Saturday, October 07, 2017

Can a 10-year-old be a genius?


A newly discovered piece of fiction by Ernest Hemingway joins humbling examples of juvenilia by other great artists, from Jane Austen to Pablo Picasso. Ten-year-old Hemingway wrote about boats, but 11-year-old Austen wrote “tales of sexual misdemeanour, of female drunkenness and violence.” 

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