Chance encounter in wartime Zürich -- Approaches to creativity -- Sigmund Freud: alone with the world -- Albert Einstein: the perennial child -- Pablo Picasso: prodigiousness and beyond -- Igor Stravinsky: the poetics and politics of music -- T.S. Eliot: the marginal master -- Martha Graham: discovering the dance of America -- Mahatma Gandhi: a hold upon others -- Creativity across the domains.