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
 
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