Born in Paris in 1818, Gounod began composing music at the precocious age of 12, only to find himself torn between religious studies and secular operas.

He started writing pretentious verses, imitative of Baudelaire and the French Symbolists, at a precocious age.

He had a cosmopolitan education, studied piano and violin beginning in childhood and began composing at a precocious age.

West excelled in academics, starting at the elite Girls' Latin School at the precocious age of 10.

An imaginative writer from a precocious age, Margaret Mitchell began with stories about animals, then progressed to fairy tales and adventure stories.

At the precocious age of 21, Armstrong, still 15 credits shy of a college degree, became the head coach of a Division I team.

Leaving school at the precocious age of 26 the real world was a shock.

He started drawing at a precocious age, began taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago when he was eleven.

He started drawing at a precocious age.

At a precocious age she developed a sense that she was "important, even very important," as she later recalled.