Early Life
Sawyer was born in Miami, Florida. His parents were Robert Wolworth Sawyer and Merline Thompson Sawyer who emigrated to Floridafrom Nassau, Bahamas. He graduated from the Booker T. Washington High School in Miami.
Sawyer was a United States World War II veteran. After his separation from the military he attended New York University where he studied English and Drama, majoring in creative writing. He spent two additional years of study at the Lajos Egri's School of Writing in New York, where he studied advance creative writing.
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