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Francoise Sagan was 17 when she wrote Bonjour Tristesse. The Outsiders was written by S. E. Hinton in her junior year of high school. Christopher Paolini penned Eragon of the Inheritance series when he was 15. At 19, he was a New York Times best seller.The Diary of Anne Frank was journaled when she was thirteen. Before her 20th birthday, Mary Shelley had completed the Frankenstein manuscript.
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Anya Reiss (born 1991) had her first play Spur of the Moment staged in London in July 2010, directed by Jeremy Herrin. The work won the 2010 TMA Award for Best New Play; the Evening Standard and the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. ZK Lowenfels is a 20 yearold, and this summer when her play stages at the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival, she will be the youngest playwright in America. Charles Hart, 26, is credited with the lyrics for Webber’s Phantom of the Opera.
Ben Affleck was 25 when he won the Oscar for Goodwill Hunting in 1997. The Oscar was awarded on March 24th 1998 for Best Original Screenplay. Orson Wells was 26 when he won Best Original Screenplay for Citizen Cane in 1941and he was awarded the Oscar on February 26th 1942. At 26, Josh Schwartz became one of the youngest persons in network history to create a network series and run its day-to-day production when he ran The O.C. Cameron Crowe penned his first script; Fast Times at Ridgemont High in1982 when he was 25.
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