At 19, he dropped out of college—at 42, he's a bestseller: 'My last novel just debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times'

Award-winning author TJ Klune ("The House in the Cerulean Sea") on when he felt able to quit his day job and when he first felt like he'd made it as a writer.

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