Paul Petersen - College Education and Authorship

College Education and Authorship

After his years as a child actor, Petersen returned to the university and obtained a degree in literature that helped him to write sixteen adventure novels.

Petersen's authorship began after he met David Oliphant, a New York publisher visiting Los Angeles. His first novel concerned car racing. Thereafter, he created a Matt Helm-type hero, Eric Saveman, also known as "The Smuggler." In one year, Pocket Books published eight of his Smuggler novels, earning Petersen $75,000.

In 1977 Petersen's autobiography, Walt, Mickey and Me: Confessions of the First Ex-Mouseketeer, was published.

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