Ranking Writers

[davemarc]

I feel very uncomfortable with ranking writers like they're Pokemon
characters or something...and that age thing strikes me as weird, too.

The first book of Don Quixote came out when Cervantes was about 58; the
second when he was about 68.

Harold Robbins was about 32 when his first book was published.

Tropic of Cancer came out when Henry Miller was what--47?

Rimbaud was through by the time he was 20.

Go figure.

Magic is magic, whenever a writer manages to tap into it.

d.