Dataset: creativelifecycles.dat Sources: D.K. Simonson (2007). "Creative Life Cycles in Literature: Poets vs Novelists or Conceptualists versus Experimentalists?," Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Vol. 1, #3, pp. 133-139 D.W. Galenson (2003). "Literary Life Cycles: The Careers of American Poets." Working Paper 9856, National Bureau of Economic Research. D.W. Galenson (2004). "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young or Old Innovator: Measuring the Careers of Modern Novelists." Working Paper 10213, National Bureau of Economic Research. Description: Age at peak of career for 23 writers classified as novelist/poet and as Conceptualists(finders)/experimentalists(seekers). Data in Simonson has one misclassification (Williams as conceptualist) and one ommission (Dickens age at peak). Using corrected data and assigning Wilbur death in 2007, reproduces Regression results (using centered age at death). Variables/Columns Author 1-20 Writing Type 28 /* 1= Novelist, 0=Poet */ Style 36 /* 1=Experimentalist, 0=Conceptualist */ Age at death 42-44 Centered age at death 46-52 Age at career peak 59-60