Jack London at the age of nine with his dog Rollo, 1885 Franz Kafka in 1885, at the age of 2
Rainer Maria Rilke, 1878-79 Thomas Mann, age 9
Vladimir Nabokov, 1907 (aged 8) Samuel Beckett


Patricia Highsmith in New York City,c. early 30s Colette (when she was 17 years-old, in 1890
Simone de Beauvoir, 1913 (5 years) Agatha Christie playing the mandolin, aged 8 in 1898
Simone de Beauvoir, 1913 (5 years) Agatha Christie playing the mandolin, aged 8 in 1898
Joseph Roth, 1897 (age 3) Robert Louis Stevenson at age 7, 1857
"Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light,
out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is
when things cease to astonish us."
Eugene Ionesco
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1910
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