The Ages of 5 Great Writers When They First Published
For when you need to remember that it’s never too late to start
The pressures of life can really catch up with us. As we get older, we know we need to keep working hard to make sure we can pay the bills and make an effort to keep our savings ticking over.
For many of us, that means taking up jobs in professions we might not really be all that passionate about. All that effort elsewhere can take time away from doing the things we really care about. For many of us, that thing is writing.
The purpose of this article is motivational. By showing you the ages a few writers published their first books at, I hope to emphasize that it’s never too late to start writing, and there’s always time to get going — that is, if you are prepared to find the time for yourself.
One — Ernest Hemingway
Let’s start young and get older as we go. Ernest Hemingway was 24 years old when he published his first work. It was a short story and poetry collection entitled Three Short Stories and Ten Poems, published in 1923.
His first full novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published when he was 27 in 1926. For Whom The Bell Tolls wasn’t published until 1940, and it was not until Hemingway was 53 that The Old…
