Teen prodigy authors

We now have two books in the library written by authors in their teens. Christopher Paolini began writing Eragorn (813 P196e) when he was fifteen. Now nineteen, he's already working on the second book of this fantasy trilogy. Unfortunately, our copy is presently on reserve in the Education and Social Sciences Library, most likely an assigned reading for some future teacher. I should have such assigned reading...

But you can get your hands on new arrival The Prophecy of the Stones (823 B869p), written by Flavia Bujor when she was twelve, published when she was thirteen. The reviews are not all glowing, but readers don't seem to care.

Let's see, at twelve I was...I was... well, let's just say I was NOT writing a book that would have an initial print run of 65,000 copies in the United States.