Is the 'artist's life' worth it? An author tries to answer the question

Stephanie Elizondo Griest, in her new book "Art Above Everything," spent over a decade asking artists, including ballerina Wendy Whelan and author Sandra Cisneros.
Is living an artist's life worth the sacrifice?
“The writing life,” author Stephanie Elizondo Griest says, “is like the ultimate hazing experience, because it tests you at every level. You are continually confronted with rejection — plus how are you going to pay the bills?”
Now a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Elizondo Griest is out with a new book, “Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life.”
In it, she travels to 10 nations and interviews writers, artists and performers from around the world who have devoted their lives to creative pursuits. From Mexico to Qatar, from Rwanda to New Zealand, Elizondo Griest poses the question: Is the pursuit of art worth it?
Elizondo Griest draws from her own experience pursuing a writing career. Though she was constantly working, she had no stable job, no 401(k) and no health insurance. And although she traveled all over the world, she had no home of her own: She was an educated adult woman who at times moved back in with her parents and slept in her childhood bedroom.
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