receiving an MAT from Harvard in 1970, Morrow found work in the Boston area as an instructional media specialist and graphic artist, first in the Newton Public Schools (1971-1973) and then in the Chelmsford Public Schools (1973-1978). Among the curriculum materials he produced during these years were Moviemaking Illustrated: The Comicbook Filmbook (Hayden Book Company, 1973, coauthored with Murray Suid), and Media and Kids: Real World Learning in the Schools (Hayden Book Company, 1977, also coauthored with Murray Suid). From 1971 to 1973, Morrow reunited with high-school filmmaking friends Adamson and Stone to create a 16mm satiric short called “A Political Cartoon”, which tells of a cartoon character who gets elected President of the United States. This 22-minute film was exhibited at the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1974 and ultimately released on VHS by Kino Video as a part of Cartoongate! (1996), a compilation reel of animated shorts. In 1972 Morrow married Jean Pierce, a fellow HGSE graduate. They had two children, Kathleen and Christopher. The couple separated in 1995. Morrow married Kathryn Smith—a bookseller, freelance editor, independent scholar, and occasional critic—in 1996. During the 1980s, Morrow worked as one of the principal writers for the biannual periodical, ‘’A Teacher’s Guide to NOVA’’ (WGBH Educational Foundation). He also became a regular contributor to TV Guide magazine, writing such commentaries as “TV Didn’t Turn Us into Lemmings and Vikings” (October 9, 1982), “Big Brother Isn’t Watching—Yet” (January 28, 1984), “We Need a Nightly News Show on the Nuclear Arms Race” (March 8, 1986), and “The Best Way to Watch TV? Noisily and Together” (April 11, 1987). In 1977, TSR published James Morrow’s murder-mystery board game, Suspicion, which he was inspired to create after seeing the 1974 movie adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. Six years later, Morrow was hired by Circuits and Systems, a New Hampshire firm, to design the graphics and help shape the script for Fortune Builder (1984), a ColecoVision game sometimes regarded as a forerunner to SimCity. Fiction career With the publication of his first novel, The Wine of Violence, in 1981, James Morrow embarked on a full-time career as a writer of comedic but philosophically informed fiction, thus fulfilling the pact he’d made with his tenth-grade self to participate in the universe of ideas opened up to him by James Giordano’s World Literature class. Over the course of the next thirty-four years, Morrow