What does a young adult author do?
Young adult author writes books for the market of young adults. This market provides readers who range from 12 to adulthood. The young adult author specializes in works that will appeal to adolescent readers and sometimes older readers. This is often a fiction that contains protagonists of young adults dealing with the challenges of adolescence. The market also includes sci-fi, imagination and mainstream literature, as well as various forms of fiction, such as biography and memory. The young adult market was not created until the sixties, after the success of S.E. Hinton's novel Outsiders . The book was written while the Hinton itself was a teenager and introduced Teen protagonists who dealt with the real world problems, and was a critical and popular success and revealed a predominantly unused reader in youth culture. In the 1970s, such as Hinton, Judy Blume and Paul Zindel, they created works that will satisfy this reader. In the age of 80, the young adult market was fully established in the US and elsewhere and to theThe 21st century remained a powerful force.
A young adult author faces some unique challenges. Books of young adults must be written for adolescent readers who may be familiar with complex objects and language. At the same time, the writer cannot speak to the reader, because few teens will tolerate a hint of such treatment. Fears of adolescence are often a primary factor in these books. Especially popular are so -called problem novels that appear teens dealing with social and emotional problems such as non -functional families, drugs or sexuality.
This approach is not controversial. Many young adults found that his works were attacked by parents who felt such an object suitable for young readers. Judy Blume was an early goal of such censors because her honest approach to sexuality of adolescents and other topics in her popular and acknowledged70 years of novels. Many young adult novels have been forbidden since then; Sometimes it actually increases their attraction for adolescents. It seems that discussions about what is suitable for the young adult market is unlikely to end soon.
Problem novels consist of a large segment of the young adult market, but books from a wide range of objects and genres are also included. At the beginning of the 21st century authors fantasy J.K. Rowling and Stephanie Meyer dominated the Harry Potter and Twilight . Although everyone originally identified as a young adult author, they both won readers of all age groups with their popular sagas. Other young adults write biographies, sports stories or even a comedy. Graphic novels, including the Tvy, Japanese comics or manga were also popular with young adult readers at least at the age of 90.