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Christopher Jordan's avatar

S.E. Hinton.

Though I still cannot understand how an actual teenager was as bad as she was at writing teenage dialogue (maybe she never talked to anyone in high school?), I think she qualifies as a "teenager who wrote a good novel."

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Geoff Rodkey's avatar

Good one!

I'm too lazy to revise the article to reflect this, but yeah, that qualifies.

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Amy B's avatar

Very funny! I was going to offer Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter to rebuff the idea that teens can’t write great literature, but she was 23 when she wrote it.

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