Famous Mentoring Pairs
Posted by Rene Petrin on Mon, Mar 09, 2009 @ 12:26 PM
Having spoken about examples of good and bad mentoring pairs in fiction, I thought it would be nice to share famous mentoring pairs. Here's a small sample:
- Isaac Asimov mentor to Gene Roddenberry
- W.E.B. DuBois (social explorer, writer and revolutionary) mentor to Herbert Aptheker (writer, historian, author of A Documentary History of the Negro People )
- Hunter S. Thompson mentor to Warren Zevon
- Ruth Graham (spouse of Billy Graham) mentor to Patricia Cornwell (writer)
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson (clergyman and author) mentor to Emily Dickinson (poet)
- Robert Frost (poet) mentor to Wallace Stegner (writer, professor, environmentalist)
- Samuel Beckett (poet) mentor to Peggy Guggenheim
- Dashiel Hammett (writer) mentor to Lillian Hellman (writer)
- Mary Kay Ash (co-founder Mary Kay Cosmetics ) mentor to Tom Wheatley (president of global sales)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (author) mentor to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (writer)