November 2013
Beginner
208 pages
5h
English
Imagine that you were to perfectly engineer a child from conception into an important novelist. You would start by joining two intellectuals, perhaps affiliated with a major university, in marriage. Then, if you got lucky, their offspring would start reading at a mere two years old. You would nourish her with the canon of Western literature from Shakespeare to Locke to Hemingway. Perhaps by age seven, she would start writing by building on the plots, settings, and characters of the stories she had fallen in love reading.
As she revealed in her TEDGlobal 2009 talk, ...