They wrote bestsellers and/or future classics before age 25

Some were teens when they wrote their breakthrough novels

To write a great novel (or even a decent one), it seems that a writer should have a certain amount of life experience. But that’s not always the case — not in the past, and not in the present.

Today I’m presenting seven books written when their authors were precocious young women — some still in their teens. Some have become iconic classics; others sold…