Are You Too Old to Become a Successful Writer?

When William Golding published his first novel, Lord of the Flies, in 1954, one reviewer said he was too old to start writing fiction. Golding was 43, hardly what we’d think of as elderly. But, for that reviewer and many others, fiction writing was a game for the just-out-of-college set.Times—and attitudes about aging—have changed since… Continue reading Are You Too Old to Become a Successful Writer?