he wrote about his mother's ability to correctly identify her children's sicknesses when the doctors were wrong.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

He wrote "Symphony Number Two, the Age of Anxiety" in nineteen forty-nine when he was about thirty.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

He wrote his first song for his mother when he was eight years old.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

He did not even correct the mistakes others made when they wrote about him.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

He wrote one of the Beatles' most famous songs, "When I'm Sixty-Four."

VOA: special.2010.06.18

He once wrote that when he was young he imagined that with the possible exception of a doctor saving a life, "writing a worthy play was the most important thing a human being could do."

VOA: special.2009.11.29

When Bill McKibben wrote "The End of Nature" 20 years ago, he thought that if he simply pointed out ecological problems, people would do something about them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21