Learning from the Late Greats: Alexandre Dumas edition
Alexandre Dumas is the comeback king of French literature, the popular novelist who dared his detractors to make his race an issue and survived the bloodbath of Napoleon’s rise to power and outlasted...
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This morning marks the fourth installation and therefore the fourth author in my ‘late greats’ series. I’ve already examined the lives of Johannes Gutenberg (b. ca 1390), Jane Austen (b. 1775), and...
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Sometimes, the fiercest battles are fought over the sweetest of rabbits. Ah––and there you have it, my fifth and final late great champion of the self-published or otherwise non-traditional author:...
View ArticleLearning from the Late Greats: Summary edition
There are a lot of reasons why looking to the past for role models can be problematic, particularly (in our case) when looking for legendary figures for us to admire as self-publishing authors. For...
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