Helen Hooven Santmyer published her bestselling novel *…And Ladies of the Club* when she was 86.
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Jacques Barzon wrote From Dawn to Decadence in his 90s. Fantastic book by the way. Thomas Sowell is in his 90s and just published yet another book. All of his books are great.
Ruth Ozeki is 67 and won the Women’s Prize for Fiction not too long ago with The Book of Form and Emptiness. Highly recommend.
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Norman Maclean was 74 when *A River Runs Through It* was published. *Young Men and Fire* (which is fucking phenomenal) was published posthumously; he would have been 90.
His son, John Maclean, has published five non-fiction works on fatal wildland fires, starting in his early 50s. *Fire On The Mountain* and *The Thirtymile Fire* are both amazing.
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Ernst Jünger published Eine gefährliche Begegnung (A Dangerous Encounter} when he was 87 years old.
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What do you consider “old”?
[Delia Owens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Owens) was 69 when she wrote [Where The Crawdads Sing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36809135-where-the-crawdads-sing?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_5).
Jeff Torrington, *Swing Hammer Swing!*
You might enjoy reading this article. [The All-Time Bestselling Authors Who Debuted After Age 50](https://www.thoughtco.com/bestselling-authors-who-debuted-after-age-50-4047864)
Helen Hooven Santmyer published her bestselling novel *…And Ladies of the Club* when she was 86.
Jacques Barzon wrote From Dawn to Decadence in his 90s. Fantastic book by the way. Thomas Sowell is in his 90s and just published yet another book. All of his books are great.
[The Year of Magical Thinking](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815) by Joan Didion
Ruth Ozeki is 67 and won the Women’s Prize for Fiction not too long ago with The Book of Form and Emptiness. Highly recommend.
Norman Maclean was 74 when *A River Runs Through It* was published. *Young Men and Fire* (which is fucking phenomenal) was published posthumously; he would have been 90.
His son, John Maclean, has published five non-fiction works on fatal wildland fires, starting in his early 50s. *Fire On The Mountain* and *The Thirtymile Fire* are both amazing.
Ernst Jünger published Eine gefährliche Begegnung (A Dangerous Encounter} when he was 87 years old.