He left his prosperous job writing soap operas to retreat to a hill shack to do a novel.
The knighted and prosperous Conan Doyle wrote a few more valuable books, including the still-exciting dino-adventure, "The Lost World," and performed some good deeds — as when he used his Sherlockian sleuthing skills to exonerate a half-Indian man who'd been unjustly imprisoned (the incident that inspired Julian Barnes's novel "Arthur and George").
"Fortunately, not everyone shares Mr. Eltife's big-tax vision for a less prosperous Texas," Mr. Sullivan wrote in a recent post on his group's Web site.
This presumes humans will not all soon shift to a purely vegetarian lifestyle, even though there are signs of what you might call "peak meat" (consumption, that is) in prosperous societies (Mark Bittman wrote a nice piece on this).
The result is that highly connected, prosperous people like Mr. Reynolds are of huge value to a campaign because they can call on many other highly connected, prosperous people to write checks, which is particularly vital to Republicans in a year when Democrats have far outpaced them in fund-raising.
"We are very happy to offer the respite from the Western world of oppressive governments to freedom-minded people in which they can build a new, more prosperous community," Berwick wrote in May 2013.
They endured unimaginable hardships in turning a wilderness into one of the most prosperous places on earth.In writing this book, Mr Bain aimed to link the present to the past.
His most recent book, "A Prosperous Way Down" (2001), written with his wife, Elisabeth C. Odum, discusses the prospects for a prosperous future as supplies of fossil fuels dwindle.
"President Obama understands the key role science has played in building a prosperous America," the laureates wrote in a letter that was released on Wednesday.
At the root of a drawn-out labor strike at a Maruti Suzuki India factory in Haryana is the "gap between aspirations of a new generation of workers and clockwork precision of a prosperous company," the Telegraph writes.
