“It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.”

About Walter B. Pitkin

Author • American

Walter Boughton Pitkin was a prominent American author and university professor. He is best known for his influential 1932 self-help book, 'Life Begins at Forty,' which became a massive bestseller. Pitkin taught...