Have there been any famous child/teenage authors?

Allow me to introduce you to Maya Van Wagenen: One day Maya found an old book in her attic about how to be popular. Maya then followed this books advice and wrote about her experience. Her book Popular, is the result. Pretty neat huh? read more

S.E. Hinton started writing The Outsiders when she was 15. It was published two years later when she was a freshman in college at the University of Oklahoma. It subsequently sold more than 14 million copies. read more

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues’ Tom Robbins told the Times, “There are no prodigies in literature. Literature requires experience, in a way that mathematics and music do not.” We wanted to see if he was right, and decided to look back in history at several child and teen authors past the break. read more

John Steptoe (1950–1989), author and illustrator, began his picture book Stevie at 16. It was published in 1969 in Life. Anna Stothard (born 1983) saw her Isabel and Rocco published when she was 19. Jalaluddin Al-Suyuti (c. 1445–1505) wrote his first book, Sharh Al-Isti'aadha wal-Basmalah, at the age of 17. read more