Best Writing Beards

In my last video, I spoke about my audience for this blog. One large cohort of this audience has pitched a very compelling and cogent question. Basically, many of my former students who like to peruse this blog have asked what happened to my beard.

I'm sure the men in the above picture, famous authors all, need no introduction. It only made sense last year that I too go down the route and become a great bearded writer as well. Well, when making videos for my classes, I couldn't very well shave or hide the beard. Ergo, there's an entire cohort of graduate students, many of whom follow this blog, who are wondering what happened to the beard. 

My own research assistant, in fact, was recruited, interviewed, hired, onboarded, and then mentored for the first few months by a guy with a beard. When I finally shaved it, he hardly recognized me. He also felt that I looked much better with the beard rather than without. 

I don't know if the beard was better for my writing persona or my professorial persona. I will say far fewer of my writing fans have logged any thoughts about my beard, whereas there's a good handful of  former students have reached out who are worried about my facial hair choices. I think my time among the great bearded writers will have to wait a smidge longer as my roommate vetoed what I had going on.