Beautiful minds

YOU see their faces lining the bookshelves of Kinokuniya, and their names appearing in the New York Times bestseller lists. Which is a given, considering they're award-winning authors, but the people behind the pages do more than just write. They're polymaths - or people adept at more than one skill - which adds to the already unfair distribution of talent in their favour.

Paul Theroux, for one, is often associated with writing travelogues, but he is no stranger to writing novels and children's books, besides speaking at least seven languages. Naomi Wolf has had at least four be…