1.   Angell, who was a finalist, withdrew recently as a candidate and said she was retiring to write a book on alternative medicine.

2.   Keiser retired to write poetry in Paris, but a year ago he hooked up again with Burns, now an investment banker in Los Angeles.

3.   Next thing I knew we had bought a house -- a cottage, actually, that had a floored attic where I would retire to write.

4.   The son of a Methodist minister, Price worked as a journalist, urban planner and lobbyist before retiring to write fiction.