From A Jazz Bar To Marathons, Novelist Haruki Murakami Has Lived With Courage – And Discipline

Haruki Murakami, author of Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood and After the Quake, didn’t set out to be who he is. “Elements of Murakami’s background are mysterious, even to him. He can’t say why he decided to become a writer. It merely struck him one day, out of the blue, while watching a baseball game.”