MEET DARYL POTTER
“What do you want to be when you grow up?" I knew I wanted to be a writer when I was ten years old. Growing up homeschooled in a rural community, in an era before the internet, and without even a television in the house, I used to travel 10 miles by bicycle to the nearest library where I started with authors whose last names began with A and worked my way to Z. When I needed a break from books, I read the library's magazines—everything from Life, Time, and Newsweek, to Field and Stream, Car and Driver, GQ, and Cosmopolitan …