The Naples News carried an article Bova wrote for readers of his column.
Here is an excerpt:
As I look back on my own career as a writer, that truth shines like the sun. No man is an island. No writer stands alone. We all owe our success, such as it is, to those who taught us, inspired us, helped us understand and persevere.
My first influence was my father. He wasn’t a writer; far from it. My dad spent his life working pressing machines in men’s clothing factories. He taught me that life is what you make of it. He was a happy, optimistic man, despite never going farther from South Philadelphia than the factories in which he worked.
A published author in his own right, Ben Bova maintains his own Web site. A six-time Hugo award winner, Bova was perhaps best known to a generation of science fiction fans as the editor of Analog: Science Fiction - Science Fact and Editorial Director for Omni.
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