A. Craig Copetas is a dual national Greek-American journalist. Early life and education Copetas attended Upper St. Clair High School in Pittsburgh, where he was a writer on the school's newspaper, The St. Clairion. He also played in the band Karl Ottoman & the Empires. He had various summer jobs which included laying natural gas pipelines in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia and clerking at law firm Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott. This led to him becoming a researcher on The Scranton Commission on Campus Unrest in the summer of 1970, directly in the wake of the Kent State and Jackson State massacres in May 1970. Between 1969 and 1972, he studied journalism, history and, under the tutelage of the celebrated American poet Stanley Plumly, creative writing at Ohio University as a Cutler College Honors Program student. The program arranged for Copetas to spend his senior year at The University of East Anglia (UK), where he studied political and Russian history. During this time, he got to know fellow UEA student Ian McEwan, and also the American Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs. Marriage and children He is married and has two sons with Marie-Céline Girard, a French television producer, the director of admissions at the Paris-based film school EICAR and the daughter of the Academy Award-winning French film producer Roland Girard whose 1978 film Madame Rosa / Le Vie Devant Soi won the 1978 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the French actress Virginie (Dupuis) Vitry. Career Copetas began his journalism career in 1973 at the London bureau of Rolling Stone. "He was a cocksure American fresh from J school," said RS bureau chief Andrew Bailey, who hired Copetas as a reporter after being introduced to him by Tony Elliott. During his time at Rolling Stone Magazine, he shared a house on Stoneleigh Street with fellow employees such as Lanny Aldrich, who at the time managed Rolling Stone's Straight Arrow Books distribution joint-venture Quick Fox in Europe, and later became a literary agent and author of "The Western Art of Charles M. Russell" and "Mallorca, The Art of Living". Visitors to the house on Stoneleigh Street included Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, British filmmaker Peter Whitehead and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter They frequented the nearby Julie's Wine Bar, socialising with neighbours such as Sally Moore and the (then aspiring) photographer Richard Young who at that time