Teenage Authors
November 12th, 2007 by --KALEB NATION--
It has become quite interesting discovering how many authors were first published as teenagers. This is certainly an encouragement, as for the longest I thought Paolini was the only teenage writer and author. I discovered that there are quite a few others who were published as teens, some of them below:
Catherine Webb
Eze Imade Eribo
S.E. Hinton’s first book was the Outsiders, the second biggest selling book for Young Adults in publishing history- over 8 million in print! Christopher Paolini’s first book was out when he was 19 and has sold over 9 million as well.
This is a growing list, so if you know any more email me and I’ll add them.
–Added November 14 2007 - Thanks Cat- I added Catherine Webb
–Added November 19 2007 - Thanks Mimi- I added Eze Eribo.
–Added November 27 2007 - Thanks Feliza, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is an eccellent example of a teenage author. I had never heard of her until now but she is obviously quite popular
–Added December 3 2007 - Nancy Yi Fan was 12 when her first book came out and hit the bestsellers, but she still certainly deserves to be on this list. She’s got a sequel coming out soon.
–Added December 6 2007 - Flavia Bujor was 13 when she wrote her first book and is already working on a second novel for Hyperion. Thanks Feliza for the info!
–Added February 22, 2008 - I just discovered that the famous Danielle Steel, who has sold over 560 million books, was first published at 19.
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November 12th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Catherine Webb is another teen author. I haven’t read any of her books, though, so I don’t know if they’re any good.
November 14th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Thanks Cat, she’s added to the list
November 15th, 2007 at 1:32 am
I’ve never read any of the books those authors wrote. But I do know who Christopher Paolini is, that the guy who wrote Eragon…and he’s probably earning a lot of money from it.
November 17th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Hey,have u heard about Eze Imade Eribo? she’s 16 & she just published a collection of short stories & poems,called “Pieces of me”.Its extremely wicked.
November 23rd, 2007 at 11:20 am
Thanks Mimi- the only place I could find Eze was her publisher site, but I added her anyway.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:45 am
There’s also Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, who published plenty of books. Her first, In the Forests of the Night, was published I believe when she was fourteen. Those books are absolutely brilliant.
December 5th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
I had no idea that SE Hinton was a teenager when she wrote The Outsiders! Cool!!
Kaza Kingsley
Author of the Erec Rex series
http://www.erecrex.com
December 5th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Right, Susan Eloise Hinton published the Outsiders when she was 19. Thanks for commenting!
December 6th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Oh, yeah… forgot about Flavia Bujour. Fourteenw hen her novel (in French) hit the international bestsellers’ list.
December 9th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
you can add to your list of Adora Svitak (www.adorasvitak.com) who is the yougest author in the world in terms of the level of her talent in writing, she composed a 296 pages book between 6 and 7, the book Flying Finers was published when she was seven, now a teacher at 11, she is teaching writing and poetry.