remember i said to christina one time before we were married. very core. things which. i said i think i'm going to try to be a writer this is sixty. sixty and she said that's a good idea. maybe. then used. books and that's exactly what we've. during that time he's written seven novels five short story collections and a memoir and become world famous his best known character is named frank bascombe he first turned up in the sports writer in one nine hundred eighty six back then bascom was a divorced failed writer in his late thirty's he became the hero actually the antihero of three further books bascom changed careers battled cancer and fought about life and the state of the nation his observations were ironic mechanic and