At what age is it acceptable to pen your autobiography?

Nana Wereko-Brobby, Editor, 25

‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’, says the teacher to his student, as he rests his feet on his mahogany desk and muses on a life peppered with success, failure, drama, tragedy and a thousand good stories to tell. It tends to be a given that, whether Sir Michael Caine or Steve the postman, once you reach a ripe old age you will have some stories to tell. As an astute Jewish Care client noted this week, when you’re old you spend you’re time looking back, “what becomes important are your memories”.

And better still, there’s an audience willing to pay for these stories.