In the world of child prodigies, novelists are the rarest breed. Barbara Newhall Follett, born in Hanover, N.H., in 1914, fit the bill. By the time she was 9 years-old she had completed her first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alan Edmunds, a psychologist, librettist and the writer of "Perfect World," a musical that tells the story of literary child ...