Anybody know someone in their sixties who started writing books and actually made a living from it?

Question

Either fiction or non-fiction - not biographies

Answer 1

Norman Maclean didn't start writing his stories until he was in his seventies. He only published one book of three novellas, "A River Runs Through It" (the title story for the book and subsequent movie) and "USFS 1910" and "Pimping and Logging and Your Pal Jim"

I know that you ask for non-biographies but they are fantastic stories taken from his own life, and not really "biographies". I am a professor of English and Applied Linguistics and encourage people who are retired to take up writing if for no other reason than to document the stories of their lives for their family and future generations.

Don't write with the motivation that your writing has to make money. Write to tell your stories, or to tell the stories that have been locked in your imagination. If you make money from them, that is a bonus, but it is a fast-track to immortality if you simply write your stories down.

You just might be remembered after you are gone.

Answer 2

i've got continually enjoyed writing. while i replaced into approximately 7 i used to have a computer that i might write my memories in. they have been continually approximately 'cool' human beings and acquaintances that had to go away. once I even wrote an epic 7 website (with vast writing) tale on mermaids. Then sooner or later i finished altogether. except of path if we had to jot down memories for college (which i nevertheless enjoyed doing) i began writing back in approximately year 7 (now in year 10) all my memories up till a year in the past have not been comprehensive yet now my plots are slowly getting endings. the story i'm writing on the 2d is a "ought to end" i do no longer understand why yet i think that this novel gets performed - no mater how long it takes!!!

Answer 3

Patrick Stewart the author of the Juno. Aubrey series was in his mid sixty's before he ever sold a word. He wrote 19 novels about the sea and several testimonials.

Answer 4

Frank McCourt wrote Angelas Ashes in his sixties.

Answer 5

Well Rex Stout was 48 and had a fantastic series of novels.

Answer 6

I would also love to say I knew you before you became famous!

GO FOR IT!!!