First Time Novelist at 63 – Belva Plain

Have you ever felt you were too old to start that novel you’ve always wanted to write?

Belva Plainwas called the“The grandmother who wrote best-sellers.” Her first novel, a romantic epic, was published in 1978 by Dell when she was 63 years old. What’s more, her debutnovel, Evergreen, stayed on the NYT best-seller list for 41 weeks in hardcover, another 20 weeks in paperback, and was later made into a mini-series.

Belva went on to write over20 books that made the NYT list. At her death in 201...