young adult writer

Adolescent fiction author

A young adult writer is an author who writes fiction or nonfiction aimed at teenagers and young adults, typically ages 12 to 18.

The phrase describes the audience, not the author's age—young adult writers range from twenty-somethings to octogenarians.

The genre encompasses everything from fantasy epics to realistic stories about first love, identity, and coming of age: She's become one of the most successful young adult writers of the decade.

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debut · manuscript · first draft · protagonist · coming-of-age · found family · dystopian · romance · love triangle · enemies to lovers · fantasy · publisher · bookstore · book tour · fanbase · trilogy · series · cliffhanger ending

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Opposites
target audience age

young adult writerDr. Seuss

Eric Carle · Mo Willems

genre prestige/literary status

young adult writerToni Morrison

"Song of Solomon"

Cormac McCarthy · man of letters · poet laureate

content maturity/thematic approach

young adult writerMarquis de Sade

Writer whose name became perversion

Henry Miller

Family

young, younger, youngest, youngster, youthful, youthfully, youthfulness, adult, adulthood

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Top 500,000
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