Everyone has asked their roommate for a favor every now and then while they live together, but how many roommates keep in touch with each other after they go their separate ways? Some never hear from their former roommates again, while others keep in touch for years to come.
Novelist Thomas Caplan, asked his former Georgetown University roommate, former president Bill Clinton to write the preface to his upcoming spy novel “The Spy Who Jumped Off the S
creen”. Clinton praised the novel stating that is was “stylish, contemporary and involving”, and agreed to contribute to the novel.
It must be nice to say your former roommate used to be the most powerful man in the free world, and now he is helping you with your book. Have you ever had a roommate that later went on to become someone famous, or important? Let us know.
