In the world of child prodigies, novelists are the rarest breed. Barbara Newhall Follett, born in Hanover, N.H., in 1914, fit the bill. By the time she was 9 years old she had completed her first ...
We often grow up believing that greatness reveals itself early. The chess prodigy, the child violinist, the teenage sports star — these stories dominate how we imagine success is born. However, a new ...