In a post on the BookBaby blog, Michael Gallant says you’re never too old to start writing, and he shares examples to prove it. “Writing isn’t just a young person’s game,” he says. “Many authors who didn’t start writing until they were in their fifties, sixties, and seventies (and older!) have made their mark on critics and readers.”
- Frank McCourt’s first book, Angela’s Ashes, was published when he was 66. It won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, earned a National Book Critics Circle Award, and was adapted into a major motion picture.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House in the Big Woods was published by Harper & Brothers in 1932, when Wilder was 64.
- Millard Kaufman, creator of Mr. Magoo, published his first book, Bowl of Cherries, when he was 90.
- Ulysses S Grant’s memoirs were published shortly after his death, at age 63.
- Harriet Doerr’s first novel, Stones for Ibarra, was published when she was 74. It wont the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction.
