J.K. Rowling observed, “There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” Perhaps that’s why writers constitute Later Bloomer’s largest category. Our books and stories can become healing gifts to ourselves and to the future.
“A guy and a computer both fall in love with a girl. Interesting times ensue.” Author Lindsay Edmunds’ debut novel is classic, mind-stretching speculative fiction, published at age 58.
William Gay was the son of a sharecropper. He grew up a blue-collar worker, barely making a living, writing at night. At age 55, after countless rejections, he got published.
Long before King Richard III was unearthed from a Leicester parking lot, Sharon Kay Penman sought to tell the truth of his life. She ook on propagandist William Shakespeare and acquitted herself more than admirably. But not before a dastardly deed was done…
The first Harry Potter book only had a 1000-copy run. J.K. Rowling spent a year hawking it while getting a teaching certificate. And then magic happened…
In which I revisit Chandler’s classic 1944 Atlantic Monthly essay on genre writing.
A late-blooming writer who published her first novel at 56, but didn’t see her second one in print until age 84!
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