List of authors by age at publication of breakthrough work
This is the beginning of a list of authors by age at publication of their breakthrough work. * Charles Dickens: 24 when The Pickwick Papers began serialization * F. Scott Fitzgerald: 24 when This Side of Paradise was published * Ernest Hemingway: 27 when The Sun Also Rises was published * J. D. Salinger: 32 when The Catcher in the Rye was published * Richard Dawkins: 35 when The Selfish Gene was published * Harper Lee: 34 when To Kill a Mockingbird was published * Lucy Maud Montgomery: 34 when Anne of Green Gables was published * Dan Brown: 39 when The Da Vinci Code was published * Eric Carle: 40 when The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published * Gabriel García Márquez: 40 when One Hundred Years of Solitude was published * Benjamin Spock: 43 when Baby and Child Care was published * Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: 44 when The Little Prince was published * J. R. R. Tolkien: 45 when The Hobbit was published * Rick Warren: 48 when The Purpose-Driven Life was published * Stieg Larsson: 51 when The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was published * Richard Adams: 52 when Watership Down was published * Vladimir Nabokov: 56 when Lolita was published * Anna Sewell: 57 when Black Beauty was published