbiter. I hate mowing the lawn, so I had gravel put down instead ;-9 (That's why Snuffler looks a bit puzzled in the photo...) Good for landing the helicopter too! I used to work in Higher Edukation, but after the unexpected and phenomenal success of the 101 Problems (two and a half million problems sold/ many more solved) I became a 'famous author' instead. And what a life it is! Yachts, dinner parties, foreign trips with plenty of occasions to speak down to people - I love it!
ps. Very little of this is true. But then the point of books is to 'transcend' both this world - and their authors.