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| | The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans: Rod McKuen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Hollywood, CA Rod McKuen's first book, An Autumn Came, was published when he was 18. |
 | | "He was one of my motivations," McKuen says, "for getting away from home—that and the fact that I wanted to try to go out and work so that I could send money home to my mother." He kept running away, starting when he was about eight. |
 | | More recently, McKuen has composed orchestral pieces for guitar and harpsichord and an adagio for harp and strings. |
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