1. She retained the passion and quickness of a wunderkind.

2. In May 19 when I met him, George Lucas was an unappreciated wunderkind.

3. Aftertaste Having burned all his bridges, celebrity chef Easton West finds himself back in his hometown, repairing relationships and reinventing himself with a little help from his wunderkind niece.

4. The swimmer paved (Backstroked?) the way for the wunderkind that came later, taking home a then-unprecedented seven gold medals during the 1972 Munich games—a tally only surpassed by …

5. Cliffside The Scottish wunderkind pianist’s second album, Cairn, looks set to establish his global presence as a composer, pianist and bandleader with its freshness of sound and originality.

6. Through him we meet aspiring actress Billie Cantrip, journalist Freya Wyley, German wunderkind film director Reiner Werther Kloss and gangster kingpin Harry Pulver, as well as a host of other film types.

7. F or years, colleagues and friends tried coaxing and Chivying Mike Nichols into writing his autobiography and telling just how the whole shebang unfolded: the wunderkind comedy partnership with Elaine May that set things spinning in the late 1950s and led to Nichols’s prodigious career as a theater director, which led—seamlessly—to his equally notable career as a filmmaker.