He was editor of the school newspaper for which he wrote a regular column and a serialized mystery story entitled Nehi Bolt after the main character, a wise and rugged small-town Oklahoma sheriff. Writing, however, was still close to his heart. In fifth grade, he fell in love with fiction writing, and vowed that one day, in addition to becoming the greatest professional football player to ever play the game, he would be a writer.īy high school, his professional sports ambitions had dwindled, though he continued playing football on Sunday afternoons on the lawn of the local YMCA. While in grade school, he created two comic strips, Monster Mag and Bush Miller, the latter being the continuing saga of a hapless bush-league baseball player. At seven, when his father landed a job as associate editor of a big city newspaper, he moved to Midwest City, a suburb of Oklahoma City. Tim Tharp was born in Henryetta, Oklahoma, a small town in the eastern part of the state.
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