Writers, artists, innovators …

… Reviews and Marginalia : Creators: From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson (2006).

What distinguishes Johnson's essays most is the intellectual vigor of his research and observations, the impressive fluidity of his prose, and the ambitious boldness of the thematic premise which dominates Creators: Johnson's subjects (and the rest of the world's important creators) have become giants in their fields because of courage, curiosity, and industriousness …