Duffield went on to join the John Oxley set-up and later turned freelance.
That was probably the main incentive for my turning freelance as a feature writer for a year or two before I ended up in London.
Born Joan Kramer in Brooklyn, Mrs. Stoliar graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1950 and worked as an art director at various publications before turning freelance.
Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
Around 2000, he turned freelance and edited the newly revived City gossip column Blackfriar, until the owner of Express Newspapers, Richard Desmond, axed the column as part of a cost-cutting exercise.
Three years later, I wangled a spot in "Nonfiction Workshop," a class taught by William Zinsser, a New York City newspaperman turned freelance magazine writer who had reinvented himself as a teacher of writing.
'The only time one hears news of whale meat selling out is when it is given away for free in whale soup at some event,' Junko Sakuma, a former Greenpeace official turned freelance writer, said.
For close to three decades, Aubrey Reuben, a seventy-year-old high-school Spanish teacher turned freelance photographer, has brought his mercurial presence and automatic-focus camera to just about every opening-night party, testimonial dinner, and benefit gala in town.
By Adam Green For close to three decades, Aubrey Reuben, a seventy-year-old high-school Spanish teacher turned freelance photographer, has brought his mercurial presence and automatic-focus camera to just about every opening-night party, testimonial dinner, and benefit gala in town.
