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This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007.
Born and raised in New York City, Stead enjoyed her elementary school years and fondly remembers reading books in a windowsill or under a table. [5] She attended Vassar College and received her bachelors degree in 1989. [6] Rebecca Stead is married to attorney Sean O'Brien and has two sons. [2] She and her family live on the Upper West Side of ...
This is a list of notable writers whose readership is predominantly teenagers or young adults, or adult fiction writers who have published significant works intended for teens/young adults. Examples of the author's more notable works are given here.
Elizabeth Acevedo is an American poet and author. [1] In September 2022, the Poetry Foundation named her the year's Young People's Poet Laureate. [2]Acevedo is the author of the young adult novels The Poet X, With the Fire on High, and Clap When You Land.
Jacqueline Bublitz was born to John and Jo Bublitz and is the youngest of five children who were raised in Waitara, New Zealand. She attended New Plymouth Girls High School and was an exchange student with AFS in 1993. She is called "Rocky" by friends and close acquaintances, which is an abbreviation of her middle name Rochelle. [3]
During a trip to Israel in 2008, Stone discovered that she wanted to become a writer when encountering a family with a story that fascinated her. [5] Stone wrote her first novel for young adults in 2017, inspired by American young adult novelist Veronica Roth's Divergent series because it was the first series featuring Black characters that she encountered that live until the end. [5]
Henríquez attended Northwestern University; she majored in English, graduating in 1999. [8] She then earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. [9] She has described her time in the Iowa program as "a great experience", [10] highly valuable both for validating her writing as well as developing her skills: "I have all my notebooks...and I still open them every once in a while to find ...
David Alexander Robertson (born 12 January 1977) is a Canadian author and public speaker from Winnipeg, Manitoba.He has published over 25 books across a variety of genres and is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award [1] His first novel, The Evolution of Alice, was published in 2014. [2]