Esquire magazine is running a slide show of the editors' pick-list of the seventy-five most influential people of the 21st century on their website.
http://www.esquire.com/features/most-influential-21st-century-1008
And I am running this post mostly because I am so staggered at how few writers there are.
TWO!!!
Go through it, and see if you can correct me.
(It's not fair to count people who write books as a parttime kind of thing, like politicians and financiers.)
But they did include the founder of amazon.com . . .
And Rupert Murdock.
2 comments:
Two authors, Michael Chabon and Dave Eggers. But Joan it is the sort of list you would expect Esquire to come up with. Northern Hemisphere/USA-centric. Few from the arts, apart from a few Hollywood actors. A disproportionate number from Massachusetts.
Like book prizes lists like these are often controversial but they do generate discussion.
So my arithmetic was right! I was so stunned by the cast of unknowns that I wondered if I had missed a writer or two. I was also surprised that there were so few actors. Financiers seemed to dominate the field. I wonder if Esquire will feel the same way this time next week . . .
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