Five authors who made it when they were young

 Today on inspirathursday! Why don't we take a look at five authors we made it while they were young. 

1. SE.Hinton : 

  SE.Hinton is an   American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school.Hinton is credited with introducing the YA genre.

   While still in her teens, about 16 years old, Hinton became a household name as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. She began writing it in 1965. The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School, the Greasers and the Socs,and her desire to empathize with the Greasers by writing from their point of view.She wrote the novel when she was 16 and it was published in 1967.Since then, the book has sold more than 14 million copies and still sells more than 500,000 a year.

2.Joyce Manyard:  Maynard attended the Oyster River school district and Phillips Exeter Academy. She won Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, and 1971. In her teens, she wrote regularly for Seventeen magazine. She entered Yale University in 1971 and sent a collection of her writings to the editors of The New York Times Magazine. They asked her to write an article, which was published under the title "An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life".

    Maynard has published novels in a wide range of literary genres, including fiction, young adult fiction, and true crime. Her sixth novel, Labor Day (2009), was adapted into the 2013 film of the same name, directed by Jason Reitman. Her most recent novels include The Good Daughters (2010), After Her (2013) and Under the Influence (2016).

3. Helen Oyeyemi:Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi (born 10 December 1984) is a British novelist and writer of short stories. 

Oyeyemi wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while studying for her A-levels[3] at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School. While studying social and political sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, Oyeyemi saw two of her plays, Juniper's Whitening and Victimese, performed by fellow students to critical acclaim, and subsequently published by Methuen.

In 2007 Bloomsbury published Oyeyemi's second novel, The Opposite House, which is inspired by Cuban mythology.  Her third novel, White is for Witching, described as having "roots in Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe", was published by Picador in May 2009. A fourth novel, Mr Fox was published by Picador in June 2011, and a fifth, Boy, Snow, Bird, in 2014.

  Oyeyemi published a story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, in 2016.

    Oyeyemi's latest work, a novel titled Gingerbread, was published 5 March 2019.

4. Brest Easton Ellis : Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director. Ellis was first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack,which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney.

    When Ellis was 21, his first novel, the controversial bestseller Less Than Zero (1985), was published by Simon & Schuster. His third novel, American Psycho (1991), was his most successful;upon its release, the literary establishment widely condemned it as overly violent and misogynistic.Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that year.

4. Percy Shelly:Percy Bysshe Shelley ; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, widely regarded as one of the finest lyric and philosophical poets[citation needed] in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley became a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock and his own second wife, Mary Shelley (the author of Frankenstein).

5.Alec Greven: Alec Greven is a New York Times best-selling child self-help author.His first book, How to Talk to Girls,was published when he was nine years old.He has subsequently published two additional books, How to Talk to Moms and How to Talk to Dads. He released his fourth book, How to Talk to Santa, in 2009, and a fifth book, Rules for School, in 2010.