I stumbled across a set of two articles on Alexander Grothendieck in the American Mathematical Society's Notices: part 1 and part 2. After reading The artist and the mathematician: The story of Nicolas Bourbaki, The genius mathematician who never existed a year or so ago I got interested in the phenomenon Bourbaki and its related figures. The two linked articles provide a nice nuance to the history of Grothendieck.

An interesting quote (discovered through the aforementioned two-part article) I read in Grothendieck's Récoltes et Semailles (page 1 of part Fatuite et Renouvellement) is:

La découverte est le privilège de l’enfant. C’est du petit enfant que je veux parler, l’enfant qui n’a pas peur encore de se tromper, d’avoir l’air idiot, de ne pas faire sérieux, de ne pas faire comme tout le monde.

The looking like an idiot part is already settled, let's hope the rest follows :).