wayne yang
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I grew up in South Carolina, where I learned to eat grits the proper way: smothered with butter and sprinkled with salt. You can imagine my horror when I went to graduate school in upstate New York and saw people eating their grits with milk and sugar.

I am inspired by those who move freely back and forth between the left- and right-brain worlds.

·         T.S. Eliot, banker / poet

·         Wallace Stevens, insurance executive / poet

·         Walker Evans, bank clerk turned photographer

·         Andre Kertesz, bank clerk turned photographer

·         Sebastiao Salgado, economist turned photographer

·         Otto Neurath, economist / graphic designer (founder of isotypes)

·         Edward Tufte, political economist / graphic designer

·         John Maynard Keynes, economist and member of the Bloomsbury group

My writing and photography have appeared in The North American Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The Asian Review of Books, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, AOL.com, ESPN.com and other publications. I am a former associate editor at literary magazine Night Train. My photography is represented by ZUMAPress and WireImage.

Sue Henderson interviews Wayne.

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