[COPY] A conversation with the bestselling novelist Bonnie Garmus

"I really had no idea how much people would care about my age. It’s the last thing that matters in writing. What does matter is working at the craft."

Bonnie Garmus is something of a marvel — a writer who, after a long international career as a copywriter in California, Switzerland and UK, published her first novel Lessons In Chemistry at the age of 64. The manuscript sold in a 16-way auction, published to near-unanimous critical acclaim and landed on bestseller lists on both side of the Atlantic. Sin…