She was twenty-four when she wrote "The Secret of the Old Clock" and other early Nancy Drew books.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

He was eighty-seven years old. Doctor Seuss's influence remains through the books he wrote and illustrated.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Many of his most famous books were written before he was thirty years old.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Nevada Barr remembers reading Nancy Drew books the summer she was eleven years old.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

She remembers that young girls often considered the original books too old fashioned.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Among his best books are "The Old Man and The Sea."

VOA: special.2010.04.09

More surprised than most by the event's success is Stan Lee - the 87-year old co-creator of Spiderman and Iron Man comic books.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

He was a bestselling author of numerous books. He had a loving marriage and twin three-year-old girls.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

In a protest against him on Monday in the city of Lviv, Ukraine's Congress of Young Nationalists collected old Soviet history books to turn them into pulp.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17