
Prodigies
Bobby Fischer became the youngest international grand master of chess at the age of 15. Mozart composed a concerto at the age of four. By the time I knew about child prodigies, I was too old. I considering trying to be an enfant terrible, but . . . I wasn’t very terrible. I had to settle for “smart enough to come in from the rain.” Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies, Ann Hulbert writes about extraordinary children including chess champio