>DFW was 24 when Broom of the System was published
    >Zadie Smith was 25 when White Teeth was published
    >Marek Hlasko was 23 when Eighth Day of the Week was published
    >F.S. Fitzgerald was 23 when This Side of Paradise was published
    >Carson McCullers was 23 when The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published
    >Tao Lin was 24 when EEEEE EEE EEEE & Bed were published
    >Italo Calvino was 23 when The Path to the Nest of the Spiders was published
    >Kerouac was 20 when The Sea is My Brother was published
    >Goethe was 25 when The Sorrows of Young Werther was published
    >Musil was 25 when The Confusions of Young Torless was published
    >Hemingway was 25 when In Our Time was published
    >Tatsuhiko Takimoto was 24 when Welcome to the NHK was published
    >Ryu Murakami was 24 when Almost Transparent Blue was published
    >Garcia Marquez was 20 when Eyes of a Blue Dog was published
    >Nietzsche was 18 when "Napoleon III as a President" was published
    >Nietzsche was 18 when "Fate and History" was published
    >Nietzsche was 18 when Free Will and Fate was published
    >Nietzsche was 19 when "Can the Envious Ever Truly Be Happy?" was published
    >Nietzsche was 20 when "On Tendencies" was published
    >Nietzsche was 20 when "My Life" was published
    >Saramago was 25 years old when Land of Sun was published
    >Dickens was 24 when Sketches by Boz was published
    >Dickens was 25 when The Pickwick Papers was published
    >Huxley was 25 when Limbo was published
    >James Joyce was 25 when Chamber Music was published
    >Proust was 25 when Pleasures and Days was published
    >Mishima was 23 when Confessions of a Mask was published
    >Bret Easton Ellis was 21 when Less Than Zero was published
    >Bret Easton Ellis was 23 when Rules of Attraction was published
    >Kenzaburō Ōe was 23 when Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was published
    >Emile Zola was 24 when Contes à Ninon was published
    >Balzac was 20 when Cromwell was published
    >Baudelaire was 24 when Salon of 1845 was published
    >Hitomi Kanehara was 20 when Snakes and Earrings was published
    Stig Dagerman was 23 when Ormen was published