Left Handed Writers
"The Pen Is
Mightier Than The Sword"
Okay, I'll
agree that a
lot of us southpaws are challenged when it comes to penmanship.
However, when it comes to creative writing, there have been some very
impressive Left Handed Writers. Alice's
Adventures In Wonderland, The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,The
Time Machine
and Jaws
are but a few literary selections that have been penned by lefties.
What girl has not imagined herself stepping through a looking glass
into a magical world. Thanks to lefty
Lewis Carroll, generations of
children have done just that by reading Alice's
Adventures In Wonderland.
The book was first published in 1865 and tells
the story of
a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a world of
fantasy filled characters. The title is now commonly known as Alice
In Wonderland.
Only the creative brain of a
southpaw could have
inspired such a literary classic.
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
is considered to be the
Great American Novel. Written by American author Mark Twain in 1884,
this novel tells of two young boys adventures in the deep south. Mark
Twains humor in his books and speech gained him popularity with
presidents, artists and royalty (and he too is left handed).
Our next left handed author is H.G.
Wells. He created dozens of fiction
and non-fiction books. The
Time Machine
published in 1895,created a
world of time travel by using a machine to transport a person to
specific times in history (past & present). This book alone is
considered responsible for thousands of science fiction writings.
With the development of such things as the typewriter and today's word
processing software, penmanship is no longer a handicap for left handed
writers. So let your left handed imagination run wild and put it on
paper (or computer) for the world to see. You could be the next
literary giant of today.