If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians (2002), Neenah Ellis discusses several stories from the National Public Radio series One Hundred Years of Stories. Ellis interviewed each of the respondents, all of whom were over one hundred years old. The stories range from men and women resigned to their old age to those who are old in body but refuse to grow old in spirit.

Like Nat and Midge in I'm Not Rappaport, the protagonist in Gardner's play A Thousand Clowns (1962) undergoes various forms of pressure from a society that wants him to conform to a normal, acceptable lifestyle.

Joan Rattner Heilman's Unbelievably Good Deals and Great Adventures That You Absolutely Can't Get unless You're over 50 (2001) is technically a discount book for seniors. However, it also provides readers with an overview of some of the societal benefits that only...