Yet his fans think Shortz has a great deal of substance.
Since my undergraduate degree was in enigmatology, which no one really takes seriously, my law degree from the University of Virginia gave me a substance that I wouldn’t have had otherwise.” I’m essentially a freelance person so that helped me in many ways. I also learned how the world works and how business works. That’s good training for puzzles and it’s good training for life.
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“The greatest benefit of Law School to me,” he says, “was to learn how to take apart a complex issue and deal with each part separately until you’ve solved it. at the Law School and ultimately used his legal training to develop the business savvy for pursuing a freelance career (not to mention hone his puzzling skills). Following the lead of his older brother who had become a lawyer, he earned his J.D. They accepted his proposal he now holds the world’s first and only degree in enigmatology (as far as Shortz can tell). He proposed to the administration at Indiana University a degree and sketched out course requirements for a historical and analytical study of puzzling. He sold his first crossword puzzle when he was 14 and went to college determined to parlay his passion into a bachelor’s degree. In fact, he’s been happy about it ever since, pursuing a passion that has taken him to the highest perch in the puzzling world. She showed him how to interlock words within the squares and he was happy doing so all afternoon. Will Shortz ’77, the New York Times crossword puzzle editor since 1993 and Puzzle Master of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition since the program first aired in 1987, has been transfixed by puzzles since he was young boy when his mother gave Shortz a piece of paper ruled into squares. QUITE LITERALLY, LAWYERS are only as good as their words, so it should come as no surprise that a Law School graduate is the world’s foremost authority on the venerable crossword puzzle first introduced in this country in 1913. Will Shortz surrounded by his collection of
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