James Joyce, age six, 1888 Thomas Bernhard, Seekirchen, 1936 (age 5 )
Virginia Woolf, 1895 (15 years old) Daphne du Maurier by Ruth Bartlett, circa 1922 (15 years)
John Steinbeck, 1907 Joseph Conrad, 1863
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
Joseph Roth, 1897 (age 3) Robert Louis Stevenson at age 7, 1857
Albert Camus (1917-1919) Ernest Hemingway writing while on a fishing trip in Michigan, 1916
Arthur Rimbaud at the time of his First Communion, age 11 Gustave Flaubert as a child, drawn by his brother Achille Flaubert
"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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