A typical writing career goes like this: first book makes little or no stir, but it's good enough for more to be commissioned. The author builds up to a professional heyday; then follows a long period of silence and finally respectful obituaries at age eighty or so. A literary bell curve, in fact. But some famous writers have done it differently: their first book is their biggest; they published only one book; they kept writing into advanced old age when their peers had long since rested on their laurels.

A 'baker's dozen' is thirteen. So in this brilliantly concise miscellany of thirteen writers (74pp) – a mix of biography and literary criticism - we see how doing it differently has been a path to fame. Is your favourite author among them?

THE WRITERS
STAN BARSTOW
JOHN BRAINE
EMILY BRONTE
THOMAS HARDY
HARPER LEE
JAMES LOVELOCK
FRANCOISE SAGAN 
J.D. SALINGER
ALAN SILLITOE
LAURENCE STERNE
MARY WESLEY
OSCAR WILDE
P.G. WODEHOUSE

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