Authors/Titles of famous or not-so-famous writers who wrote as teens -------------------------------------------------------------------- compiled by Betsy Levine from YALSA-BK, December 1999 The titles can be fiction or non-fiction and they could have been written when the writer was a teen but not published until much later. Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia In the Forests of the Night Apollo Concrete Candy Filipovic, Zlata Zlata s Diary Frank, Anne Diary of a Young Girl Franklin, Miles My Brilliant Career Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders, etc. Hunter, Latoya The Diary of Latoya Hunter Korman, Gordon This Can't be happening at McDonald Hall (& other titles) Libby, Megan McNeil Postcards from France Pilkey, Dav World War Won Shandler, Sara, ed. Opelia Speaks Sheedy, Ally She Was Nice to Mice and from Looksmart: >Gore Vidal - Published his first book at 19 >http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/vidalframe.html > >Carson McCullers - First short story published at 19 >http://www.carson-mccullers.com/ > >Mark Twain - According to this site, he was first published at 18 >http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Tower/6326/samclemens.htm >John Keats - Poet started writing at the age of 19 >http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~pjh/index.html > >Arthur Rimbaud - First published at 15 >http://www.ub2.lu.se/~biblutb/proj7/Rimbaud.html > >You can find all kinds of biographical information about famous authors in this LookSmart category: > >Library - Humanities - Literature - Authors - Author Directories >http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/eus317836/eus317911/eus53869/eus166639/eus213 871/