Have you seen these photos of famous authors as teenagers?
The best are the ones with some text around them—for example, a local newspaper’s write-up of Flannery O’Connor’s youthful books about geese, and a yearbook description of “Peggy” Atwood’s “not-so-secret ambition…to write THE Canadian novel.”
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