Local Author Ben Fountain Gets Some New Yorker Love From Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell’s latest think-piece for The New Yorker is about the idea of late bloomers and how most people tend to “equate genius with precocity.” The late bloomer he uses as an example throughout the story? Local author Ben Fountain, who gave up his career as a lawyer to write fiction, and “took the literary world by storm at the age of forty-eight.”