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