What are the youngest authors (non-YA or Non Fiction) to have

>>9658469
Depends on your definition of literature. But I recall Iain Banks' Wasp Factory was written when he was quite young (like 19)
Also, is pic related the Good Doctor?

>>9658486
my bad, he was middle-aged when that happened

Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights when she was 19.

Dickens was published at 24.

Tolstoy wrote War and Peace in his early 30's.

Dubliners, Joyce was early 20's

kazuo Ishiguro keeps a piece of paper over his desk with the ages of the authors of the great novels (like Tolstoy 30) as a reminded of the urgency of writing. He think genius is a youthful quality and you lose it big time with age.

>>9658469
Christopher Paolini

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>>9658486
>Also, is pic related the Good Doctor?

>>9658519
>non-YA
please

>>9658505
Joyce was writing portrait of the artist, stephen hero, and dubliners, as well as nonfiction essays from his late teens through his early twenties.

I've heard you need to get your foot in the door by 25. I think that was when Pynchon published V.

Frankenstein was written by a 18yo girl.

>>9658469
SE Hinton wrote The Outsiders at age fucking 15

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>>9658505
Welp, urgency didn't do much good to Ishiguro's work.