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Writers Wednesday: 7 Famous Late Bloomers

| Posted 01.11.2012

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From Writer's Relief: Think you’re too old to start a writing career? In many industries, there’s an emphasis on youth, on what’s new, cuttin...

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"The Guardian" Picks Top 10 Childhood Memoirs

guardian.co.uk | Caradoc King | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Donna Williams, Marjane Satrapi, Brooke Hayward, Nigel Slater, Problem Child, Little House on the Prairie, Memoirs, Blake Morrison, Childhood Memoirs, Roald Dahl, Top 10, Lorna Sage, Janice Galloway, Caradoc King, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Books News

Caradoc King heads the literary agency AP Watt and represents a wide range of literary, commercial and children's authors, among them Graham Swift, Ph...

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Huffpost Readers' Picks: What Book From Childhood Can't You Forget? (PHOTOS)

Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: The Phantom Tollbooth, George Orwell, A Little Princess, The Wizard of Oz, Roald Dahl, Where the Red Fern Grows, Norton Juster, James and the Giant Peach, The Boxcar Children, Agatha Christie, Animal Farm, Laura Ingalls Wilder, L. Frank Baum, Judy Bloom, Childhood Books, Redwall, Brian Jaques, White Fang, A Wrinkle in Time, John Bellairs, The Little Prince, Books News

Most of us remember that time in our childhood when we picked up a book that we just couldn't put down. Our imaginations were such that it transported...

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Literary Late Bloomers: Great Authors Who Took A Little Longer To Get Started (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Henry Miller, Wallace Stevens, Writers, Charles Bukowski, Poets, William S. Burroughs, Late Bloomers, Slidepollajax, Raymond Chandler, Poetry, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Anthony Burgess, Books News

Not everyone can be a literary prodigy. There are plenty of authors who didn't reach publishing success until mid-life, or later. There's a fantastic...

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Get Cozy: 6 Books To Beat The Winter Blues

csmonitor.com | Nora Dunne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Frost, Winter Books, The Long Winter, The Snowy Day, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Ground Hog Day, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, The Call of the Wild, The Mitten, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Books News

The groundhog may have seen his shadow yesterday, but for those of us enduring a blizzard a week spring still seems a distant prospect. So instead of ...

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Piggy Bank Morality: Maya MacGuineas and David Brooks

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maya MacGuineas, Social Security, Alice Rivlin, Pete Peterson, Alan Simpson, David Brooks, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Social Security doesn't contribute to the deficit. But it can help decrease it, provided you have no moral qualms about raiding a Trust Fund created for people's retirement

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10 Whimsical, Recession-Proof Holiday Gift Ideas

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vogue, Holidays, William Donovan, Presents, Christmas, Heirlooms, Lesley M. M. Blume, Gifts, Recession, Family, Holiday Shopping, Christmas Ideas, Gift Ideas, Kennedy, Obama, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roosevelt, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

If there's a silver lining to this recession, it may be that Americans are less willing to buy tons of expensive crap for each other during the holida...

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