Better Than Working

"When Patrick Skene Catling was a young boy his father sat him at a desk in his office at Reuters and encouraged him to two-finger type on his old Underwood typewriter. Following his father's advice some years later that writing was 'better than working', he embarked on a lifetime as a writer and journalist. Based at various times in England and the United states, he travelled to Korea , Guatemala, Greenland, the Middle East and Australia covering wars, revolutions and press conferences that could give a man a terrible thirst." "At the same time his writing enabled him to plunge himself into cultural milieux that fascinated him. He interviewed Louis Armstrong and James Baldwin. He encountered Jane Russell and Peggy Lee and was kissed by Billie Holiday. He became a close friend of P. G. Wodehouse." "Better Than Working is a hymn to a vanished era in British and American journalism, as well as being an enjoyable book about a remarkable life."--BOOK JACKET.Catling, Patrick Skene is the author of 'Better Than Working', published 2003 under ISBN 9780758191250 and ISBN 0758191251.