From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Born in the northern Canadian town of Timmins Ontario raised in the small town of Prescott Ontario on the St Lawrence River Sandor Stern was drawn to short story writing while in high school and began writing stage plays while attending the University of Toronto Though he planned to obtain a degree in teaching a physicianuncle suggested that medicine might offer more involving experiences for an aspiring writer Heeding that advice Stern enrolled in Medical School at the University of Toronto During his schooling he continued to write switching to TV scripts and selling his first script to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation prior to his graduation in 1961 Description above from the Wikipedia article Sandor Stern licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia