Left handers have been mocked and demonised throughout the years, especially from religious people who believe the left hand to be ‘unclean’, or accusing left handers to be ‘consorting with the devil’.
As absurd as those claims may seem now, some of the negativity towards left-handed folk remains to this day. Left handers were still battling in the 20th century against people like American psychoanalyst Abram Blau, who accused all left-handers of being perverts. Even seemingly well-meaning teachers still insist on their student switching hands when they start to learn to write.
If only left handers were just left to be lefties! Some of our favourite writers were left-handed, and it is said that lefties tend to be more creative and arty than right handers.
Here’s a list of 8 of our favourite lefty writers.
Lewis Carroll– author of Alice in Wonderland
James Baldwin– writer and social critic
Franz Kafka- Jewish novelist
H. G. Wells– author of The Invisible Man
Mark Twain– author of Huckleberry Finn
Oprah Winfrey– TV personality and writer
Tina Fey– comedy writer and author of Bossypants
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