About the Book:
\nF rom beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca\, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries\, comes an inspiring collection of stories t hat celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life.
\nEighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. I n fact\, there have always been late-in-life achievers\, those who decline d to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist\, humorist\, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Gr eenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they c ould have been puttering&mdash\;breaking out as writers\, selling out conc ert halls\, attempting to set land-speed records&mdash\;and in the case of one ninety-year tortoise\, becoming a first-time father. (Take that\, Al Pacino!)
\nIn the vein of Mobituaries\, Roctogenarians is a collecti on of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titans&mdash \;some long gone (a cancer-stricken Henri Matisse\, who began work on his celebrated cut-outs when he could no longer paint)\, some very much still living (Rita Moreno\, the EGOT who&rsquo\;s still got it). The amazing cas t of characters also includes Mary Church Terrell\, who at eighty-six help ed lead sit-ins at segregated Washington\, DC\, lunch counters in the 1950 s\, and Carol Channing\, who married the love of her life at eighty-two. T hen there&rsquo\;s Peter Mark Roget\, who began working on his thesaurus i n his twenties and completed it at seventy-three (because sometimes findin g the right word takes time.)
\nWith passion and wonder Rocca and Gr eenberg recount the stories of yesterday&rsquo\;s and today&rsquo\;s stron gest finishers. Because with all due respect to the Golden Girls\, some pe ople will never be content sitting out on the lanai. (PS Actress Estelle G etty was sixty-two when she got her big break. And yes\, she&rsquo\;s in t he book.)
\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:
\nMo Rocca is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning\, host of the hit Mobituaries podcas t\, and host of The Henry Ford&rsquo\;s Innovation Nation. He&rsquo\;s als o a frequent panelist on NPR&rsquo\;s hit weekly quiz show Wait Wait&helli p\;Don&rsquo\;t Tell Me! and host and creator of Cooking Channel&rsquo\;s My Grandmother&rsquo\;s Ravioli. Rocca is coauthor of the New York Times b estselling Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving and author of All the P residents&rsquo\; Pets: The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over .
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