Wunderkind | An Overview of Wunderkind
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In the early 1930s, a Columbus, Georgia, teenager named Lula Carson Smith was bitterly disappointed in her artistic ambitions. While some of the details of her experience are disputed, its basic outlines are clear: Long considered a musical prodigy, having trained for years as a concert pianist and prepared to enter New York’s famous Julliard School, she suddenly gave up music entirely and began devoting her energies to a writing career. Her first published work was ‘‘Wunderkind,’’ written at age 19, originally for a college writing course. The story concerns a young woman’s...
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