Andrew Shaffer thinks greeting cards should include something for everyone. Sure, lots of us just want a plain old Christmas card. But Andrew had cooler ideas—and the skills to make them real.
Kaui Hart Hemmings took up writing in the hopes of avoiding a "normal" job. The strategy worked. Her first book, a short-story collection titled House of Thieves, came out when she was 29, and was quickly followed by a well-reviewed novel, The Descendants .
Katya Grineva made up her mind when she first set foot in New York City as a Russian teenager that she would play Carnegie Hall. The concert pianist has done it in spades: 2007 marks her ninth consecutive year gracing the time-honored stage, the first female solo pianist to hold that record.
