I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.
I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.
I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.
I'm a New Yorker, and I live in the country.
A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
I might just not be a big-city bug.
I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.
I just keep to myself and live in the country and visit the cities.
When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.
My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.
I used to live next door to a farm, so every day for awhile, I used to walk over and fed the cows, when I was in school. This was weird because I lived in sort of a subdivision, but this one holdout in our neighborhood in Kansas still had a farm.
I may live in London, but I'll go back to the country one day. My dad's an architect, so I would like him to design me a house. I'd love to be in the countryside when I'm older.
If I could afford it, I'd buy 1,000 acres and put my house right dead-center.
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.
I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.
I live in a cottage and volunteer in the village shop.
I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.
