A 94-year-old great-grandmother in Australia has earned her Master's degree in anthropology. Just shows there's no cut-off age for accomplishment. Apparently she has a wonderful, lively mind. Click on the link to read more.
As for writing, here are two authors who made it well after their fiftieth birthday:
1) Frank McCourt published Angela's Ashes when he was 66 (and won the Pulitzer Prize)
2) poet Ruth Stone won the National Book Award when she was 87, and became the poet laureate of Vermont at 92.
3) Helen Hooven Santmeyer became a bestselling author for the first time at 88 years old.
I hope it doesn't take me that long, but if it does, apparently I'm in extraordinarily good company!
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