Precocity Be Damned

From left: Susan Sontag, Barbara Epstein, Elizabeth Hardwick and Joan Didion, New York, New York, 1999

In a blog post on the Times website, Timothy Egan wrote yesterday about those who find success relatively late in life. At one time, he coveted the ‘wunderkind’, the young genius who produces brilliant work early on in their career, like F. Scott Fitzgerald or Vincent van Gogh. But now, perhaps through necessity, he finds inspiration [...]