In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Anita Brookner CBE (born 16 July 1928) is an English language novelist and art historian who was born in Herne Hill a suburb of London. Brookner has not married; and took care of her parents as they aged. Anita Brookner had a lonely childhood although her grandmother and uncle lived with the family and her parents secular Jews opened their house to Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution during the 1930s and World War II.