David Sparks
It was an honor to be invited to contribute a chapter to this volume. The autobiographies of the authors of scientific papers I read as a graduate student, ones that influenced the direction of my scientific career, are found in early volumes of this collection. 

A pdf of my chapter in Volume 12 can be downloaded by using this link: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:5ab5b819-316f-3eb6-bc17-92b94954f1b3