Burroughs spent the rest of the decade writing shorter works and essays.

Nolan spent more than a decade writing The Banyan Tree.

An alum of George Washington University, Sam has spent the last four decades writing spiritual self-help articles and political blogs.

Niebuhr spent decades writing about the bright side of Marxism.

He briefly contemplated a career in politics, and spent much of the following two decades writing magazine articles, lecturing and teaching.

You've spent four decades writing about school kids, but have you ever raised one?

In the other corner is a professor who has spent decades writing on the abstruse ideas about which he seeks to question the student.

Schütze spent the next decade writing scores for films.

He spent more than two decades writing for the Carto-backed newspaper, The Spotlight.

After spending a successful decade writing in Nashville, Tenn., Sanders' career began to skyrocket in the early 1990s.