Creative thought is performed in the brain's right hemisphere which controls your left-handed processes such as writing. So, the old idea says lefties are prone to do creative stuff moreso than right-handed folks.

I don't know if that theory has been debunked or not, but I remember my elementary teachers trying to "correct" the writing of left-handed students to go right. It was a social stigma. But then ~11% of the world population is left-handed, and August 13th is International Left-Handers' Day.

I was curious to know which well-known authors are/were southpaws. Disclosure: I'm a rightie. My brother and sister are lefties.

#1. Eudora Welty. Great Southern literary author.

#2. Peter Benchley. Wrote Jaws.

#3. Lewis Carroll. Wrote Alice in Wonderland.

#4. Dave Barry. Light-hearted fare.

#5. James Michener. I read several of his door-stop novels.

#6. Mark Twain. No explanation needed.

#7. Mary Roberts Rhinehart. American Agatha Christie.

#8. Franz Kafka. Gregor's creator.

#9. James Baldwin. Go Tell It on the Mountain

#10. H.G. Wells. Science fiction writer.

Happy reading to you and yours!

By Ed Lynskey
Twitter: @edlynskey
Author of Lake Charles
"Definitely recommend you take a fictional journey to Lake Charles."
Elizabeth A. White's Musings of an All Purpose Monkey