By his 60s, Dick King-Smith felt he had failed at farming and teaching grade school children. Then he combined his former careers into a vocation for writing, and a “Babe” was born!
An epistolary memoir sent via iPad from a woman in her 80s who enthusiastically embraces art, technology, and what the future may bring.
At age 58, Merryfield retired from NatWest Bank to pursue acting professionally and became a beloved TV figure. “I’m in the enviable position of being an actor with a pension.”
Alex Haley took a meandering route to his calling. He dropped out of college to join the Coast Guard and honed his writing skills at Playboy magazine before publishing Roots at age 56.
Frank McCourt taught English in New York high schools for 27 years before writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Angela’s Ashes, at age 66. “I refused to settle for a one-act existence.”
Diana Nyad was once the greatest long distance swimmer in the world. Then she burned out and didn’t swim a stroke for 30 years. Read about her astounding comeback at age 60!