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When psychologist-turned-playwright Alan Edmunds stumbled upon the story of Barbara Newhall Follett—a literary prodigy who wrote her first critically acclaimed novel before the age of twelve, then ...

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Alan Edmunds, a psychologist, librettist and the writer of "Perfect World," a musical that tells the story of literary child prodigy Barbara Follet, sits inside the El Portal Theatre. (Carlin Stiehl / ...

In the world of child prodigies, novelists are the rarest breed. Barbara Newhall Follett, born in Hanover, N.H., in 1914, fit the bill. By the time she was 9 years-old she had completed her first ...