"I've bounced around a bit," the 33-year-old former advertising writer and college teacher said.

He left to work in the 1950s as an advertising writer for Time and Look magazines.

As an advertising writer and producer, he wrote the original radio commercials for Woodstock.

A sprinkling of advertising writers from other publications also attended.

As a young advertising writer, I was assigned to find a way to freshen the appeal of a major aspirin brand.

If he could, he would have been an advertising writer instead of a novelist.

But to find a very fine actor who can play a simple advertising writer is a very, very tough thing.

An advertising writer, he's energetic, articulate and presumably just the sort of person Labour say they want to recruit.

"That's because I literally do it all the time," said the 54-year-old advertising writer whose passion and hobby is the traditional art of whittling.

Robert Shallcross is an American advertising writer and film maker.