by Vicraj Gill
It’s hard to think of a time when Vladimir Nabokov and Gustave Flaubert were obscure names. But neither Flaubert’s The Temptation of Anthony nor Nabokov’s The Tragedy of Mister Morn made any waves when they were first written Continue reading »
by Jon Clinch
Mark Twain was, above all else, a human being engaged in the struggles of a full human life—and he presented himself on the page with all of the complexity and all of the contradiction that unfiltered humanity brings with it. Continue reading »
by Sonya Chung
The older we get, the more mistakes we’ve racked up . . . The question is: what do we do, how do we go forth, in the face of this inevitable accumulation of failures? Continue reading »
by Alison Gazarek
It was after exposure to all these very modern experiences, at the age of 67, that Laura Ingalls Wilder decided to write books about her childhood Continue reading »
by Francine Toder
While anecdotal and unscientific, Kovic and her eighty-nine-year-old student saw and experienced first hand that old brains can, in fact, do some things as well or better than twenty-year-old brains. Continue reading »
by Amy Weldon
Anna Sewell, spinster invalid, wrote one of the most influential and original books to come out of Victorian England. Continue reading »
by Vicraj Gill
[w]e’re taking a look at five other Bloomers who earned major honors in literary careers that took off after they turned 40. Continue reading »
