Walter Sorrells '85 has been a novelist since his mid-20s, publishing thrillers and mysteries under a variety of names; he has trained in various martial arts for more than two decades; he is a competitive pistol shooter; and for more than a decade, he has been handcrafting elaborate knives and swords. 

“I’ve pretty much spent my entire adult life doing the same things I was interested in when I was 13 years old.”