Tuesday, December 30, 2008

History of YA

There's an interesting piece over at agent Chip MacGregor's about the history of YA fiction, and what makes a YA novel different from an adult novel. It includes this tidbit: the labelling of 14-year-olds as "young adult" dates from the early 1800s.

Read the whole thing here (the answer to the third question).

1 comment:

Erin O'Brien said...

Hi Dal. Thanks for visiting and commenting over at my place.