Tim FinchДЄ former BBC political journalist and communications director for the Refugee Council, Tim Finch is the author of the 2013 debut novel, House of Journalists, which was published when he was 51. The book received the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction when it was published in 1984. In the 1950s, she and her husband moved to Mexico, where they stayed until his death in 1972.ДЄfterwards, Doerr moved back to California, finished her degree at Stanford, and drafted her first novel, Stones for Ibarra, a story inspired by her time in Mexico. She attended Stanford University but left in her junior year to raise a family. Harriet DoerrД«orn in the early 1900s, Harriet Doerr grew up in wealth as the granddaughter of a California railroad developer. The book was published (by Mark Twain, interestingly enough) upon GrantвЂ™s death in 1885 and quickly became a bestseller. Despite being in significant pain during the memoirвЂ™s creation, Grant regularly completed dozens of pages per day. He rushed to complete the work before succumbing to throat cancer in hopes of having the book support his family in perpetuity. Grant, created his renowned Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. The 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Kaufman didnвЂ™t stop there his second novel, Misadventure, was published after the authorвЂ™s death two years later.

Entitled Bowl of Cherries, the book was published in 2007, when Kaufman was 90 years old. His first novel, though, came out towards the end of his life. Magoo, Millard Kaufman had an extensive career as a screenwriter, earning several Oscar nominations for his work. She would go on to complete a total of eight autobiographical childrenвЂ™s novels in the still-beloved series. It was published by Harper & Brothers in 1932, when Wilder was 64. When her family lost much of its net worth in the stock market crash of 1929, she began work on what would become her first book, Little House in the Big Woods. Wilder first honed her storytelling skills as a schoolteacher and then as a writer and editor for Missouri Ruralist and other publications.

Laura Ingalls WilderД«orn into a Wisconsin pioneer family, Laura Ingalls Wilder drew on her childhood experiences on the American frontier to create the hugely popular Little House on the Prairie series.

He penned several more books before his death, including вЂ™Tis in 1999 and Teacher Man in 2005, which chronicle his experiences living and teaching high school in New York City. He was 66 when it was published.ДЄngelaвЂ™s Ashes, which recounted McCourtвЂ™s upbringing in poverty in Ireland and the United States, was just the beginning for the author. Frank McCourtДЇrank McCourtвЂ™s first book, AngelaвЂ™s Ashes, won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, earned a National Book Critics Circle Award, and was adapted into a major motion picture. HereвЂ™s a wide-ranging sample of authors, from pioneers to presidents, who published their first work in the second half of their life.

For aspiring writers, especially those not in their twenties or thirties, it can be all too easy to look at the career timelines of literatureвЂ™s most publicized stars and think that itвЂ™s a game best left to the young.ДЄ closer look reveals a different truth: Whether youвЂ™re 20 or 90, itвЂ™s never too late to start writing and publish your first book. Jonathan Safran Foer published Everything Is Illuminated at age 25 and Haruki MurakamiвЂ™s first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, was published when he was 29 - and theyвЂ™re far from the only notable authors to start young. Many authors who didnвЂ™t start writing until they were in their fifties, sixties, and seventies (and older!) have made their mark with critics and readers. Writing isnвЂ™t just a young personвЂ™s game.

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