Childhood | Photos of Famous Authors ( F. Scott Fitzgerald, Albert Camus, James Joyce, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Arthur Rimbaud, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, Jack London, Thomas Bernhard, Joseph Roth, Thomas Mann,Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov)

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Photos of Famous Authors ( F. Scott Fitzgerald, Albert Camus, James Joyce, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Arthur Rimbaud, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, Jack London, Thomas Bernhard, Joseph Roth, Thomas Mann,Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov)
James Joyce, age six, 1888                                  Thomas Bernhard, Seekirchen, 1936 (age 5 )

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Virginia Woolf, 1895 (15 years old)                       Daphne du Maurier by Ruth Bartlett, circa 1922 (15 years)
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John Steinbeck, 1907                                                         Joseph Conrad, 1863
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Jack London at the age of nine with his dog Rollo, 1885                  Franz Kafka in 1885, at the age of 2
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Rainer Maria Rilke, 1878-79                                                      Thomas Mann, age 9
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Vladimir Nabokov, 1907 (aged 8)                                   Samuel Beckett
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Patricia Highsmith in New York City,c. early 30s               Colette (when she was 17 years-old, in 1890

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Simone de Beauvoir, 1913 (5 years)                            Agatha Christie playing the mandolin, aged 8 in 1898

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Joseph Roth, 1897 (age 3)                          Robert Louis Stevenson at age 7, 1857
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Albert Camus (1917-1919)                          Ernest Hemingway writing while on a fishing trip in Michigan, 1916

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Arthur Rimbaud at the time of his First Communion, age 11                           Gustave Flaubert as a child, drawn by his brother Achille Flaubert
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“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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