Date of Birth: March 4, 1914Best Known For: The House Without Windows But the most evocative reminder of that peculiarly evanescent moment, a generation's coming into its own, might be the 320-page issue that Granta produced at some speed, largely because there had been so many manuscripts already on hand. At age 18, she gave birth to a son. One of his series, The Monday Night Football Club, was turned into the 4-season TV show "The Jersey" on the Disney Channel; Macdonald Hall, that series he started in 7th grade, was optioned as a TV show, but not produced. At age 19, Mary came up with the idea for Frankenstein while spending the summer in Switzerland and she began writing the manuscript. By 18, Shelley published one novel, Zastrozzi, and 2 collections of poetry, one with his sister Elizabeth and the other with his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg. In 1983, I was the editor of Granta and published a 320-page issue devoted to the so-called "Twenty under forty", otherwise known as Best of Young British Novelists. All of 31 but a whole lot older by experience, Avalok Langer's Debut Novel, In Pursuit … Lauren Groff, 38, was born in New York; her most recent novel, Fates and Furies, was a finalist for the 2016 National Book award and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle award. In 2009, Greven published three more books: How to Talk to Moms, How to Talk to Dads, and How to Talk to Santa. At first, no one much noticed. Jen George, 36, was born and raised in Thousand Oaks, California. Was I about to become a hostage? The age of anxiety: what does Granta’s list say about America. Even writers with a track record of three or four novels could be hard to estimate – perhaps the "unfulfilled promise" of the first might yet be fulfilled by a fifth. I write this as a comfort to those who fail to get on them, and a caution to those who do. Oh, and to top it all off, they're dyslexic. At age 12, Maynard won her first student writing prize from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards; she also won in 1967, 1968, 1970, and 1971. It's a good time to be a reader. History will prove me right. This is what literary magazines do, of course, listen out for a generation's new voice. When he was 16, he joined the staff of his brother's news bureau for the summer. I was judging with Salman Rushdie, Bill Buford and John Mitchinson from Waterstone's. As a child of 12, Pope wrote "Ode on Solitude," which was not published at the time but would later be included in most anthologies of his work. The objective was fairness, not controversy. Some publish only young writers, some publish all ages for young readers. I was glad we chose Peace. I think what makes these lists so interesting is not their infallibility – because there is no such thing in art - but where they deviate from expectations. He has written five novels including Book of Numbers as well as short story collections and a work of non-fiction, Attention! So does AS Byatt. "Funny, melancholy, thought-provoking, inventive … Barlay has thought about the country we live in and how it got to be the way it is – Hilary Mantel." Shortly before Keller's 7th birthday, Anne Sullivan arrived to serve as her instructor. Finally we made lists, numbering the writers and knocking off the ones with the fewest votes, and then making new lists. It is foul-mouthed, marginal, irreverent, unpatriotic, and deeply inappropriate. As a teenager, she was a writer for Seventeen magazine while she attended Phillips Exeter Academy for high school. Why not "Twenty, forty and under"? The list itself was offered up as a given. For 3 years, Hinton suffered writer's block as a result of the publicity and pressure--including being dubbed "The Voice of the Youth"--surrounding The Outsiders. Before age 23, Drouet had published 2 more books. At age 17, as she started classes at Yale, Maynard submitted her work to the New York Times Magazine, who hired her to write an article. Ned Beauman (1985) was born in London and currently … Donald Antrim. Everyone likes a horse race. Dinaw Mengestu, 39, was born in Ethiopia and raised in Illinois.