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Ivan attended Buckley and The Hill School. Then he spent a year doing A Levels in English and Physics at Lancing College in Sussex, England, and attended Boston University, years before he turned to writing as a career.

In his words

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“I started writing professionally late in life. In this, I was luckier than most. Had I started any sooner, I would not have gained the experience or the maturity to write the way I do and on the subjects I like to write about. I also believe that few know their true gifts from an early age. When I married Mary Jo, she had a language translation company that catered to corporate clients. She needed to showcase her translations while I needed a job. It was a perfect match. She had me write articles of approximately two thousand words on subjects as diverse as linguistics, economics, genetics, finance, and history. I may have always had a writing talent, but what turned me into a professional were the deadlines imposed and the translation editors that my articles had to go through to be accepted. At the beginning, they required significant corrections. Through theirs and Mary Jo’s efforts, I improved, and my thoughts, which had been all over the place, acquired a clarity and precision they never had before.”

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