Mattie Stepanek

Mattie Stepanek is a literature from United States (born 1990-07-17). Published his first poetry book Journey Through Heartsongs at age 11 and produced seven bestselling Heartsongs volumes between ages 11 and 13, becoming a New York Times bestselling poet and peace advocate before his death in 2004. Mattie was 11 when it happened.

Early achievement is only meaningful when it is measured against adults. The distinction that matters is not precocity in the abstract but documented output at a standard competent adults are held to.

What separates a documented record from a family anecdote is that someone else wrote it down at the time. Mattie's is recorded in published reference sources, with a date and a figure attached, and that is the standard applied to every entry in this index. Where an age or a date is disputed in the sources, this page follows the published record and says so rather than choosing the more impressive number.

Born in 1990-07-17, Mattie belongs to a long line of United States names in this field, and the entry is maintained as new results are published.

Records like this one rarely survive untouched. The age thresholds that define early achievement keep falling as training methods, coaching and access to competition spread to more countries, and each generation of literatures reaches the standard a little sooner than the last. Whether Mattie's mark has since been beaten is noted above; the achievement itself is fixed to its date and stands on the record as it was set.