The Handmaid's Tale, By Margaret Atwood

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people” -Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades (). For centuries, there have been multifarious pieces of literature and people who wrote them. In the literary community, the innovators, the dauntless and the Mr. Nobodys, are the most common kinds of divisions of authors fall into, according to their works and their character. The innovators are the authors that their work changed a genre. Or they created a new one. They have the courage to present ideas nobody thought before, even if they are complex. Innovative writers are unconventional and break the norm (). Margaret Atwood, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, has impacted science fiction, feminism, and dystopia and taken speculative fiction to the next level with her books (). Harper Lee’s book, To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960, touched sensitive issues like the Civil Rights of black people (). The Innovative author is revolutionary because he or she breaks the status quo.

These authors are the most common. These types of authors have the discipline to not procrastinate. They have the courage to face rejection and criticism. The dauntless authors’ perseverance helped them to continue despite the rejection and criticism (). For example, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many short stories, such as The Mystery of Sasassa Valley and The American Tale. But when he published Study in Scarlet, in which it introduces the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle became popular rapidly (). William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was rejected twenty times before being published and becoming a classic. James Joyce’ Ulysses, William Faulkner’s Sanctuary, Agatha Christie, Louisa May Alcott, Jorge Luis Borges, and the list goes on and on (). Dauntless authors’ perseverance and determination pay