Research Catalog

Title

Creative edge : insights from the lives of the world's most famous outsiders / Brent Taylor.

Author

Taylor, Brent

Publication

Richmond, Vic. : John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

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Description

xxiii, 366 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Following on from his research which resulted in the Outsider's Edge, published in late 2007, Taylor puts cultural icons under the microscope. He researches elite sports people, actors, musicians, scentists, explorers and icons from the arts. Once again he concentrates on their childhoods and early adult influences to draw parallels which go some way to explain why certain people achieve extreme fame and fortune in creative fields."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Celebrities > Case studies
• Celebrities > Biography
• Success in popular culture
• Successful people
• Creative ability
• Creativity

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Case studies

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-362) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. The cultural icons. Elvis Presley: kinky king of rock 'n' roll -- John Lennon: troubled but brilliant Beatle -- Madonna: exhibitionist pop diva -- Angelina Jolie: down-to-earth sex goddess -- Brad Pitt: celluloid chick magnet -- JK Rowling: spellbinding storyteller -- Dan Brown: cloak-and-dagger heretic -- Andy Warhol: eccentric art phenomenon -- Frida Kahlo: flamboyantly tragic artist -- Albert Einstein: physicist who escaped to the cosmos -- Sigmund Freud: psychoanalyst trapped by his own Oedipal complex -- Walt Disney: tyrannical nostalgia mogul -- Coco Chanel: fashion liberator -- Amelia Earhart: accident-prone aviatrix -- Edmund Hillary: Everest's unexpected conqueror -- Tiger Woods: self-programmed golf wizard -- David Beckham: fastidious football star -- pt. 2. Insights. The common factors -- What are outsiders? -- Outsiders are made early -- Intelligence and other advantages -- Creative edge -- Inventing their own lives -- Creative or crazy? -- Paying the piper -- Ten tips for aspiring cultural icons.

ISBN

9780731408474 (pbk.) :

OCLC

• 553012254
• SCSB-11842319

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library