Part one of term paper
Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 2, 1943. His father was a salesman while his mother was a nurse. They both had ideas for their son, Peter, as for what they wanted him to become. All Straub wanted to do though, at the age of 5, was learn to read. Kindergarten was a bore for Peter; cutting shapes out of construction ...

Part two of term paper
... In a June 4, 1993 article in The Washington Times, Straub looked back on this experience; “The grille of an automatic was coming toward me with what seemed terrific slowness. I was absolutely unable to move. I knew that the car was going to hit me. This certainly existed entirely apart from my terror. It was like knowing the answer to the most important question on the test. The car was going to hit me, and I was going to die.”2 Along with his year in a wheelchair, he developed certain emo ...