What do JK Rowling and Stephenie Meyer have in common, apart from the obvious that they are both writers? That they both published their most famous works at the age of thirty-three. This means that there is still hope for many of us to make a big breakthrough. Not all of us are Mozarts, to become famous as children. Even George Orwell, F Scott Fitzgerald and Stephen King were not, but look how big literary names are today.
If you think it's for success too late, you are deeply mistaken. Every day is a new blank slate, offering a fresh perspective, fresh ideas and new opportunities. Sometimes the path to success, to a breakthrough, is unfortunately a bit longer and more tiring. It is necessary to be persistent and not unexpected, because success, if we exclude sports, has no age restrictions. Not at all in the literature, as you will see below. Let's take a look at when famous writers published their most famous work.
- Jack Kerouac he published his first book at the age of 21, and became famous with his fourth work, the novel On the Road, at the age of 26.
- F Scott Fitzgerald became a big name after publishing a work at the age of 30 The Great Gatsby. He needed three works to break through.
- Charles Dickens wrote many works, and after six years of publication, at 32, he died A Christmas song made a big hit, which forever recorded him among the famous literati. He was followed by many other famous works.
- Stephen King, the master of horror, began his best-selling streak at 32 when the novel was published The Stand. Even 43 years later, he has not run out of artistic inspiration.
- Jane Austen she only needed one novel before she created a masterpiece, pride and Prejudice, which went through not only numerous reprints, but also a huge number of screen adaptations. She was 39 years old when she released it.
- Paulo Coelho published his first work at a relatively young age of 28. But between the first and fifth parts, The alchemist, who opened the door for him to the hall of fame of literati, there was a gap of 16 years. In the meantime, he, today one of the most quoted authors, published three more works.
- George Orwell it is Animal farm sent to readers at the age of 43, 11 years after he published his first book. He had strung four of them before, and after that only one more.
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- JRR Tolkien, the father of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, is already with his first work The Hobbit or There and Back Again, like JK Rowling and Stephenie Meyer, made a name for themselves, only "only" at the age of 46, while the authors of Harry Potter and Twilight managed to do it already at 33.
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky he racked up "epic" mileage before creating at 46 Crime and Punishment. Before that, he already had nine works on his coat of arms.
Even better and even more than the short description above, it shows us the matter interactive graphics, where, in addition to which novel launched the writer into the literary stratosphere, we also see when they published their first work and how many titles they published.
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