Arts of Innovation: Novelists

franklin
Ben Franklin

NEW
Innovation
coverage
online

Innovator tours of museums in Paris

Tips for success in old age

Sol LeWitt,
finder

Give Ralph Ellison a break

Greatest
women
artists

How Disney Imagineers innovate

Clint Eastwood, seeker
(Feb. 4)

The complex
case of Fernando Botero
(Jan. 21 and 30)

Innovators
in academia
(Jan. 10)

Orson Welles and John Milton!
(Dec. 14)

Major League Baseball
as experimental innovator
(Dec. 13)

Walt Disney
as finder
(Dec. 12)

Inventor Stanford Ovshinsky as aging finder
(Dec. 9)

Morris Louis
as seeker
(Nov. 18)

Two types of innovators among novelists

This page will serve as a temporary index of experimental and conceptual innovators among novelists.

The careers of Herman Melville and Mark Twain are contrasting examples.

Melville was a finder who published his one great novel, Moby-Dick, at age 32, while Mark Twain was a seeker who published his one great novel, Huckleberry Finn, at age 50.

The beginnings of an index:

Ellison -- An excerpt from the Arts of Innovation blog discusses conceptual author Ralph Ellison.