Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas Are Born
Denise Shekerjian
(Author)
Description
Everyone from the budding entrepreneur to the weekend writer is looking for a great idea. Even Friedrich Nietzsche said that "ideas come when "they" want, not when "I" want." But where do great ideas come from?In this searching look into the essence of creativity, forty winners of the coveted MacArthur Foundation Fellowship - the so-called "genius award" - provide a glimpse inside their own experience of the creative process. Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, opera director Peter Sellars, poets Joseph Brodsky and Brad Leithauser, social scientists Robert Coles and Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot, and others in fields as diverse as filmmaking, carpentry, and anthropology reveal how they sneak up on creativity. Blending conversation, theory, and examples from literature and life, this absorbing, thought-provoking book will also show you how to harness the creative spark in your life.
Product Details
Price
$16.00
$14.88
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publish Date
February 01, 1991
Pages
272
Dimensions
5.05 X 7.78 X 0.53 inches | 0.48 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780140109863
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About the Author
Denise Shekerjian is a writer, author, and attorney. Shekerjian has published two nonfiction books and nearly a dozen literary essays. She also assists clients with memoirs, blogs, resumes, essays, grants, and other nonfiction material. Her writing specialties are the creative process, law, and politics. She has received two Pushcart Prize nominations, a New Jersey Council on the Arts award and was a Marshall Fellow in Civil Liberties. She holds an honorary doctorate in letters from the University of Vermont.
