<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/fall-2003/writing-life.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Writing from Life</title><excerpt>Aris Janigian ’82 always wanted to be a writer but never thought he could earn a living with his pen. He majored in both English and psychology at Westmont, earned a Ph.D. in psychology at Claremont Graduate School and found a job teaching humanities at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. But he never gave up writing, and he published his first novel this year.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            
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