Collected Later Poems - Paperbackby Toby Olson (Author) Toby Olson began writing poetry while in high school and he continued writing it while in the U. S. Navy, and later as a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He received a Master's Degree at Long Island University in New York, after which he taught Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. His first novel was The Life of Jesus, and this was followed by eleven books of fiction and many books of poetry. He