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My favorite is Tolkien. The Hobbit was published when he was 45. To points made by others though he was a professor of English at Oxford for many years prior a
by iandanforth 15y ago
My favorite is Tolkien. The Hobbit was published when he was 45.
To points made by others though he was a professor of English at Oxford for many years prior and wrote copiously during that time.
- saraid216 15y agoYeah, I wouldn't call Tolkien a middle-aged bloomer. His books were extensions of what he had already been doing that entire time, AFAIK: the stories were part stories for his kids and part riffs off his philology work. I guess you could point at his ambition to create an English mythology as his middle-aged success, but I'm not sure he was actually successful at that.