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David Solbach

Retired carpenter and jazz musician turned novelist in Western Oregon, author of In the Shadow of the Plague and First There Was Music.

Sep 19, 2026

7:15
But what prompted you to start writing and to start like documented and putting these memoirs out into the world?
7:25
Well, as I said, I went off to college as a music major.
7:28
By the end of my freshman year, I was much more interested in history, philosophy, literature.
7:34
People over there seemed more interesting than people in the music department.
7:38
At that point, I really got into the liberal arts world.
7:43
And by the time I graduated, I decided it was going to be a great novelist.
7:48
I didn't know how I was going to do it, but I was going to do it by going.

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