My\n father, Andrew Jefferson Offutt V, grew up in a log cabin in \nTaylorsville, Ky. The house had 12-inch-thick walls with gun ports to \ndefend against attackers: first Indians, then soldiers during the Civil \nWar. At 12, Dad wrote a novel of the Old West. He taught himself to type\n with the Columbus method \u2014 find it and land on it \u2014 using one finger on\n his left hand and two fingers on his right. Dad typed swiftly and with \ngreat passion. In this fashion, he eventually wrote and published more \nthan 400 books. Two were science fiction and 24 were fantasy, written \nunder his own name; the rest were pornography, using 17 pseudonyms.
interesting.