
Are successful authors creative geniuses or literary labourers?
Some writers are explorers, like Edgar Allan Poe. Others are exploiters, like Jules Verne. Which type is better off?
by Oleg Sobchuk
Oleg Sobchuk is a postdoctoral researcher in the Minds and Traditions research group (aka ‘the Mint’) at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology in Germany.