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A. A. Milne

British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh (1882–1956)

A. J. Butcher

author

A. M. Homes

novelist and memoirst from the United States

A. M. Jenkins

American children's writer

A. Manette Ansay

novelist

Aaron Reynolds

American children's writer

Adam Blade

Beast Quest is a best-selling British series of children's fantasy–adventure novels produced by Working Partners Ltd and written by several authors all using the house name Adam Blade. As of October 2024, the main series had achieved a total of 154 books, Master Your Destiny and Special Editions published, and over 20 million copies of the books have been sold altogether since March 2007.

Adam Rex

American children's illustrator and writer

Adam Rubin

American author born 1983

Adele Dueck

Dora is a female name of Greek origin, being a shortened form or derived from Dorothea (Dorothy) and Theodora, meaning "gift" or in its full form "god's gift", from δῶρον, doron, "gift" + θεός, theos, "god". The name Dora can also be a short form of other names containing -dora such as Eudora and Isadora (Isidora). Dora was used as an English equivalent for the name Doirend or Doireann in Ireland. Doreen, Dorian, and Dorinda are other examples of names from the same root form.

Adèle Geras

British novelist and poet

Adele Griffin

American children's writer

Adeline Yen Mah

author and physician

Aesop

Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales associated with him are characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters.

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan, usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers, particularly in the mystery genre.

Aidan Chambers

Aidan Chambers was a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999). For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.

Alan Arkin

American actor, filmmaker (1934–2023)

Alan Davidson

British diplomat (1924–2003)

Alan Durant

(1958- )

Alan Schroeder

American writer

Alan Zweibel

American producer

Alane Ferguson

Alane Ferguson is an American author. She won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery novel in 1990 for Show Me the Evidence.

Albert Martin

Quebec novelist

Alex Flinn

American children's writer

Alex Haley

American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist (1921–1992)

Alex Shearer

British novelist

Alex T. Smith

English author

Alexandra Day

writer

Alexandra Whitney

Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewen Burke is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She won the fifth series of the talent television show The X Factor in 2008. Following the show, she was signed to Syco Music and released the winner's single "Hallelujah", which became the European record holder for the most singles sold over a period of 24 hours, selling 105,000 in one day, and became the top-selling single of 2008 in the UK and the UK's Christmas 2008 number one.

Alexandra Wright

Alexandra Wright is a British Liberal rabbi who was appointed as the first female senior rabbi in England in 2004, as Rabbi of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John's Wood, London. She is President of Liberal Judaism in the United Kingdom.

Alfred Slote

Alfred Slote is an American children's author known for his numerous sports and space novels. His writing has been described as "making space travel seem as ordinary as piling in the family wagon for a jaunt to McDonald's". Slote's 1991 novel Finding Buck McHenry was adapted into a 2000 television film. He currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2012 Slote and his baseball book Jake were the subject of an ESPN 30 for 30 short documentary in which Slote describes his writing process and reads from the book, saying it is his best writing.

Alice Dalgliesh

American children's book editor and writer

Alice Hoffman

American novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer (born 1952)

Alice Low

American writer

Alice McGill

American storyteller and children's writer

Alice McLerran

anthropologist and author

Alice Mead

American author

Alice Provensen

American illustrator (1918-2018)

Alice Schertle

poet and children's writer (born 1941)

Alison Acheson

Canadian writer of fiction for adults and children

Alison Lester

author and illustrator (born 1952)

Alison McGhee

American novelist

Allan Ahlberg

British children's writer (1938–2025)

Allan Baillie

Australian writer

Allan W. Eckert

American writer (1931–2011)

Allan Wolf

American author

Allen Say

Japanese-American author and illustrator

Ally Carter

American writer

Alma Flor Ada

Cuban-American author and poet

Alvin Schwartz

American author (1927–1992)

Alvin Tresselt

Alvin Tresselt was a graphic designer and American children's book author. His picture book White Snow, Bright Snow received the Caldecott Medal. One of his most popular books was his retelling of the Ukrainian folktale The Mitten, illustrated by Yaroslava Mills.

Alyssa Satin Capucilli

Alyssa Satin Capucilli is an American author of children's fiction. She is best known as the author of the Biscuit series, which began with the book Biscuit in 1996. The Biscuit series has sold over 21 million copies globally as of 2016, making it one of the most successful and popular children's book series of all time. The books in the Biscuit series are part of the I Can Read! series published by HarperCollins and are often among the first books children learn to read.

Amanda Graham

Matilda is a 1996 American fantasy comedy film based on Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda and starring Mara Wilson as Matilda Wormwood. It is co-produced and directed by Danny DeVito from a screenplay by Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord. The film also features DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, and Pam Ferris in supporting roles. The plot centers on the titular child prodigy who develops psychokinetic abilities and uses them to deal with her abusive family and the tyrannical principal of her school.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

American author of fantasy and young adult literature

Amy Efaw

writer

Amy Ehrlich

children's author

Amy Hest

American writer

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

author, a radio show host and producer, and filmmaker

Amy Schwartz

American author and illustrator of children's books (1954-2023)

Anatoli Boukreev

Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev was a Russian-born Kazakh mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above 8,000 m (26,247 ft)—without supplemental oxygen. From 1989 through 1997, he made 18 successful ascents of peaks above 8,000 m.

Anders Jacobsson

Swedish children's and youth writer

Andrea Beaty

American children's author

Andrea Davis Pinkney

American writer

Andrew Clements

American writer

Andy Griffiths

Australian children's author

Andy Rash

Robert Elmer Balaban is an American actor and filmmaker. Aside from his acting career, Balaban has directed three feature films, in addition to numerous television episodes and films, and was one of the producers nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Gosford Park (2001), in which he also appeared. He is also an author of children's novels.

Angela Elwell Hunt

American writer

Angela Johnson

American poet, children's writer

Angela McAllister

British creator

Angela Royston

Children's book writer and editor

Angie Sage

Angie Sage is an English author of children's literature, including the Septimus Heap series, the TodHunter Moon trilogy, and the Araminta Spook series.

Anita Ganeri

British children's writer

Anita Jeram

English picture book illustrator and writer (born 1965)

Anita Lobel

American children's illustrator and writer

Anita Shreve

American writer (1946–2018)

Ann Brashares

American children's writer

Ann Cameron

Ann Stephenson Cameron is an American former professional tennis player. She competed under her maiden name, Ann Stephenson, until her marriage to TV news reporter Alex Cameron.

Ann Grifalconi

American illustrator and writer

Ann Head

American writer

Ann Herbert Scott

American children's book author

Ann Jonas

American children's writer and illustrator (1932–2013)

Ann M. Martin

American writer of children's literature

Ann McGovern

American children's writer

Ann Nolan Clark

American writer (1896-1995)

Ann Rinaldi

Ann Rinaldi was an American journalist and young adult fiction author. She was best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, Numbering All The Bones and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons. She wrote more than forty novels(54 to be exact), eight of which were listed as notable by the ALA. In 2000, Wolf by the Ears was listed as one of the best young adult novels of the preceding twenty-five years, and later of the last one hundred years. She also wrote for the Dear America series.

Ann Turner

American poet and children's author

Anna Claybourne

British author

Anna Dewdney

Anna Elizabeth Dewdney was an American author and illustrator of children's books. The first book she wrote and illustrated, Llama Llama Red Pajama, received critical acclaim in 2005. She wrote numerous other books in the Llama Llama series, which have all been New York Times bestsellers. Her work has been adapted into stage plays, dance performances, musicals, and an animated television series for Netflix. Many states and non-profits use her books for literacy campaigns and programs, including the Library of Congress.

Anna Gavalda

French author

Anna Grossnickle Hines

American children's book author and illustrator

Anna Myers

Anna Balmer Myers was an American author of novels and poetry featuring the local color of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In addition to her writing career Myers spent more than 35 years teaching at a Philadelphia school for physically disabled students.

Anna Quindlen

American journalist and novelist (born 1952)

Anna Sewell

English novelist

Anna Wilson

UK-born author (1954- ), now in the US

Anne F. Rockwell

American illustrator

Anne Fine

British writer (born 1947)

Anne Frank

German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)

Anne Gutman

French creator

Anne Holm

Danish writer (1922–1998)

Anne Hunter

British poet (1742-1821)

Anne Isaacs

American author

Anne Lindbergh

Anne Spencer Lindbergh was an American writer, primarily of children's novels. She was the daughter of aviators/authors Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

Anne Mazer

American children's writer

Anne McCaffrey

American-Irish novelist (1926–2011)

Anne Rooney

British writer

Anne Tyler

American novelist

Annette Curtis Klause

American writer and librarian

Annie Bryant

The Beacon Street Girls (BSG) is a young adult book series by Annie Bryant. Addie Swartz created the series, which B*tween Productions initially published and later licensed by Simon & Schuster

Anthony Browne

British author (born 1946)

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony John Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the Alex Rider series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, The Power of Five series, and The Diamond Brothers series.

Antoine Léonard Thomas

French poet (1732-1785)

Anu Stohner

Finnish writer

April Pulley Sayre

American author

Aranka Siegal

Hungarian born American writer

Ardath Mayhar

American writer and poet (1930–2012)

Arlene Mosel

American children's librarian, educator, and writer

Armstrong Sperry

American writer and illustrator (1897-1976)

Arnold Adoff

American poet and children's writer (1935–2021)

Arnold Lobel

Arnold Stark Lobel was an American author and illustrator of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series (1970–79) and Mouse Soup (1977). He also authored Fables, a 1981 Caldecott Medal winner for best-illustrated U.S. picture book. Lobel also illustrated books by other writers, including Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley.

Arthur C. Clarke

British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)

Arthur Dorros

Children's writer and illustrator

Arthur Golden

American novelist

Arthur Slade

Canadian author

Arthur Yorinks

American writer and director

Ashley Bryan

American children's writer and illustrator

Audrey Couloumbis

American children's author

Audrey Penn

American children's writer

Audrey Wood

American children's writer

B. B. Hiller

Barbara "Bonnie" Bryant Hiller is an American author; as Bonnie Bryant she wrote many children's and young adult books; she is best known for writing the intermediate horse book series The Saddle Club, which was published by Bantam Books from October 1988 until November 2001. She also wrote as B. B. Hiller.

Barbara Bottner

Children's author

Barbara Brenner

Barbara Brenner was an American breast cancer activist, after activist and legal work on several other causes, including anti-Vietnam War activism, women's rights, civil rights, and employment discrimination. She led the organization Breast Cancer Action, which critiqued orthodoxy regarding the cancer, with which she had been diagnosed in 1993 and 1996. She was partners for 38 years with Suzanne Lampert, her partner since graduate school at Princeton University. She died at the age of 61 on May 10, 2013.

Barbara Brooks Wallace

American children's writer (1922-2018)

Barbara Cohen

American author of children's literature

Barbara Cooney

American writer and illustrator of children's books

Barbara Dana

author of young adult novels

Barbara Emberley

children's writer

Barbara Hall

American television producer

Barbara M. Joosse

American children's writer

Barbara McClintock

Children's author and illustrator

Barbara Moross

John Treville Latouche (La Touche) (November 13, 1914, Baltimore, Maryland – August 7, 1956, Calais, Vermont) was a lyricist and bookwriter in American musical theater.

Barbara Nichol

Canadian writer

Barbara O'Connor

American writer

Barbara Park

American juvenile author (1947-2013)

Barbara Robinson

American author best known for her children's books (1927–2013)

Barbara Taylor

British historian

Barbara Williams

American author and professor

Barry Moser

Barry Moser is an American visual artist and educator, known as a printmaker specializing in wood engravings, and an illustrator of numerous works of literature. He is also the owner and operator of the Pennyroyal Press, an engraving and small book publisher founded in 1970.

Barry Yourgrau

actor

Barthe DeClements

American author

Beatrice Gormley

American children's writer known for biography and historical fiction

Beatrix Potter

British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)

Ben M. Baglio

American book packager

Ben Mikaelsen

Ben Mikaelsen is a Bolivian American writer of children's literature.

Benedict Freedman

American mathematician and writer

Berkeley Breathed

American cartoonist

Berlie Doherty

Berlie Doherty is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal. She has also written novels for adults, plays for theatre and radio, television series and libretti for children's opera.

Bernadette Watts

British writer and illustrator

Bernard Ashley

British children's writer

Bernard Waber

American children's writer and illustrator

Bernard Wiseman

Bernard Wiseman was an American author and illustrator of children's books along with cartoons for adults. Between 1958 and 1995, Wise wrote and illustrated dozens of humorous picture books including the popular Morris and Boris series.

Bethany Roberts

American children's author

Betsy Byars

American children's writer (1928–2020)

Betsy Cromer Byars

Betsy Byars was an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Night Swimmers (1980) and an Edgar Award for Wanted... Mud Blossom (1991).

Betsy Gould Hearne

US author (1942 - )

Betsy Haynes

Betsy Haynes is an American author who has written seventy-nine novels in the genres of history, mysteries, supernatural, ghost stories and comedies.

Betsy James

American youth fiction writer and illustrator

Betsy Lewin

American children's illustrator and writer

Betsy Maestro

American writer

Bette Bao Lord

Bette Bao Lord is a Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights and democracy.

Bette Greene

American children's writer (1934–2020)

Betty G. Birney

American creator

Betty Paraskevas

writer and lyricist

Betty Ren Wright

American writer (1927-2013)

Betty Tatham

American author of children's books

Beverley Naidoo

Beverley Naidoo is a South African author of children's books who lives in the UK. Her first three novels featured life in South Africa where she lived until her twenties. She has also written a biography of the trade unionist Neil Aggett.

Beverly Cleary

Beverly Atlee Cleary was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. She was one of America's most successful authors: 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. Some of her best known characters are Ramona Quimby and Beezus Quimby, Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, and Ralph S. Mouse.

Beverly Keller

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Beverly Lewis

American writer

Bill Brittain

William E. Brittain was an American writer. He is best known for work set in the fictional New England village of Coven Tree, including The Wish Giver, a Newbery Honor Book.

Bill Cosby

American actor and comedian

Bill Crider

American writer

Bill Gutman

The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Braves compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East Division. The club was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1871 as the Boston Red Stockings. The Braves are one of two remaining National League charter franchises that debuted in 1876 and are the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in North America. The franchise was known by various names until it adopted the Boston Braves name in 1912.

Bill Peet

Artist, illustrator, author, animator and story teller (1915-2002)

Bill Wallace

American author of children's books

Bjarne Reuter

Danish children's writer

Blake Nelson

American writer

Blue Balliett

American children's author

Bob Graham

Australian picture book illustrator and writer

Bob Wright

American political candidate and author

Brad Barkley

American writer

Brad Collins

Bradley Ray Collins is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL League One club Burton Albion, on loan from EFL Championship club Coventry City.

Brad Strickland

American writer

Bram Stoker

Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)

Brandon Mull

American fiction writer

Brandon Sanderson

American fantasy writer (born 1975)

Breena Clarke

African-American scholar and writer of fiction

Brenda A. Ferber

American novelist

Brenda Clark

Canadian writer

Brett Harvey

journalist

Brett Helquist

American artist (born 1966)

Brian Floca

Brian Kane Floca is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for illustrating books written by Avi and for nonfiction picture books. In 2014, he won the Caldecott Medal for his book, Locomotive, as well as the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Honor.

Brian Jacques

British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels (1939–2011)

Brian Lies

American writer

Brian Meehl

American puppeteer (born 1952)

Brian Moses

British poet

Brian P. Cleary

American writer

Brian Selznick

Brian Selznick is an American illustrator and author best known as the writer of The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), Wonderstruck (2011), The Marvels (2015) and Kaleidoscope (2021). He won the 2008 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration recognizing The Invention of Hugo Cabret. He is also known for illustrating children's books such as the covers of Scholastic's 20th-anniversary editions of the Harry Potter series.

Brian Wildsmith

British illustrator (1930-2016)

Brian Williams

British illustrator, born 1956

Brock Cole

American children's illustrator and writer

Brock Thoene

American historical novelist

Brod Bagert

American children's book author

Bruce Balan

American novelist

Bruce Brooks

Bruce Brooks is an American writer of young adult and children's literature.

Bruce Coville

Bruce Farrington Coville is an author of young adult fiction. Coville was first published in 1977 and has written over 100 books.

Bruce McMillan

American writer

Bryan Collier

American children's illustrator and writer

Bryan Davis

American writer

Bryce Courtenay

Australian novelist (1933–2012)

Burke Davis

writer and historian of North Carolina

Buzz Aldrin

American astronaut (born 1930)

Byrd Baylor

Byrd Baylor was an American novelist, essayist, and author of picture books for children. Four of her books have achieved Caldecott Honor status.

Byron Barton

Byron Barton was an American writer and illustrator of children's picture books. His works received six ALA Notable Book Awards, five SLJ Best Books of the Year selections, and two Reading Rainbow picks.

C. S. Adler

American children's writer

C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles and The Problem of Pain.

Camille Yarbrough

Camille Yarbrough is an American singer, dancer, actress, poet, activist, television producer, and author. She is best known for the song "Take Yo' Praise", which was later sampled by Fatboy Slim in his song "Praise You". "Take Yo' Praise" was originally recorded in 1975 for Yarbrough's debut album, The Iron Pot Cooker, released on Vanguard Records. Yarbrough stated that the song was written for "all the people who had come through the black civil rights movement, who had stood up for truth and righteousness and justice, because human beings need to praise and respect one another more than they do". The Iron Pot Cooker was based on the 1971 stage dramatization of Yarbrough's one-woman, spoken word show, Tales and Tunes of an African American Griot. She toured nationally with this show during the 1970s and 1980s. Yarbrough's second album, Ancestor House, is a spoken word/soul/blues album that she released on her own record label, Maat Music, in 2003. Ancestor House was recorded live at Joe's Pub in New York City.

Candace Fleming

American children's writer

Candace Savage

Canadian nature and science writer

Candice F. Ransom

author

Candy Dawson Boyd

American writer, activist and educator

Carl Deuker

American writer

Carl Hiaasen

American novelist

Carl Sandburg

American writer and editor (1878–1967)

Carl Sommer

American businessman

Carlo Collodi

Italian writer (1826–1890)

Carmen Agra Deedy

American children's writer, storyteller

Carol Ballard

British writer

Carol Beach York

Carol Beach York was an American author of juvenile novels. Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, she is best known for novels in the mystery/suspense genre, and for the Butterfield Square Series, which includes Good Charlotte, from which the pop rock band Good Charlotte took its name.

Carol Carrick

born:1935-05-20|died:2013|; Carrick, Carol, 1935-; Carrick, Carol 1935-2013

Carol Ellis

author

Carol Fenner

American children's writer

Carol Gorman

Carol Gorman is an American writer of children's fiction. She originally aspired to be an actress, and for a few years taught seventh grade at an Iowan middle school. Inspired by her husband and fellow author, Ed Gorman, she began writing in the mid-1980s. With over 22 books published under several names, Carol Gorman continues to write and teach.

Carol Haas

La Vergne is a city in Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 38,719 at the 2020 census. La Vergne lies within the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Carol Hoff

Christina Marie Hoff Sommers is an American author and philosopher. Specializing in ethics, she is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Sommers is known for her critique of contemporary feminism. Her work includes the books Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War Against Boys (2000). She also hosts a video blog called The Factual Feminist.

Carol Kendall

American writer (1917-2012)

Carol Matas

Canadian writer

Carol Snow

American poet

Carol Weston

American writer

Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Michele Weatherford is an American author, critic, and poet. She has published over 50 children's books, primarily non-fiction and poetry. The music of poetry has fascinated Weatherford and motivated her literary career. She has won multiple awards for her books, including the 2022 Coretta Scott King Award for Author for her book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Children's Literature Legacy Award in 2025. As a critic, she is best known for her controversial criticism of Pokémon character Jynx and Dragon Ball character Mr. Popo.

Carole Marsh

American writer

Carole Wilkinson

Australian writer, of children's fiction mainly

Caroline B. Cooney

American writer

Caroline Stevermer

American writer

Carolyn Coman

American children's writer

Carolyn Crimi

author of children's picture books

Carolyn Haywood

American writer, illustrator, muralist, and children's portrait artist (1898-1990)

Carolyn Hennesy

Carolyn Hennesy is an American actress, writer, and animal advocate. Hennesy's early work consisted of guest appearances and roles in shows and television movies, including Dark Justice and in Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare. She rose to prominence when she was cast in a recurring role in Dawson's Creek. She followed this with a series of guest appearances until she gained international acclaim after landing the role of Diane Miller on the daytime television series General Hospital, for which she earned two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Following this, she was cast in more recurring roles in shows such as Cougar Town, Revenge, and Jessie. She also received much credibility for her role in The Bay, for which she won her first Daytime Emmy Award.

Carolyn Keene

Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. In addition, the Keene pen name is credited with the Nancy Drew spin-off, River Heights, and the Nancy Drew Notebooks.

Carolyn Marsden

American writer

Carolyn Meyer

Carolyn Meyer is an American author of novels for children and young adults.

Carolyn Reeder

Carolyn Reeder was an American writer best known for children's historical novels. She also wrote three non-fiction books about Shenandoah National Park for adults together with her husband. She won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. During the last year of her life she wrote a column for children in The Washington Post (KidsPost) about Civil War history.

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

American children's writer

Carrie Weston

born:1966|; Weston, Carrie, 1966-; וסטון, קרי

Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes. Most are set in the Deep South.

Cath Senker

Shiva, also known as Mahadeva and Hara, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism.

Catherine Bateson

Australian novelist and poet

Catherine Marshall

American writer

Cathy Goldberg Fishman

American author

Cathy Hapka

American writer known for children's picture book adaptations

Cece Bell

American illustrator and children's writer

Cecil Frances Alexander

British hymn-writer and poet

Cecily von Ziegesar

Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar is an American author best known for the young adult novel series Gossip Girl.

Charise Mericle Harper

American writer

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

American journalist

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Bluebeard".

Charles Robinson

French writer

Charlie Fletcher

writer

Charlotte Agell

Swedish-born American author for young adults and children

Charlotte Brontë

British novelist and poet (1816-1855)

Charlotte Riley-Webb

artist (born 1948)

Charlotte Zolotow

Charlotte Zolotow was an American writer, poet, editor, and publisher of many books for children. She wrote about 70 picture book texts.

Cherie Bennett

American writer and entertainer

Cherie Winner

Cherie DeVille is an American pornographic film actress and writer. A doctor of physical therapy, she entered the adult-film industry in her early thirties and has since appeared in hundreds of scenes, marketing herself online as "the internet's step-mom." DeVille briefly sought the United States presidency in 2020 on a ticket with rapper Coolio, using the slogan "Make America Fucking Awesome Again". She ended her bid in 2019, endorsing senator Bernie Sanders' campaign.

Chih-Yuan Chen

Taiwanese writer and illustrator

Ching Yeung Russell

writer

Chiori Santiago

William Howard Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award. His 2013 novel Middle C won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal.

Chris Crowe

American author and English professor

Chris Crutcher

Chris Crutcher is an American novelist and a family therapist. He received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2000 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.

Chris Lynch

Chris Lynch is an American writer of books for young people. His works include Inexcusable, a finalist for the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and Iceman,"The Right Fight", Shadow Boxer, Gold Dust, and Slot Machine, all ALA Best Books for Young Adults; Freewill was also a runner-up for the Michael L. Printz Award. Some of his works are intended for a high school level audience; some for children and younger teenagers.

Chris McNab

British writer

Chris Oxlade

author, editor and illustrator of children's information books

Chris Riddell

Chris Riddell is a South African-born English illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals – the British librarians' annual award for the best-illustrated children's book, and two of his works were commended runners-up, a distinction dropped after 2002.

Chris Wooding

Chris Wooding is a British writer born in Leicester, and now living in London. His first book, Crashing, which he wrote at the age of nineteen, was published in 1998 when he was twenty-one. Since then he has written many more, including The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, which was silver runner-up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, and Poison, which won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year. He is also the author of three different, completed series; Broken Sky, an anime-influenced fantasy serial for children, Braided Path, a fantasy trilogy for adults, and Malice, a young adult fantasy that mixes graphic novel with the traditional novel; as well as another, four-part series, Tales of the Ketty Jay, a steampunk sci-fi fantasy for adults.

Christian Birmingham

Christian Birmingham is a British illustrator and artist who has worked with children's writers including the Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo, on books including Whitbread Children's Book of the Year The Wreck of the Zanzibar and Smarties Prize winner The Butterfly Lion. He was also shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award and Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration.

Christiane Duchesne

Christiane Duchesne is a Quebec researcher, educator, illustrator, translator and writer.

Christine Petersen

Johanne Christine Petersen often simply known as Johanne Petersen was a Danish school principal. She is remembered for her pioneering work with handicapped children. From 1874, she was associated with Hjemmet for Vanfore, later known as Samfundet og Hjemmet for Vanføre, serving as head from 1886 to 1922. Initially opened for one-armed girls, the institution was extended to accommodate boys from 1878. Over the years the institution was significantly expanded. Petersen was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in 1897.

Christopher Collier

American writer and historian (1930-2020)

Christopher Golden

American writer

Christopher Gravett

British military historian

Christopher Myers

American artist and illustrator

Christopher Paolini

American writer

Christopher Paul Curtis

American children's writer

Christopher Pike

American author

Christopher Russell

British writer

Christopher Wormell

English illustrator

Chuck Hanners

Coos Bay is a city located in Coos County, Oregon, United States, where the Coos River enters Coos Bay on the Pacific Ocean. It shares Coos Bay with the adjacent city of North Bend. Together, they are often referred to as one entity called either Coos Bay-North Bend or Oregon's Bay Area. Coos Bay's population as of the 2020 census was 15,985 residents, making it the most populous city on the Oregon Coast. Oregon's Bay Area is estimated to be home to 32,308.

Claire Bishop

Claire Bishop is a British art historian, critic, and Presidential Professor of Art History at CUNY Graduate Center, New York where she has taught since September 2008. Bishop is known as one of the central theorists of participation in visual art and performance. Her 2004 essay titled “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics,” which was published in October, remains an influential critique of relational aesthetics. Bishop's books have been translated into twenty languages and she is a frequent contributor to the magazine Artforum and the journal October.

Claire Freedman

writer

Claire Huchet Bishop

Claire Huchet Bishop was a Swiss children's writer and librarian. She wrote two Newbery Medal runners-up, Pancakes-Paris (1947) and All Alone (1953), and she won the Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten (1952). Her first English-language children's book became a classic: The Five Chinese Brothers, illustrated by Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959.

Clare B. Dunkle

American writer

Claudia Mills

Claudia Jane Mills is an American author of children's books. She is also an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Clive Barker

Clive Barker is a British writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. He came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of short stories collectively named the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror author. His work has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser series and the Candyman series.

Clive Cussler

American novelist (1931–2020)

Clyde Robert Bulla

American children's writer

Colby Rodowsky

American writer

Colin McNaughton

British children's illustrator and writer

Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna

American children's book author

Conrad Richter

American novelist (1890–1968)

Corinne Demas

American writer

Cornelia Funke

German author (born 1958)

Cornelia Meigs

American children's writer

Craig Sharmat

American composer and guitarist

Cressida Cowell

British writer

Cris Peterson

American dairy farmer and author

Crockett Johnson

American cartoonist and children's book illustrator (pseudonym) (1906-1975)

Crosby Bonsall

Crosby Newell Bonsall was an American artist and children's book author and illustrator. She wrote and illustrated more than 40 children's books.

Crosby Newell Bonsall

Crosby Newell Bonsall was an American artist and children's book author and illustrator. She wrote and illustrated more than 40 children's books.

Cynthia Kadohata

Japanese-American children's writer

Cynthia Leitich Smith

American writer and poet

Cynthia Lord

American children's writer

Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant is an American author and librarian. She has written more than 100 children's books including works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Several of her books have won awards including her novel Missing May, which won the 1993 Newbery Medal, and A Fine White Dust, which was a 1987 Newbery Honor book. Two of her books are Caldecott Honor Books.

Cynthia Voigt

Cynthia Irving Voigt is an American writer of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse. Her first book in the Tillerman family series, Homecoming, was nominated for several international prizes and adapted as a 1996 film. Her novel Dicey's Song won the 1983 Newbery Medal.

Dan Brown

Daniel Gerhard Brown is an American writer best known for his thriller novels, particularly the Robert Langdon series Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), Origin (2017) and The Secret of Secrets (2025). His novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a 24-hour period and center on recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy theories.

Dan Greenburg

American writer

Dan Gutman

Dan Gutman is an American writer, primarily of children's fiction.

Dan Harmon

American screenwriter

Dan J. Marlowe

American novelist

Dan Yaccarino

American writer

Dana Meachen Rau

American children's book writer and editor

Dandi Daley Mackall

American writer

Dane Brimner

Larry Dane Brimner is an American teacher, presenter, and writer of more than 150 children's books. They have ranged from fantasy-style stories for young children to non-fiction books for older children. Many of his books have civil rights themes; his book We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin won the 2008 Jane Addams Children's Book Award in the "older children" category. This was followed by Birmingham Sunday, which received the Orbis Pictus Honor Book Award in 2011 from the National Council for Teachers of English and the Eureka! Gold Award from the California Reading Association. His 2011 title, Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor, was given the Carter G. Woodson Book Award and named a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book. More recently, Brimner has started writing about the migrant children he once taught with the publication of STRIKE! The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights, which received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews.

Daniel Cohen

American non-fiction writer (1936-2018)

Daniel Defoe

English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)

Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes was an American writer best known as the author of the novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.

Daniel Manus Pinkwater

Daniel Manus Pinkwater is an American author of children's books and young adult fiction. His books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, Borgel, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot. Pinkwater has also written an adult novel, The Afterlife Diet (1995), and essay collections derived from his talks on National Public Radio.

Darcy Pattison

Children's author

Darren Shan

Darren O'Shaughnessy is an Irish writer and novelist. He is best known for his young adult fiction series The Saga of Darren Shan, The Demonata, and Zom-B, published under the pseudonym Darren Shan. The former was adapted into a manga series from 2006 to 2009 as well as a live-action film in 2009, with a prequel series, The Saga of Larten Crepsley, being released from 2010 to 2012.

Dav Pilkey

American cartonist and author

Dave Barry

David McAlister Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005).

Dave Sargent

Richard Stanford Cox, known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor. He is best known for being the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on ABC's fantasy sitcom Bewitched. He took the name Dick Sargent from a Saturday Evening Post illustrator/artist of the same name.

David A. Adler

American children's writer

David Adler

Israeli poet

David Baker

American jazz composer, trombonist, professor of music and author (1931-2016)

David Bedford

biologist

David Christiana

American writer and illustrator (born 1960)

David Clement-Davies

British writer

David Clemson

The Clemson Tigers football program are the American football team at Clemson University. The Tigers compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). In recent years, the Tigers have been ranked among the most elite college football programs in the United States.

David Cunningham

British actor, writer, and producer.

David Elliott

American writer

David Ezra Stein

American author and illustrator

David Kherdian

Armenian-American poet, author and anthologist (born 1931)

David Kirk

US author from Ohio (1955-)

David L. Harrison

author of children's books

David L. Rice

writer, elementary and special education teacher

David Levithan

David Levithan is an American young adult fiction author and editor. He has written numerous works featuring strong male gay characters, most notably Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List. Six of Levithan's books have won or been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, making him the most celebrated author in the category.

David Lewman

Fresh Beat Band of Spies is an animated children's television series originally airing on Nickelodeon and the Nick Jr. Channel. Produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and 6 Point Harness in California, and Nelvana Limited in Canada, it is a spin-off of Nickelodeon's live-action series The Fresh Beat Band. The series was created by Nadine van der Velde and Scott Kraft and developed by Michael Ryan. Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Thomas Hobson, Tara Perry, and Jon Beavers reprise their roles as Kiki, Shout, Marina, and Twist, respectively, while Tom Kenny replaces Patrick Levis as Reed, and Keith Silverstein also joins the cast.

David Lubar

Children's writer and game programmer

David Macaulay

British-born American illustrator and writer

David McKee

British children's book author and illustrator (1935–2022)

David McPhail

American author and illustrator

David Orme

British writer

David Parkins

British cartoonist, comics artist, and book illustrator

David Patneaude

American creator

David Pittu

American actor (born 1967)

David Savage

woodworker and writer (1949–2019)

David Shannon

American children's illustrator and writer

David Small

American children's illustrator and writer

David Wiesner

American children's illustrator and writer

David Wisniewski

David R. Wisniewski, was an American writer and illustrator best known for children's books.

Dean Hughes

American writer

Deb Caletti

American writer

Debbie Dadey

American children's writer

Debbie S. Miller

Richard K. Nelson, also known as "Nels", was an American cultural anthropologist and writer. He grew up living in Wisconsin, receiving his education from the University of Wisconsin–Madison before earning his Ph.D. degree from the University of California. Nelson spent many years living in Interior Alaska with indigenous people, reflected through his work. His work has focused primarily on the indigenous cultures of Alaska and, more generally, the relationships between people and nature. He was the host to a public radio series called Encounters aired nationally. He has been awarded a variety of awards for his commitment to the community as an activist, serving on the Sitka Conservation Society, and for his creativity as both an author and artist. Nelson died in a San Francisco Hospital at the age of 77 from a long-term battle with cancer.

Debi Gliori

Scottish children's writer and illustrator

Deborah A. Marinelli

Thriller 40 is a 2023 documentary film about the 40th anniversary of Michael Jackson's 1982 album Thriller. The film, directed by Nelson George, was released in the United States on December 2, 2023. It aired on Showtime and was streamed on Paramount+ only for Showtime subscribers. Internationally, it debuted the same day in the U.K., Australia, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Latin America, and South Korea. On October 27, 2023, the trailer for the documentary was released. A 40th-anniversary edition reissue of Thriller (1982) of the same title was released in 2022.

Deborah Able

Deborah Ann Harry is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Four of her songs with the band reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 between 1979 and 1981.

Deborah Chancellor

British writer

Deborah Ellis

Canadian author

Deborah Hautzig

American writer

Deborah Heiligman

Deborah Heiligman is an American author of books for children and teens. Her work ranges from picture books to young adult novels and includes both fiction and nonfiction.

Deborah Hopkinson

American writer of historical fiction for children

Deborah Howe

Deborah Smith Howe was an American children's writer and actress. She and her husband James Howe wrote two books, Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery and Teddy Bear's Scrapbook, but she died of cancer at age 31 before they were published in 1979 and 1980, respectively.

Deborah Moulton

US author (1952- ) of young adult novels

Deborah Wiles

American children's writer (born 1953)

Dee Alexander Brown

Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown was an American novelist, historian, and librarian. His most famous work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), details the history of the United States' westward colonization of the continent between 1860 and 1890 from the point of view of Native Americans.

Deloris Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials MJ, is an American businessman and retired professional basketball player who is a minority owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 15 seasons in the NBA between 1984 and 2003, winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. Widely considered to be one of the greatest basketball players of all time, he was integral in popularizing basketball and the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. He is the wealthiest athlete of all time, and one of the world's richest celebrities, with a $4.3 billion net worth as of 2026.

Denis J. Harrington

Ponsegromab (PF-06946860) is a monoclonal antibody that works as a GDF-15 inhibitor. It is developed by Pfizer for cancer cachexia.

Denis Roche

French writer and translator

Denise Fleming

American children's illustrator and writer

Denise Lewis Patrick

The American Girl series, by various authors, is a collection of novels set within toy line's fictional universe. Since its inception, American Girl has published books based on the dolls, with novels and other media to tie in with their dolls. The books follow various American girls throughout both historical eras and contemporary settings.

Dennis Covington

writer

Dennis Eichhorn

Dennis P. Eichhorn was an American writer, best known for his adult-oriented autobiographical comic book series Real Stuff. His stories, often involving sex, drugs, and alcohol, have been compared to those of Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and Charles Bukowski.

Dennis Haseley

US psychotherapist and author (1950- ), who specialized for many years in picture books

Dennis P. Eichhorn

Dennis P. Eichhorn was an American writer, best known for his adult-oriented autobiographical comic book series Real Stuff. His stories, often involving sex, drugs, and alcohol, have been compared to those of Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and Charles Bukowski.

Denys Cazet

American children's illustrator and writer

Derek Landy

Irish author and screenwriter

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Indian-American writer

Dian Curtis Regan

American writer

Diana Cain Bluthenthal

Charlotte's Web is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams. It was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. It tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered, Charlotte writes messages in her web praising him, such as "Some Pig", "Terrific", "Radiant", and "Humble", to persuade the farmer to spare his life.

Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and young adults. Although usually described as fantasy, some of her work also incorporates science fiction themes and elements of realism. Jones's work often explores themes of time travel and parallel or multiple universes. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series, the three Moving Castle novels, Dark Lord of Derkholm, and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.

Diane Duane

American author

Diane Hoh

American writer

Diane Stanley

Diane Stanley is an American children's author and illustrator.

Diane Swanson

Canadian children's writer

Dianna Hutts Aston

American writer

Dick King-Smith

English writer of children's books (1922–2011)

Dirk Zimmer

German-born artist, illustrator of American children's books (1943-2008)

Don Brown

American author of children's books

Don Lessem

American dinosaur expert and author

Don Nardo

American historian, composer, and writer (born 1947)

Donald Crews

Donald Crews is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. In 2015, the American Library Association (ALA) honored him with the Children's Literature Legacy Award, recognizing his lasting contribution to children's literature.

Donald Davis

American writer and novelist

Donald F. Glut

writer, director, musician, actor

Donald Hall

American writer (1928–2018)

Donald J. Sobol

American writer (1924–2012)

Donna Hill

American writer

Donna Jo Napoli

American children's writer and linguist

Doreen Cronin

Doreen Cronin is an American writer of children's books, including Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type, a picture book illustrated by Betsy Lewin.

Doreen Rappaport

author

Dori Hillestad Butler

American author of children's books

Dori Sanders

American writer

Doris Buchanan Smith

American author of award-winning children's books, including A Taste of Blackberries, 1973 (1934-2002)

Doris Orgel

Austrian American translator and writer (1929–2021)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Dorothy Canfield Fisher was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. Her writing helped increase understanding of the Montessori method of child-rearing in the U.S.; she presided over the country's first adult education program; and her service as a member of the Book of the Month Club selection committee from 1925 to 1951 helped shape literary tastes in the U.S.

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

American children's writer

Doug Cushman

Doug Cushman is an artist who has worked as a cartoonist and a book illustrator. He is also the author of a series of children's books.

Doug Marx

American author and poet

Dougal Dixon

British author

Douglas Evans

American writer

Douglas Florian

Douglas Florian is an American visual artist and author.

Douglas Wood

American children's author

Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American children's author, illustrator, animator, and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.

Dugald Steer

British writer

Dunbar, Robert E.

Dunbar is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately 30 miles east of Edinburgh and 30 mi (50 km) from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Dyan Sheldon

American novelist

E. L. Konigsburg

American writer and illustrator (1930–2013)

Ed Emberley

American children's illustrator and writer

Ed Young

Chinese-born American children's illustrator

Edith Kunhardt

American children's writer

Edith Pattou

American children's writer

Edith Thacher Hurd

American children's writer known for picture book texts, many illustrated by her husband

Edith Unnerstad

writer

Edith Wharton

American writer and designer (1862–1937)

Edward Bloor

young adult novelist

Edward Eager

American children's and theatrical writer (1911-1964)

Edward Lear

British artist, illustrator, author and poet (1812-1888)

Edward Marshall

journalist and war correspondent (1870-1933)

Edward Miller

American writer

Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. Her work has dealt with themes of national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics. In 2023, she was named the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.

Eileen Browne

British writer

Eileen Christelow

American writer and illustrator of children's books

Eileen Spinelli

American author of children's books and poetry

Eleanor Cameron

Canadian American children's writer (1912-1996)

Eleanor Coerr

Canadian-American children's writer

Eleanor Estes

American children's writer

Eleanor H. Porter

American novelist (1868–1920)

Eleanora E. Tate

American author and educator

Elie Wiesel

Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)

Elisa Kleven

American writer

Elisabetta Dami

Italian children's fiction writer

Elise Broach

American writer

Elise Primavera

American illustrator and children's writer

Elisha Cooper

Elisha Cooper is an American writer and children's book author. Cooper went to Foote School and Hopkins School in Connecticut. After graduating from Yale, he worked for The New Yorker as a messenger. In 2016 he was a Maurice Sendak Fellow, a residency program for illustrators.

Elissa Haden Guest

American author (born 1953)

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

American children's book writer

Elizabeth Enright

American children's writer and illustrator, short story writer, critic

Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

American librarian and children's book author

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis was an American children's writer. She received the Newbery Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.

Elizabeth George Speare

American writer

Elizabeth Honey

Australian writer (born 1947)

Elizabeth Laird

British children's writer

Elizabeth Levy

Elizabeth Levy is an American author who has written over eighty children's books in a variety of genres. Born in Buffalo, New York, she is currently living in New York City. She has appeared as a contestant on Billy on the Street on TruTV. Her cousin is children's author Robie Harris.

Elizabeth Partridge

American writer

Elizabeth Starr Hill

American children's author (1925-2017)

Elizabeth Winthrop

American writer

Elizabeth Yates

American writer (1905–2001)

Ellen Conford

American children's writer (1942–2015)

Ellen Emerson White

American writer

Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Louise Hopkins is a novelist who has published several New York Times bestselling novels that are popular among the teenage and young adult audience.

Ellen Miles

American writer

Ellen Potter

American writer

Ellen Raskin

American writer and illustrator

Ellen Schreiber

Ellen Schreiber is an American young adult fiction author.

Ellen Stoll Walsh

author

Ellen Wittlinger

American novelist, young adult fiction writer

Eloise Greenfield

Eloise Greenfield was an American children's book and biography author and poet famous for her descriptive, rhythmic style and positive portrayal of the African-American experience.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

American writer (1915–2000)

Else Holmelund Minarik

Else Holmelund Minarik was a Danish-born American author of more than 40 children's books. She was most commonly associated with her Little Bear series of children's books, which were adapted for television. Minarik was also the author of another well-known book, No Fighting, No Biting!

Elspeth Graham

children's fiction author and widow of Mal Peet

Elvira Woodruff

American children's writer

Emily Arnold McCully

American children's illustrator and writer

Emily Bolam

British creator

Emily Cheney Neville

American children's writer (1919–1997)

Emily Gravett

Emily Gravett is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. For her debut book Wolves published in 2005 and Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears published three years later, she won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal recognising the year's best-illustrated British children's book.

Emily Rodda

Jennifer June Rowe,, is an Australian author. Her crime fiction for adults is published under her own name, while her children's fiction is published under the pseudonyms Emily Rodda and Mary-Anne Dickinson.

Emma Dodd

British artist

Eoin Colfer

Irish author of children's books (born 1965)

Eric Carle

American author and illustrator for children (1929–2021)

Eric Drachman

White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II is a 1993 American adventure film directed and written by Catherine Cyran and starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Amy O'Neill, Ami Dolenz, David Moscow, Matt McCoy, Marc Riffon, and Eric Drachman. This film was shot in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest. It is the sequel to the 1990 film A Cry in the Wild.

Eric Knight

British writer (1897–1943)

Eric Mann

Eric Mann is a civil rights, anti-war, labor, and environmental organizer. He has worked with the Congress of Racial Equality, Newark Community Union Project, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Black Panther Party, the United Automobile Workers and the New Directions Movement. He was also active as a leader of SDS faction the Weathermen, which later became the militant left-wing organization Weather Underground. He was arrested in September 1969 for participation in a direct action against the Harvard Center for International Affairs and sentenced to two years in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit murder after two bullets were fired through a window of the Cambridge police headquarters on November 8, 1969. He was instrumental in the movement that helped to keep a General Motors assembly plant in Van Nuys, California open for ten years. Mann has been credited for helping to shape the environmental justice movement in the U.S. He founded the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles, California and has been its director for 25 years. In addition, Mann is founder and co-chair of the Bus Riders Union, which sued the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for what it called “transit racism”, resulting in a precedent-setting civil rights lawsuit, Labor Community Strategy Center et al. v. MTA.

Eric Metaxas

American conservative talk show host

Eric Rohmann

American children's illustrator and writer

Eric Walters

teacher and author from Canada

Eric Wight

Eric Wight is an American professional writer, illustrator and animator. He was the Director of Epic! Originals at children's digital reading platform Epic.

Eric Wilson

Canadian author of young adult fiction (born 1940)

Erica Silverman

Big Pumpkin is a children's book written by Erica Silverman, illustrated by S. D. Schindler, and published by Aladdin Paperbacks in 1992. The story is loosely based on a Russian folktale, "The Gigantic Turnip", and takes place on Halloween as a witch struggles to release her pumpkin from a vine.

Erika Tamar

Austrian creator

Erin Hunter

Erin Hunter is a collective pseudonym used by authors affiliated with HarperCollins publishing company and Working Partners, a London-based firm. The affiliated writers include Victoria Holmes, Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Clarissa Hutton, Inbali Iserles, Tui T. Sutherland, Rosie Best, and Conrad Mason in the writing of several children's fantasy novel series which focus on animals and their adventures. Notable works include the Warriors, Seekers, Survivors, Bravelands, Bamboo Kingdom, and Renegades book series. For each book, Holmes creates the plot and the others take turns writing the books. Dan Jolley, though not an official Erin Hunter author, also writes the stories for manga published under the Hunter name. James L. Barry, Bettina M. Kurkoski, and Don Hudson are included under the pseudonym as the illustrators of the Warriors mangas. Natalie Riess, Sara Goetter, and Sammy Savos are also included as the illustrators of the graphic novel adaptation of The Prophecies Begin and The New Prophecy, as well as Gibson Twist, who wrote for some of the graphic novel adaptations.

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Author, memoirist (1908–2006)

Esphyr Slobodkina

Russian American artist, children's illustrator and writer (1908-2002)

Esther Forbes

novelist (1891-1967)

Esther Wood Brady

The Moors murders were a series of child killings committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in and around Manchester, England, between July 1963 and October 1965. The five victims – Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans – were aged between 10 and 17, and at least four were sexually assaulted. The bodies of two of the victims were discovered in 1965, in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley's trial. Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered.

Eth Clifford

American writer (1915-2003)

Eva Ibbotson

British children's writer (1925–2010)

Eve Bunting

Eve Bjørgum Bunting, better known as Eve Bunting, was a Northern Irish-born American writer of more than 250 books. Her work covered a broad array of subjects and included fiction and non-fiction books. Her novels are primarily aimed at children and young adults, but she has also written the text for picture books. While many of her books are set in Northern Ireland where she grew up, her topics and settings range from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles. Bunting's first book, The Two Giants, was published in 1971. Due to the popularity of her books with children, she has been listed as one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors.

Evelyn Coleman

The American Girl series, by various authors, is a collection of novels set within toy line's fictional universe. Since its inception, American Girl has published books based on the dolls, with novels and other media to tie in with their dolls. The books follow various American girls throughout both historical eras and contemporary settings.

Ezra Jack Keats

Ezra Jack Keats was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for The Snowy Day, which won the 1963 Caldecott Medal and is considered one of the most important American books of the 20th century. He wrote 22 books and illustrated at least 70 more in his signature collage art style. Keats is known for introducing multiculturalism into mainstream American children's literature. Keats' works have been translated into some 20 languages, including Japanese, French, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, German, Swedish, Thai, Chinese, and Korean.

Ezra Tucker

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American conservative political commentator who hosts Tucker on X and The Tucker Carlson Show since 2023. He previously hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023, when his contract with Fox News was terminated. A longtime advocate of U.S. president Donald Trump, Carlson has been described as a high-profile proponent of Trumpism, and an influential voice in right-wing media. In 2026, Carlson publicly withdrew his support for Trump and apologized for "misleading" people into supporting him.

Faith McNulty

American nonfiction writer

Faith Ringgold

African American painter and sculptor (1930–2024)

Farley Mowat

Canadian writer and environmentalist (1921–2014)

Fatima Shaik

American writer

Faye Gibbons

American writer

Feenie Ziner

born:1921-03-22|died:2012-12-13|; Ziner, Feenie, 1921-; Ziner, Feenie, 1921-2012

Felice Holman

American children's book author, poet, and young adult novelist

Felix Salten

Austro-Hungarian author and critic in Vienna (1869–1945)

Feodor Rojankovsky

Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, also known as Rojan, was a Russian émigré illustrator. He is well known both for children's book illustration and for erotic art. He won the 1956 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration from the American Library Association, recognizing Frog Went A-Courtin' by John Langstaff.

Florence McNeil

Canadian poet, writer, playwright, and professor

Florence Parry Heide

American writer

Floyd Cooper

American book illustrator

Fran Balkwill

Frances Rosemary Balkwill is an English scientist, Professor of Cancer Biology at Queen Mary University of London, and author of children's books about scientific topics.

Fran Leeper Buss

American historian

Frances Hill

British writer

Frances Hodgson Burnett

English-American playwright and author (1849–1924)

Frances O'Roark Dowell

American writer

Frances Temple

American writer and illustrator

Frances Thomas

Welsh writer

Francesca Simon

British author

Francesco D'Adamo

Italian writer

Francess Lantz

American writer (1952-2004)

Francine Pascal

Francine Paula Pascal was an American author best known for her Sweet Valley series of young adult novels. Sweet Valley High, the backbone of the collection, was made into a television series, which led to several spin-offs, including The Unicorn Club and Sweet Valley University. Although most of these books were published in the 1980s and 1990s, they remained so popular that several titles were re-released decades later.

Frank Asch

American children's writer

Frank Beddor

American skier and writer

Frank Bonham

American Author (1914-1988)

Frank Cammuso

American cartoonist

Frank Murphy

William Francis Murphy was an American politician, lawyer, and jurist from Michigan. He was a Democrat who was named to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1940 after a political career that included serving as United States Attorney General, 35th governor of Michigan, and Mayor of Detroit. He also served as the last Governor-General of the Philippines and the first High Commissioner to the Philippines.

Frank Portman

American musician, singer, guitarist, songwriter, author

Franklin W. Dixon

Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors who were part of a team that wrote the Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Dixon was also the writer attributed for the Ted Scott Flying Stories series, published by Grosset & Dunlap.

Franny Billingsley

American children's writer

Franz Brandenberg

b. Feb. 10, 1932, in Zug, Switzerland; married to Aliki

Fred Bowen

Fred William Bowen was an Australian politician.

Fred Gipson

Frederick Benjamin Gipson was an American writer and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film. Gipson was born on a farm near Mason in the Texas Hill Country, the son of Beck Gipson and Emma Deishler. After working at a variety of farming and ranching jobs, he enrolled in 1933 at the University of Texas at Austin. There he wrote for the Daily Texan and The Ranger, but he left school before graduating to become a newspaper journalist.

Fred Marcellino

American illustrator and writer (1939-2001)

Fredrick McKissack

Fredrick Lemuel "Fred" McKissack, Sr. was an American writer, best known for collaborating with his wife, Patricia C. McKissack, on more than 100 children's books about the history of African-Americans.

Frieda Wishinsky

german-born Canadian educator and author

G. Clifton Wisler

American writer

G. P. Taylor

British writer

Gabrielle Zevin

American writer

Gail Blasser Riley

Carroll Franklin Cooley was an American police detective. He was known for arresting laborer Ernesto Miranda. The arrest led to failing to warn a person of their constitutional rights before interrogating them, becoming a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case named Miranda v. Arizona.

Gail Carson Levine

Gail Carson Levine is an American author of young adult books. Her first novel, Ella Enchanted, received a Newbery Honor in 1998.

Gail Gauthier

American children's writer (b. 1953)

Gail Gibbons

Gail Gibbons is an American writer and illustrator of children's books, most of which are non-fiction. She started her career as a graphic artist for television, but transitioned to writing and designing children's books in the 1970s.

Gail Herman

American author of children books (1959-)

Gail Lemley Burnett

The following is a list of members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2006 to 2019.

Garth Nix

Australian fantasy writer

Gary Barwin

Canadian writer

Gary Blackwood

American author

Gary Brandner

American writer

Gary D. Schmidt

American writer

Gary Paulsen

American writer (1939–2021)

Gary Soto

American poet and writer (born 1952)

Gaston Leroux

French author and journalist (1868–1927)

Gayle Friesen

Canadian writer

Gene DeWeese

American writer (1934-2012)

Gene Zion

American writer

Gennifer Choldenko

American children's writer

George Edward Stanley

American writer of children's fiction and academic (Middle Eastern and African languages)

George Ella Lyon

American writer

George Harrar

American writer of crime fiction and children's books

George Makepeace Towle

American translator, politician (1841-1893)

George Orwell

British writer and journalist (1903–1950)

George Selden

American children's writer (1929-1989)

George Shea

(1826-1895) US judge and lawyer

George Stanley

Canadian poet

George Sullivan

oral history project participant

George Warren

US author (1934-)

Georgia Byng

Lady Georgia Mary Caroline Byng is a British children's writer, educator, illustrator, actress and film producer. Since 1995, she has published thirteen children's books, and co-written and co-produced one film. Byng has won the Stockton Children's Book Award, the Sheffield Children's Book Award, the Massachusetts Children's Book Award, the Salford Children's Book Award and the Best Kid's Film at the Peace And Love Festival, Sweden. Most of Byng's books are magical realism adventures, with protagonists who overcome self-doubt and become self-empowered. The themes are often bullying and its darkness, kindness and its light, friendship and its warmth, and the power of the mind.

Gerald Hausman

Gerald Andrews Hausman is a storyteller and award-winning author of books about Native America, animals, mythology, and West Indian culture. Hausman has published over seventy books for both children and adults.

Gerald McDermott

American film director, children's writer and illustrator (1941-2012)

Gerald Morris

American writer

Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist. She has written more than 170 books, including Peter Pan in Scarlet (2004), the official sequel to Peter Pan commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, es worldwide. She has received the Carnegie Medal twice and the Michael L. Printz Award among others.

Geronimo Stilton

Geronimo Stilton is an Italian children's book series created by Elisabetta Dami. The books are written as the fictional memoirs of the title character, a mild mannered mouse who keeps getting into faraway adventures in both fictional and real locations. The books are illustrated and important words are shown in various colors and illustrative typefaces.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

American children's writer (1890–1979)

Giles Andreae

British artist, poet

Gillia M. Olson

American children's book author

Gillian McHale

The National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students is a literary competition held by Landmark House of Kansas City, Kansas. It was launched by David Melton, one of the publisher's staff members.

Gina Mayer

German writer

Ginger Wadsworth

American writer of non-fiction for children

Ginny Rorby

American writer

Glen Rounds

Glen Harold Rounds was an American writer and illustrator. In a career that exceeded six decades, he wrote and illustrated well over 100 books. He was the recipient of more than 25 literary awards.

Glendon Swarthout

1918-1992 American writer

Glenn Dickey

Basketball began with its invention in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith as a less injury-prone sport than football. Naismith was a 31-year-old graduate student when he created the indoor sport to keep athletes indoors during the winters. The game became established fairly quickly and grew very popular as the 20th century progressed, first in America and then in other parts of the world. After basketball became established in American colleges, the professional game followed. The American National Basketball Association (NBA), established in 1946, grew to a multibillion-dollar enterprise by the end of the century, and basketball became an integral part of American culture.

Gloria Estefan

Gloria María Milagrosa Estefan is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. Estefan is a five-time Grammy Award winner and a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and has been named one of the Top 100 greatest artists of all time by both VH1 and Billboard. Estefan's record sales exceed 120 million worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

Gloria Houston

American author (1941-2016)

Gloria Skurzynski

American children's writer

Gloria Whelan

Gloria Whelan is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist known primarily for children's and young adult fiction. She won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2000 for the novel Homeless Bird. She also won the 2013 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction for her short story What World Is This? and the work became the title for the independent publisher's 2013 collection of short stories.

Gordon Korman

Canadian American children's writer

Grace Lin

author and illustrator

Grace Maccarone

Children's author

Graham Salisbury

American children's writer and pop musician

Greg Mortenson

American mountaineer and humanitarian

Greg Trine

writer

Gregory Maguire

novelist

Gris Grimly

writer, artist

H. A. Rey

Children's illustrator and writer (1898–1977)

H. G. Wells

English writer (1866–1946)

Hal Borland

Harold Glen Borland was an American writer, journalist and naturalist. In addition to writing many non-fiction and fiction books about the outdoors, he was a staff writer and editorialist for The New York Times.

Hall

In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and the Early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept. Later in the Middle Ages, the great hall was the largest room in castles and large houses, and where the servants usually slept. As more complex house plans developed, the hall remained a large room for dancing and large feasts, often still with servants sleeping there. It was usually immediately inside the main door. In modern British houses, an entrance hall next to the front door remains an indispensable feature, even if it is essentially merely a corridor.

Han Nolan

American children's writer

Hannah Shaw

animal advocate and an Internet celebrity

Hannu Taina

Finnish designer, graphic designer and illustrator

Hans Christian Andersen

Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)

Hans Peter Richter

German author (1925–1993)

Hans Wilhelm

American writer

Harper Lee

American novelist (1926–2016)

HarperCollins Children's Books

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American multinational publishing conglomerate that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster. HarperCollins is headquartered in London and New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)

Harriet McBryde Johnson

American lawyer (1957-2008)

Harriet Ziefert

American children's writer

Harry Allard

American writer

Harry Devlin

Harry Devlin was an artist and a painter who also worked as a cartoonist for magazines such as Collier's. His work won him the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 1956, 1962, and 1963, their Illustration Award for 1977 and 1978, and their Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1990.

Harry Mazer

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1925-2016)

Harvey Fireside

Homer Adolph Plessy was an American shoemaker and activist who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson. He staged an act of civil disobedience to challenge one of Louisiana's racial segregation laws and bring a test case to force the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of segregation laws. The Court decided against Plessy. The resulting "separate but equal" legal doctrine determined that state-mandated segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as long as the facilities provided for both black and white people were putatively "equal". The legal precedent set by Plessy v. Ferguson lasted into the mid-20th century, until a series of landmark Supreme Court decisions concerning segregation, beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

Haven Kimmel

Memoirist, novelist, children's writer

Heather Alexander

American author (born 1967)

Helen Cooper

Dutch author and actress

Helen Cresswell

English children's writer and TV scriptwriter (1934–2005)

Helen Fox

English writer (1962-)

Helen Frost

American children's writer

Helen Lester

American children's writer

Helen Oxenbury

Helen Gillian Oxenbury is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in north London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up four times. For the 50th anniversary of that Medal (1955–2005) her 1999 illustrated edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was named one of the top ten winning works.

Hélène Rioux

Canadian writer and translator

Henrietta Bancroft

American teacher, Walden School, New York; president, Analytical Psychology Club of New York; children's author

Henrietta Branford

English children's writer (1946–1999)

Henry Cole

American author and illustrator of children's books

Henry James

American and British writer (1843–1916)

Henry Winkler

Henry Franklin Winkler is an American actor, producer, director, and author. Widely known as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984), Winkler has distinguished himself as a character actor for roles on stage and screen. His many accolades include three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and two Critics Choice Awards.

Herma Silverstein

Caroline Arnold is an American author of 170 books for children as well as an artist and the illustrator of many of her books. Her books primarily cover nonfiction topics such as animals, dinosaurs, human history and culturally notable places. She writes for ages ranging from preschool to middle school.

Herman Melville

American writer and poet (1819–1891)

Herman Parish

Herman S. Parish III was an American author, best known for his work on the Amelia Bedelia book series, which was created by his aunt Peggy Parish. Following his aunt's death in 1988, Parish continued the series from 1995 to 2022.

Hermes

Hermes is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods. He is also widely considered the protector of human heralds, travelers, thieves, merchants, and orators. He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine aided by his winged sandals. Hermes plays the role of the psychopomp or "soul guide"—a conductor of souls into the afterlife.

Hilari Bell

American writer

Hilary McKay

English children's writer

Holly Goldberg Sloan

Film director, producer, novelist and screenwriter

Holly Hobbie

American writer and illustrator

Holly Keller

Holly Keller is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

Holly Meade

American artist and illustrator (1956-2013)

Howard Fast

American novelist (1914–2003)

Howard Pyle

American illustrator and author (1853-1911)

Hudson Talbott

American author and cartoonist

Hugh Brewster

author and editor

Hugh Lewin

South African writer (1939-2019)

Hugh Lofting

British author (1886–1947)

Hunt

Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products, for recreation/taxidermy, although it may also be done for resourceful reasons such as removing predators dangerous to humans or domestic animals, to eliminate pests and nuisance animals that damage crops/livestock/poultry or spread diseases, for trade/tourism, or for ecological conservation against overpopulation and invasive species.

Iain Lawrence

Iain Lawrence is a Canadian author for children and young adults. In 2007 he won a Governor General's Literary Award in Children's Literature for Gemini Summer, and in 2011, he was presented with the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People.

Ian Falconer

American illustrator and writer, costume and set designer (1959–2023)

Ian Fleming

Scottish author

Ian Fraser

South African writer and activist

Ian Graham

(born 1953)

Ian Serraillier

British writer

Ian Whybrow

Ian Whybrow is a British writer of children's books, first published in 1989. He has written over 100 books for children, has been translated into 27 languages and is published in 28 countries. His books are humorous and range from picture books to novels, short stories and poetry.

Ilene Cooper

American author

Ingrid Law

American writer

Ingrid Lee

writer (1948- )

Irene Hunt

American children's writer (1902–2001)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Polish-American writer (1904–1991)

Ivy Ruckman

Ivy Ruckman, formally Iva Mae Myers Ruckman, was an American author of books for children and young adults. Her works include Melba the Brain and Night of the Twisters, inspired by a 1980 tornado event, the latter of which was made into a 1996 movie. Night of the Twisters was a best seller. A graduate of Hastings College, Ruckman lived in Salt Lake City, Utah.

J Preller

A. J. Preller is an American professional baseball executive who is the president of baseball operations and general manager of the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was hired by the Padres on August 5, 2014, while serving as the assistant general manager for the Texas Rangers, overseeing the player development and scouting departments and serving as a key advisor on all player acquisitions. At the time, he was 37 years old.

J. Brian Pinkney

Karen S. Hesse is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. She received the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (1997).

J. California Cooper

American playwright, novelist. short story writer

J. Patrick Lewis

American children's writer and poet

Jack Finney

American novelist and short story writer (1911–1995)

Jack Gantos

Jack Gantos is an American author of children's books. He is best known for the fictional characters Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza. Rotten Ralph is a cat who stars in twenty picture books written by Gantos and illustrated by Nicole Rubel from 1976 to 2014. Joey Pigza is a boy with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), featured in five novels from 1998 to 2014.

Jack Kent

illustrator (1920–1985)

Jack Lewis

United States Marine (1924-2009)

Jack London

American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)

Jack Prelutsky

Jack Prelutsky is an American writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate from 2006 to 2008 when the Poetry Foundation established the award.

Jackie French

Jacqueline Anne French , known professionally as Jackie French, is an Australian author who has written across several genres for both adults and children. Her most notable works include Rain Stones, Diary of a Wombat, The Girl from Snowy River and Hitler's Daughter. Several of her books have been recommended for teaching the Australian Curriculum. French lives in Braidwood, New South Wales, with her second husband Bryan Sullivan.

Jackie French Koller

American writer

Jackie Hopkins

Katie Olivia Hopkins is an English media personality, far-right political commentator, and former columnist and businesswoman. She was a contestant on the third series of the reality show The Apprentice in 2007; following further appearances in the media, she became a columnist for British national newspapers, including The Sun and MailOnline. In 2015, Hopkins appeared on the fifteenth series of the reality show Celebrity Big Brother, where she finished as runner-up, and hosted her own talk show, If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World. The following year she became a presenter for the talk radio station LBC.

Jackie Urbanovic

Jackie Urbanovic is an American New York Times best-selling author and illustrator. The majority of her work consists of children's picture books, including her self-authored Max the Duck series. She regularly speaks at libraries and educational events for children. She was a member of the Children's Book Guild. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she has a studio for her work.

Jaclyn Moriarty

Jaclyn Moriarty is an Australian novelist, most known for her young adult literature. She is a recipient of the Davitt Award and the Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction.

Jacqueline Briggs Martin

American author, teacher

Jacqueline Jules

American writer

Jacqueline Kelly

American children's writer

Jacqueline Wilson

Dame Jacqueline Wilson is an English novelist known for her children's literature. Her novels have tackled realistic topics such as adoption and divorce. Since her debut novel in 1969, Wilson has written more than 100 books.

Jacqueline Woodson

American children's writer and novelist (born 1963)

James A. Owen

James A. Owen is an American comic book illustrator, publisher and writer. He is known for his creator-owned comic book series Starchild and as the author of The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica novel series, that began with Here, There Be Dragons in 2006.

James Carville

American political consultant

James Cooper

British podcaster

James D. Houston

American novelist and essayist (1933–2009)

James Daugherty

American painter and children's book author (1889-1974)

James Giblin

James Cross Giblin was an American children's author and editor. He won a Golden Kite Award and the Sibert Medal.

James Grippando

American novelist and lawyer

James Haskins

American writer (1941–2005)

James Heneghan

author

James Herriot

veterinary surgeon and writer (1916-1995)

James Howe

James Howe is an American children's writer who has written more than 79 juvenile and young adult fiction books. He is best known for the Bunnicula series about a vampire rabbit that sucks the juice out of vegetables.

James Lincoln Collier

Skilled musician and author

James Marshall

American illustrator and writer of children's books (1942-1992)

James Preller

American writer

James Ramsey Ullman

American writer and mountaineer (1907–1971)

James Rollins

James Paul Czajkowski, better known by his pen name of James Rollins, is an American veterinarian and writer of action-adventure/thriller, mystery, and techno-thriller novels who gave up his veterinary practice in Sacramento, California to be a full-time author. Rollins' experiences and expertise as an amateur spelunker and a certified scuba diver have provided content for some of his novels, which are often set in underground or underwater locations. Under the pen name James Clemens, he has also published fantasy novels, such as Wit'ch Fire, Wit'ch Storm, Wit'ch War, Wit'ch Gate, Wit'ch Star, Shadowfall (2005), and Hinterland (2006).

James Stevenson

American illustrator (1929-2017)

James Thurber

American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright (1894–1961)

Jamie Gilson

American children's writer (1933-2020)

Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress, producer, and children's author. Known for her performances in the horror and slasher genres, alongside multiple comedies, she is regarded as a "scream queen". As of 2023, her films have grossed over $2.5 billion at the box office. Curtis has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two Golden Globes, and two Actor Awards, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.

Jan Berenstain

Stanley Melvin Berenstain and Janice Marian Berenstain were American writers and illustrators best known for creating the children's book series The Berenstain Bears.

Jan Brett

American children's illustrator and writer

Jan Hudson

Janis "Jan" Mary Hudson was a Canadian writer.

Jan Ormerod

Australian illustrator (1946–2013)

Jan Slepian

American writer (1921–2016)

Jan Wahl

American writer (1933-2019)

Jane Belk Moncure

American writer (1926-2013)

Jane Breskin Zalben

American children's literature author and illustrator

Jane Chapman

illustrator and author of children's books

Jane Clarke

English writer of children's books and poetry

Jane Cutler

American writer

Jane Kurtz

Jane Kurtz is an American writer of more than forty picture books, middle-grade novels, nonfiction, ready-to-reads, and books for educators. A member of the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in children's and adult literature, Kurtz is an international advocate for literacy and writing. She was also part of a small group of volunteers who organized the not-for-profit organization, Ethiopia Reads, which has established more than seventy libraries for children, published books, and built four schools in rural Ethiopia.

Jane Langton

Jane Gillson Langton was an American author of children's literature and mystery novels. She also illustrated her novels.

Jane Leslie Conly

Jane Leslie Conly is an American author, the daughter of author Robert C. O'Brien. She started her literary work by finishing the manuscript for her father's Z for Zachariah in 1974 after his death.

Jane Louise Curry

Jane Louise Curry, born September 24, 1932, in East Liverpool, Ohio, is a prolific author of adventure, fantasy, mystery, time travel, and American Indian tales for older children and teenagers. She has written 39 books.

Jane Manning

British soprano (1938-2021)

Jane O'Connor

Fancy Nancy is a 2005 children's picture book series written by Jane O'Connor and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Its first book entry spent nearly 100 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, resulting in the launch of a series that now spawns over 100 titles, with sales of more than 50 million volumes. Fancy Nancy has been on Publishers Weekly's bestseller list for picture books, was a Children's Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and a Junior Library Guild Selection. It also won a "Borders 2006 Original Voices" award and has been translated into 20 languages, including Hungarian and Hebrew. In April 2012, Nancy was featured in her first chapter book, Nancy Clancy: Super Sleuth. The Fancy Nancy book series have now spent 330 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and in the autumn/fall of 2012, Fancy Nancy the Musical was produced by Vital Theatre Company in New York City. On March 27, 2015, Disney Junior signed for the rights to create an animated television series starring Fancy Nancy, which premiered on July 13, 2018.

Jane Ray

British illustrator

Jane Resh Thomas

American children's writer (born 1936)

Jane Simmons

childrens author

Jane Wattenberg

American illustrator and writer

Jane Yolen

American speculative fiction and children's writer

Janeen Brian

South Australian writer

Janell Cannon

American artist, children's illustrator and writer

Janet Quin-Harkin

Janet Quin-Harkin is an author best known for her mystery novels for adults written under the name Rhys Bowen.

Janet S. Wong

American children's book author (born 1962)

Janet Tashjian

Janet Tashjian is an American writer living in Los Angeles. Her children's and young adult fiction is published by Henry Holt and Company. Her books often incorporate different formats and play with the line between fiction and nonfiction. She is the mother of Jake Tashjian, who illustrated her My Life and Einstein the Class Hamster series.

Janet Taylor Lisle

American writer

Janette Rallison

American writer (born 1966)

Janice May Udry

Janice May Udry was an American author of children's literature, primarily of picture books.

Janice N. Harrington

American poet and storyteller

Jason Chin

Children's book author and illustrator

Jason Porterfield

René Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, logician, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science during the Renaissance era. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry.

Jay Bennett

Jay Walter Bennett was an American multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer, and singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the band Wilco from 1994 to 2001.

Jay Lynch

American cartoonist (1945–2017)

Jean Craighead George

Jean Carolyn Craighead George was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery Honor My Side of the Mountain. Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world. Beside children's fiction, she wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and one autobiography published 30 years before her death, Journey Inward.

Jean Ferris

American children's writer (1939–2015)

Jean Fritz

American children's writer (1915-2017)

Jean Langerman

Langerman is a surname. It is the surname of:Jean and Jo Langerman, American twin professional women's basketball players for the All-American Red Heads John Langerman, Mayflower passenger, servant of Christopher Martin Stefan Langerman, Belgian mathematician and computer scientist Tebogo Langerman, South African footballer

Jean Little

Jean Little, CM was a Canadian writer of over 50 books. Her work mainly consisted of children's literature, but she also wrote two autobiographies: Little by Little and Stars Come Out Within. Little was partially blind since birth as a result of scars on her cornea and was frequently accompanied by a guide dog.

Jean Marzollo

American writer (1942–2018)

Jean Merrill

American children's writer (1923–2012)

Jean Pendziwol

Canadian writer of children's literature (born 1965)

Jean Thesman

American writer

Jean Van Leeuwen

American children's writer

Jean Webster

American novelist (1876-1916)

Jeanette Winter

American author and illustrator (1939–2025)

Jeanne Betancourt

Jeanne Betancourt is an American author and television script writer best known for her Pony Pals series of books.

Jeanne Birdsall

American children's writer (born 1951)

Jeanne DuPrau

Jeanne DuPrau is an American author, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of science fiction novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

American writer

Jeanne Willis

English writer

Jeannette Caines

American author of children's books

Jeff Borkin

American screenwriter

Jeff Corwin

Jeffrey Corwin is an American biologist and wildlife conservationist, known for hosting Disney Channel's Going Wild with Jeff Corwin, The Jeff Corwin Experience on Animal Planet, ABC's Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin/Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin and Wildlife Nation with Jeff Corwin.

Jeff Fisher

American author, sports journalist and play-by-play announcer

Jen Green

British writer

Jennifer Allison

author

Jennifer Blizin Gillis

(born 1950)

Jennifer Donnelly

American writer of young adult fiction

Jennifer L. Holm

American children's writer and young adult author (born 1968)

Jennifer Marks

American singer-songwriter

Jennifer Roy

American children's writer

Jenny Davis

American young adult fiction author

Jenny Nimmo

British author of children's books

Jeremy Treglown

British writer

Jerry D. Thompson

American historian and professor

Jerry Pinkney

American writer and children's book illustrator (1939–2021)

Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. His novels include Maniac Magee, Stargirl, and Wringer.

Jerry Stanley

author

Jerry Terheyden

The Fantastic Four, often abbreviated as FF, is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team debuted in The Fantastic Four #1, helping usher in a new level of realism in the medium. It was the first superhero team created by artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby and editor/writer Stan Lee, and through this title the "Marvel method" style of production came into prominence.

Jessica Burkhart

Jessica Ashley, better known by her pen name Jessica Burkhart, is an American author. Burkhart works primarily in the tween fiction genre, and is the writer of the Canterwood Crest series of novels.

Jessica Day George

writer

Jessica Scott Kerrin

Canadian writer

Jez Alborough

Jez Alborough is an English writer and illustrator of children's picture books that have been translated into at least 15 languages and have been recognized for numerous awards.

Jill Barklem

Jill Barklem was a British writer and illustrator of children's books. Her most famous work is the Brambly Hedge series, published from 1980.

Jill Kalz

Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education happens in a complex institutional framework, like public schools. Non-formal education is also structured but occurs outside the formal schooling system, while informal education is unstructured learning through daily experiences. Formal and non-formal education are divided into levels that include early childhood education, primary education, secondary education, and tertiary education. Other classifications focus on the teaching method, like teacher-centered and student-centered education, and on the subject, like science education, language education, and physical education. The term "education" can also refer to the mental states and qualities of educated people and the academic field studying educational phenomena.

Jill Krementz

American photographer and author (born 1940)

Jill L. Donahue

Jill Kargman is an American author, writer and actress. A common theme in her works is critical examination of the lives of wealthy women in her city. Her 2007 Momzillas was adapted into the Bravo television show Odd Mom Out, which premiered June 8, 2015.

Jill McCorkle

American writer

Jill Murphy

Jill Frances Murphy was a British author and illustrator of children's books. First published by Allison & Busby in 1974, she was best known for the Worst Witch novels and Large Family picture books, with sales amounting to several millions. Her books were adapted for stage and television. She was called "one of the most engaging writers and illustrators for children in the land".

Jill Paton Walsh

novelist and children's writer from England

Jillian Powell

writer (1957- )

Jim Arnosky

naturalist

Jim Aylesworth

writer (b. 1943)

Jim Benton

American illustrator and children's writer, known for It's Happy Bunny

Jim Dale

Jim Dale is an English actor, director, narrator, singer and songwriter. In the United Kingdom he is known as a pop singer of the 1950s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. In British film, along with Larry Dann, Angela Douglas, Patricia Franklin, Hugh Futcher, Alexandra Dane, Jill Goldston, Valerie Leon, Jacki Piper, Anita Harris and many others, he is now the only surviving main actor of the Carry On films.

Jim Harris

American writer

Jim Kjelgaard

American author (1910-1959)

Jim Murphy

American children's writer of history

Jinny Johnson

born:1949-01-31|; Johnson, Jinny; Johnson, Jinny May 1949-

Jo Ellen Bogart

Canadian writer

Joan Abelove

novelist

Joan Aiken

English writer (1924–2004)

Joan Bauer

American children's writer

Joan Holub

American writer

Joan L. Nodset

Steven Castle Kellogg is an American author and illustrator who has created more than 90 children's books.

Joan Lowery Nixon

Joan Lowery Nixon was an American journalist and author, specializing in historical fiction and mysteries for children and young adults.

Joan Robins

Joan Rafferty Robins OBE was a British television personality and author, best known for her cookery programmes.

Joan Steiner

American illustrator (1943-2010)

Joanna Campbell

Thoroughbred is a series of young-adult novels that revolves around Kentucky Thoroughbred racing and equestrianism. The series was created in 1991 by Joanna Campbell, and comprises 72 main-line books, several "super editions" and a spin-off series, Ashleigh. The series focuses on a group of core characters across multiple decades.

Joanna Cole

American children's books author (1944-2020)

Joanne Mattern

Children's book writer and editor

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Jodi Lynn Anderson is an American children's writer.

Jodi Picoult

American author

Jody Sullivan Rake

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Joe Cottonwood

American writer

Johann David Wyss

Johann David Wyss was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (1812). He was born and died in Bern. It is said that he was inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, but wanted to write a story from which his own children would learn, as the father in the story taught important lessons to his children. The Swiss Family Robinson was first published in German in 1812, then translated into English two years later. The book was edited by his son, Johann Rudolf Wyss, a scholar known for writing the Swiss national anthem, Rufst du, mein Vaterland. Another of Wyss's sons, Johann Emmanuel Wyss, illustrated the book. Johann David Wyss died in 1818 at the age of 74. He lived longer than his son Johann Rudolf, who would die twelve years later at the age of 48.

Johanna Hurwitz

American children's writer

Johanna Spyri

Swiss writer (1827–1901)

John Archambault

American writer, storyteller, poet, musician for children

John Bellairs

John Anthony Bellairs was an American author best known for his fantasy novel The Face in the Frost and many Gothic mystery novels for children featuring the characters Lewis Barnavelt, Rose Rita Pottinger, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. Most of his books were illustrated by Edward Gorey. At the time of his death, Bellairs' books had sold a quarter-million copies in hard cover and more than a million and a half copies in paperback.

John Bunyan

English Christian writer and preacher (1628-1688)

John Burningham

British children's illustrator and writer (1936–2019)

John Butler

American dancer and choreographer (1920-1993)

John Coiley

John Arthur Coiley (1932–1998) was an English museum curator, principally associated with the National Railway Museum in York from its formation in the 1973-5 period, through to his retirement as keeper of the museum in 1992.

John Coy

American children's author.

John Flanagan

Australian fantasy author (1944–2026)

John George

American author and academic (born 1936)

John Grisham

John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American writer, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three Anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing.

John H. Ritter

American novelist

John Hamilton

New Zealand writer (1827–1893), founder of the Burns Club in Dunedin

John Lithgow

American actor (born 1945)

John M. Langstaff

Macaulay Kevin Langstaff is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL Championship club Millwall.

John Marsden

Australian writer (1950–2024)

John Martin

English painter, engraver and illustrator (1789–1854)

John Neufeld

US author (1938- ), mostly for young adult readers

John Peterson

American writer

John R. Erickson

American author (1943-)

John R. Tunis

Sportscaster, author

John Reynolds Gardiner

Children's author, teacher (1944–2006)

John Rice

poet, born 1948

John Schoenherr

American illustrator (1935-2010)

John Steinbeck

American writer (1902–1968)

John Steptoe

African American writer (1950-1989)

John Stewart

hymnist

John Townsend

author of juvenile literature

John Vernon Lord

British artist

John Vornholt

American writer and journalist

John White

American writer (b. 1939)

Jon Agee

American creator

Jon Mitchell

Welsh journalist and author

Jon Scieszka

children's writer and reading advocate from the United States

Jonah Winter

American author

Jonathan Emmett

Jonathan Emmett is a British children's author and pop-up book designer. He is best known for his picture books including Bringing Down the Moon, Someone Bigger and The Princess and the Pig. His books have won several awards including the Red House Children's Book Award for Pigs Might Fly and The Week Junior Book Awards 2024, Children’s Book of the Year: Animals and Nature for The Tyrannosaurs's Feathers.

Jonathan London

American writer

Jonathan Stroud

British writer of fantasy fiction

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)

Jonny Duddle

author and illustrator

Joseph Bruchac

Joseph Bruchac is an American writer and storyteller based in New York.

Joseph Kertes

writer

Joseph Krumgold

American children's writer

Joseph Plumb Martin

American revolutionary war soldier; farmer; public official

Josepha Sherman

American writer (1946-2012)

Josephine Poole

British children's/YA writer (1933-)

Joy Adamson

Austrian-British naturalist, painter, writer, collector and illustrator (1910–1980)

Joy Cowley

New Zealand writer

Joyce Carol Oates

American author (born 1938)

Joyce Carol Thomas

American poet and playwright

Joyce Dunbar

English children's writer

Joyce Milton

writer

Joyce Rockwood

American creator

Joyce Sweeney

American writer

Juanita Havill

American writer

Jude Watson

Judy Blundell, pseudonym Jude Watson, is an American author of books for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers. She won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2008 for the young adult novel What I Saw and How I Lied, published under her real name by Scholastic Books.

Jude Welton

born:1955-02-13|; Welton, Jude, 1955-

Judi Barrett

American children's author

Judith Byron Schachner

American children's writer and illustrator (born 1951)

Judith Guest

Judith Guest is an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and is the great-niece of Poet Laureate Edgar Guest (1881–1959). She is a recipient of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.

Judith Jango-Cohen

naturalist

Judith Moffatt

The 2003 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 2003 by the Governor General of Australia, Peter Hollingworth.

Judith Viorst

American writer

Judy Blume

American children's writer (born 1938)

Judy Sierra

American children's writer (born 1945)

Judy Waite

English writer and illustrator

Judy Wolfman

American author of children's books

Jules Feiffer

American cartoonist, screenwriter and playwright (1929–2025)

Jules Older

Jules is a 2023 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Marc Turtletaub and written by Gavin Steckler. It stars Ben Kingsley, Harriet Sansom Harris, Zoë Winters, Jade Quon, and Jane Curtin.

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

Julia Alvarez

Dominican-American poet, novelist, essayist (born 1950)

Julia Donaldson

English children's writer

Julian Fellowes

English actor, dramatist, director, novelist, producer and screenwriter

Julian Scheer

journalist (1926-2001)

Julie Andrews

British actress, singer and author (born 1935)

Julie Balmes

Julie Frances Christie is a British actress. Christie's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in six films ranked in the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century, and in 1997, she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.

Julie Edwards

Julie Morgan is a Welsh Labour Party politician, who was a Member of the Senedd for Cardiff North seat in the Senedd from the 2011 election until 2026. She was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff North from 1997 until 2010.

Julie Jensen

American playwright

Julie Johnston

Julie Beth Ertz is an American former professional soccer player. From 2014 to 2021, she played for National Women's Soccer League club Chicago Red Stars, and in 2023 she played for Angel City FC. A member of the United States women's national team from 2013 to 2023, she first appeared for the United States national team during an international friendly against Scotland on February 9, 2013, eventually making 123 total appearances for the team.

Julie Markes

Julie Markes is an American children's book writer. She has also worked as a photographer for the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press.

Juliet Clutton-Brock

Juliet Clutton-Brock, FSA, FZS was an English zooarchaeologist and curator, specialising in domesticated mammals. From 1969 to 1993, she worked at the Natural History Museum. Between 1999 and 2006, she was the managing editor of the Journal of Zoology.

Julius Lester

Julius Bernard Lester was an American writer of books for children and adults and an academic who taught for 32 years (1971–2003) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Lester was also a civil rights activist, a photographer, and a musician who recorded two albums of folk music and original songs.

June Rae Wood

American children's writer

Justin Richardson

American writer

K. A. Applegate

Katherine Alice Applegate, known professionally as K. A. Applegate, is an American young adult and children's fiction writer, best known as the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, and Everworld book series. She won the 2013 Newbery Medal for her 2012 children's novel The One and Only Ivan. Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She won the Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 in Publishers Weekly. Her book Home of the Brave has won several awards. She also wrote a chapter book series in 2008–09 called Roscoe Riley Rules.

K. Egan

Ballinasloe is a town in the easternmost part of County Galway, Ireland, situated on the River Suck, which forms the boundary with County Roscommon. Located at an ancient crossing point on the river, evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of Bronze Age sites. Built around a 12th-century castle, which defended the fording point, the modern town of Ballinasloe was "founded" in the early 13th century. As of the 2022 census, it was one of the largest towns in County Galway, with a population of 6,597 people.

K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her 2011 collection Life on Mars. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.

Kadir Nelson

American children's illustrator and writer

Karen Ackerman

Karen Ackerman is an American author of children's books.

Karen Chinn

American picture book author (1959-2003)

Karen Cushman

American writer

Karen Hesse

Karen S. Hesse is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. She received the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (1997).

Karen Katz

American writer

Karen Lynn Williams

Karen Lynn Williams is an American writer of children's literature. She is best known for her books about the difficulties of children in developing countries.

Karen Zeinert

National Donut Day or National Doughnut Day, celebrated in the United States and in some other countries, is on the first Friday of June of each year, succeeding the donut event created by The Salvation Army in Chicago in 1938 to honor those of their members who served donuts to soldiers during World War I. The holiday celebrates the donut. Many American donut stores offer free donuts on the occasion.

Karla Kuskin

Karla Kuskin was a prolific American author, poet, illustrator, and reviewer of children's literature. Kuskin was known for her poetic, alliterative style.

Kate Aldous

Anne Fine is an English writer. She is best known for writing children's books, although she also writes for adults. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and she was appointed an OBE in 2003.

Kate Banks

American French children's writer

Kate Brian

Kieran Scott is an American author of chick lit books as The Princess and the Pauper, Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys, The Virginity Club, Sweet 16, Fake Boyfriend, and the Private series. Books published under Scott's own name include She's So Dead to Us, I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader, which was nominated for YALSA's Teens Top Ten, Brunettes Strike Back, A Non-Blonde Cheerleader in Love, and Geek Magnet.

Kate DiCamillo

American children's writer (born 1964)

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Kate Douglas Wiggin was an American educator, author and composer. She wrote children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and composed collections of children's songs. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878. With her sister Nora during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor.

Kate Feiffer

Jules Ralph Feiffer was an American cartoonist and author, who at one time was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for editorial cartooning and, in 2004, Feiffer was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized Feiffer's "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor.

Kate Klimo

author of juvenile literature

Kate Klise

American writer known for children's fiction

Kate McMullan

Kate McMullan is an American author of children's books. She has published over 100 books. Notable works include the Myth-o-Mania and Dragon Slayers' Academy book series.

Kate Spohn

writer

Kate Thompson

(born 1974)

Katharine Holabird

American writer

Katharine Muzik

Precious coral, or red coral, is the common name given to a genus of marine corals, Corallium. The distinguishing characteristic of precious corals is their durable and intensely colored red or pink-orange skeleton, which is used for making jewelry.

Katherine Applegate

Katherine Alice Applegate, known professionally as K. A. Applegate, is an American young adult and children's fiction writer, best known as the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, and Everworld book series. She won the 2013 Newbery Medal for her 2012 children's novel The One and Only Ivan. Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She won the Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 in Publishers Weekly. Her book Home of the Brave has won several awards. She also wrote a chapter book series in 2008–09 called Roscoe Riley Rules.

Katherine Coville

Bruce Farrington Coville is an author of young adult fiction. Coville was first published in 1977 and has written over 100 books.

Katherine Hannigan

Katherine Hannigan is a children's and young adults' writer.

Katherine Kellgren

Katherine Ingrid Kellgren or Kjellgren was an American actress, known for her narration of audiobooks.

Katherine Kirkpatrick

Sage Kirkpatrick is a Czech actress best known for playing Dexter Morgan's mother, Laura Moser, in the Showtime TV drama series, Dexter. She is sometimes credited under the name Katherine Kirkpatrick.

Katherine Langrish

Katherine Langrish is a British author of fantasy for children and young adults. She was brought up in Yorkshire and Herefordshire, and wanted to be a writer from a young age. She was encouraged by her parents, and by the fact that her grandmother was a Yorkshire novelist and playwright of the 1930s, Leonora Thornber.

Katherine Marsh

American children's novelist and journalist

Katherine Paterson

American children's writer born and mainly raised in China

Katherine Preston

Katherine Preston was a British college head of Alexandra College in Ireland.

Katherine Tegen

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American multinational publishing conglomerate that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster. HarperCollins is headquartered in London and New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp.

Kathi Appelt

American children's writer and writing teacher

Kathleen Duey

Spinetinglers is a series of 30 standalone middle-grade horror novels, written by multiple authors and published under the pseudonym, M.T. Coffin.

Kathleen Ernst

The American Girl series, by various authors, is a collection of novels set within toy line's fictional universe. Since its inception, American Girl has published books based on the dolls, with novels and other media to tie in with their dolls. The books follow various American girls throughout both historical eras and contemporary settings.

Kathleen Karr

Kathleen Karr was an American author of historical novels for children and young adults. She is the winner of the Golden Kite Award for her book, The Boxer.

Kathleen Krull

American children's writer and editor (1952-2021)

Kathleen Martin-James

Canadian writer

Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky is an American children's writer who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of the Beyond, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. Her awards include Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature, National Jewish Book Award, and Newbery Honor.

Kathryn Reiss

American writer

Kathryn Wentzel Lumley

American educator and children's book author

Kathy Henderson

(born 1949)

Kathy Lynn Emerson

American writer

Katy Kelly

author of "Melonhead and the Later Gator Plan"

Kay Chorao

American artist and creator of picture books

Kay Thompson

American author, singer, dancer, actress, and choreographer (1909–1998)

Kaye Gibbons

American novelist

Kaye Umansky

British writer

Kazu Kibuishi

Japanese American animator, comics creator, illustrator

Keiko Kasza

Japanese American author and illustrator

Keith Baker

Irish journalist and thriller writer

Keith Robertson

American children's writer

Kelly Milner Halls

(born 1957)

Kelly Murphy

American writer and illustrator

Ken Brown

British guitarist

Kenn Nesbitt

American writer

Kenneth C. Davis

American historian

Kenneth Grahame

British novelist

Kenneth Oppel

Kenneth Oppel is a Canadian children's writer.

Kerry Argent

illustrator of children's books (born 1960)

Kevin Brockmeier

American writer

Kevin Charles

Kevin Charles O'Connor is an American physician and retired U.S. Army colonel who served as the physician to the president under Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump. He was replaced by Sean Barbabella on March 7, 2025.

Kevin Henkes

Kevin Henkes is an American author of children's books. He is known for writing and illustrating picture books, the most notable of which feature young anthropomorphic mice as their main characters. Henkes also writes middle-grade fiction. As an illustrator, he won the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon (2004). Two of Henkes' books were Newbery Medal Honor Books, Olive's Ocean in 2004 and The Year of Billy Miller in 2014. His picture book Waiting was named both a 2016 Caldecott Honor Book and a Geisel Honor Book. It was only the second time any author has won that combination of awards.

Khadra Mohammed

Somali children's writer and refugee center director

Kiki Thorpe

American writer

Kim Antieau

American writer (1955-)

Kim Lewis

children's author

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

American writer

Kimberly Willis Holt

American children's writer

Kin Platt

Kin Platt was an American writer, artist, painter, sculptor, caricaturist, and comics artist, best known for penning radio comedy and animated TV series, as well as children's mystery novels, one of which earned him the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award.

Kirby Larson

Kirby Lane Larson is an American writer of children's books including Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award-winner The Magic Kerchief, illustrated by Rosanne Litzinger. Her book, Hattie Big Sky, was a finalist for the 2007 Scandiuzzi Book Award of the Washington State Book Awards, and won a 2007 Newbery Honor. Kirby is retired from the faculty at the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program. Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival and Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle both have won a Show-Me Award.

Kit Pearson

Canadian writer

Kristiana Gregory

American children's writer

Kropp

Kropp is a municipality in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 13 km south of Schleswig.

L Harrison

George Leslie Harrison was an American banker, insurance executive and advisor to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson during World War II.

L. Frank Baum

American author of children's books (1856–1919)

Lane Smith

American author and illustrator of children's books

Larry Dane Brimner

Larry Dane Brimner is an American teacher, presenter, and writer of more than 150 children's books. They have ranged from fantasy-style stories for young children to non-fiction books for older children. Many of his books have civil rights themes; his book We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin won the 2008 Jane Addams Children's Book Award in the "older children" category. This was followed by Birmingham Sunday, which received the Orbis Pictus Honor Book Award in 2011 from the National Council for Teachers of English and the Eureka! Gold Award from the California Reading Association. His 2011 title, Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor, was given the Carter G. Woodson Book Award and named a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book. More recently, Brimner has started writing about the migrant children he once taught with the publication of STRIKE! The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights, which received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews.

Lauber

Lauber is a surname, and may refer to:Albert G. Lauber, judge of the United States Tax Court Anne Lauber, Canadian composer, conductor and music educator Dezső Lauber (1879–1966), Hungarian all-round sportsman and architect Friederike Lauber (1937–1996), Austrian table tennis player Ken Lauber, American composer and musician Manfred Lauber of the duo Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber, German half-brothers convicted of murder Maria Lauber (1891–1973), Swiss writer Marius Lauber, German musician Patricia Lauber (1924–2010), American author

Laura Dower

American writer

Laura Hamilton Waxman

Children's book author

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the children's book series Little House on the Prairie, published between 1932 and 1943, which was based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.

Laura Joffe Numeroff

Laura Joffe Numeroff is an American author and illustrator of children's books who is best known as the author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

Laura Ruby

Laura Ruby is an American author of twelve books, including Bone Gap (2015), winner of the 2016 Michael L. Printz Award and finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. She is also a professor at Hamline University.

Lauren Child

author and illustrator especially known for Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean, and My Uncle is a Hunkle

Lauren Myracle

American children's writer

Lauren Tarshis

author of I Survived series and Emma Lazarus

Lauren Thompson

Lauren Thompson is an American television personality, print model and voiceover actor who worked for Golf Channel, mostly as a co-host on "Morning Drive", the channel's daily morning show. She has been a host of "Top Ten", the "College Sports Minute" and is currently a host for GolfNow. She is also known for having worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as a backstage interviewer.

Laurence Anholt

UK-based author/illustrator

Laurence Yep

Laurence Michael Yep is an American writer. He is known for his children's books, having won the Newbery Honor twice for his Golden Mountain series. In 2005, he received the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his career contribution to American children's literature.

Laurent de Brunhoff

Laurent de Brunhoff was a French author and illustrator, known primarily for continuing the Babar the Elephant series of children's books that was created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff.

Laurie Halse Anderson

American children's writer

Laurie Keller

American children's writer and illustrator

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Lee Bennett Hopkins was an American educator, poet, author, and anthologist. He was the author or editor of over 100 books for children, as well as a number of books and articles for adults.

Lee Hill

author

Lee Wardlaw

American writer

Leigh Sauerwein

American writer living in Berlin

Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler and a fictional character of his creation. Handler has published various children's books under the name, including A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned a 2004 film and Netflix TV series from 2017 to 2019 of the same name. Lemony Snicket also serves as the in-universe author who investigates and re-tells the story of the Baudelaire orphans in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Lensey Namioka

Chinese-born American children's writer

Leo Landry

American author and illustrator of children's books

Leo Lionni

Dutch-Italian artist and children's writer (1910-1999)

Leo P. Kelley

American writer

Leo Politi

Italian-American artist and children's writer (1908-1996)

Leon Garfield

English children's writer (1921-1996)

Leon Walter Tillage

American children's writer (1937-2011)

Leonard Everett Fisher

American artist, creator of picture books (1924–2024)

Leonard Kessler

American children's writer (1920–2022)

Lesa Cline-Ransome

American writer

Lesléa Newman

American writer

Lesley M. M. Blume

American writer

Leslie Margolis

American writer

Leslie Staub

American children's writer and book illustrator

Li Ming

Tang dynasty person CBDB = 13882

Libba Bray

American teen writer

Lila Prap

Children's writer and illustrator

Lilian Moore

American writer (1909–2004)

Lillian Hoban

Lillian Hoban was an American illustrator and children's writer best known for picture books created with her husband Russell Hoban. According to OCLC, she has published 326 works in 1,401 publications in 11 languages.

Lin Oliver

American writer and film producer

Linas Alsenas

Linas Alsenas is a gay Lithuanian-American author and book illustrator. After attending Harvard University, where he was an illustrator for the campus newspaper, he moved to New York City and worked as an editor for Interior Design magazine and then at Abrams Books for Young Readers. In 2006, Scholastic released his first picture book, Mrs. Claus Takes a Vacation, which he wrote and illustrated. In 2007, Scholastic released Peanut, followed by Hello My Name Is Bob in 2009.

Lincoln Peirce

American cartoonist

Linda Bailey

Canadian author

Linda Buckley-Archer

British writer (1958-)

Linda Crew

American writer

Linda Ellerbee

American journalist

Linda Lowery

American writer

Linda Smith

Canadian writer

Linda Sue Park

American author (born 1960)

Lisa Graff

Lisa Colleen Graff is an American teen and children's book writer. Her books have been included in state awards lists and best books of the years lists.

Lisa McMann

Lisa McMann is an American author and the creator of The Unwanteds and The Unwanteds Quests series for young readers and the WAKE trilogy for young adults.

Lisa Papademetriou

American writer

Lisa Yee

American writer

Liselotte Erdrich

The Carter G. Woodson Book Award is an American literary award created in 1973 by the Racism and Social Justice Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies to promote cultural literacy in children and young adults.

Lisi Harrison

Canadian writer

Liz Kessler

British children's writer

Lloyd Alexander

American children's writer (1924-2007)

Lois Duncan

American young-adult and children's writer (1934-2016)

Lois Ehlert

American illustrator and children's writer (1934-2021)

Lois Gladys Leppard

American writer

Lois Lenski

Lois Lenore Lenski Covey was a Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator of picture books and children's literature. Beginning in 1927 with her first books, Skipping Village and Jack Horner's Pie: A Book of Nursery Rhymes, Lenski published 98 books, including several posthumously. Her work includes children's picture books and illustrated chapter books, songbooks, poetry, short stories, her 1972 autobiography, Journey into Childhood, and essays about books and children's literature. Her best-known bodies of work include the "Mr. Small" series of picture books (1934–62); her "Historical" series of novels, including the Newbery Honor-winning titles Phebe Fairchild: Her Book (1936) and Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison (1941); and her "Regional" series, including Newbery Medal-winning Strawberry Girl (1945) and Children's Book Award-winning Judy's Journey (1947).

Lois Lowry

American writer

Lola M. Schaefer

American children's author

Lore Segal

American novelist, translator, teacher, children's author (1928–2024)

Loren Long

American children's illustrator

Lori Mitchell

Penelope Ann Miller, sometimes credited as Penelope Miller, is an American actress. She began her career on Broadway in the original run of Biloxi Blues (1985–1986), later appearing in the 1988 film adaptation of the same name. After playing small roles in the comedies Adventures in Babysitting (1987) and Big Top Pee-wee (1988), and receiving a Tony Award nomination for her leading role in the Broadway revival of Our Town (1988–1989), Miller came to prominence with a succession of major parts in films such as The Freshman, Awakenings, Kindergarten Cop, Other People's Money (1991), Chaplin (1992), The Shadow (1994), and The Relic (1997). For her portrayal of exotic dancer Gail in Carlito's Way (1993), she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Lou Kassem

Crime 101 is a 2026 crime thriller film starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, and Halle Berry. It is written and directed by Bart Layton, based on the 2020 novella by Don Winslow. The film also features Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte.

Louis L'Amour

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and the Sackett series. L'Amour also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction (Frontier), and poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films. His books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death, almost all of his 105 existing works were still in print, and he was "one of the world's most popular writers".

Louis Sachar

American writer of children's books

Louisa May Alcott

American novelist (1832–1888)

Louise Erdrich

writer from the United States

Louise Moeri

US author (1924- ) mostly for children's and Young Adult

Louise Plummer

American novelist

Louise Rennison

Louise Rennison was an English author and comedian who wrote the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series for teenage girls. The series records the exploits of a teenage girl, Georgia Nicolson, and her best friends, the Ace Gang. Her first and second novels, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers were portrayed in a film adaptation called Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Rennison also wrote a series of books about Georgia's younger cousin, The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey.

Lucille Clifton

American poet (1936-2010)

Lucy Daniels

American novelist and psychologist

Lucy Jane Bledsoe

American writer (born 1957)

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian writer (1874–1942)

Ludwig Bemelmans

author of Madeline books (1939-1999)

Lulu Delacre

Puerto Rican writer

Lydia Monks

British children's author-illustrator

Lynda Durrant

American writer

Lynn Cullen

American author

Lynn Huggins-Cooper

British writer

Lynne Barasch

American children's illustrator and writer

Lynne Cherry

American children's illustrator, nature writer

Lynne Ewing

American author and screenwriter

Lynne Jonell

American children's book author

Lynne Rae Perkins

Lynne Rae Perkins is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

Lynne Reid Banks

Lynne Reid Banks was a British author of books for children and adults, including The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 15 million copies and has been successfully adapted to film. Her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, published in 1960, was an instant and lasting best seller. It was later made into a movie of the same name and led to two sequels, The Backward Shadow and Two is Lonely. Banks also wrote a biography of the Brontë family, entitled Dark Quartet, and a sequel about Charlotte Brontë, Path to the Silent Country.

M Brill

Ronald M. Brill is an American former retail businessman and is a co-founder of the Home Depot. He worked with Arthur Blank and Bernard Marcus at Handy Dan Home Improvement and was fired from that company at the same time they were. Brill was Home Depot's first official employee. He worked with Home Depot for over 20 years, serving as the company's Chief Administration Officer from 1995-2000.

M. E. Kerr

Marijane Agnes Meaker was an American writer who, along with Tereska Torres, was credited with launching the lesbian pulp fiction genre, the only accessible novels on that theme in the 1950s.

M. Hillert

HLA-A3 (A3) is a human leukocyte antigen serotype within HLA-A serotype group. The serotype is determined by the antibody recognition of α3 subset of HLA-A α-chains. For A3, the alpha, "A", chain are encoded by the HLA-A*03 allele group and the β-chain are encoded by B2M locus. This group currently is dominated by A*03:01. A3 and A*03 are almost synonymous in meaning. A3 is more common in Europe, it is part of the longest known multigene haplotype, A3~B7~DR15~DQ6.

M. T. Anderson

American children's writer

MacKinlay Kantor

American journalist, novelist and screenwriter (1904-1977)

Madeleine Dunphy

Ready for This is an Australian teen-oriented television drama series that premiered on ABC3 on 5 October 2015. It follows five Indigenous teenagers who venture across the country to Sydney to pursue their dreams.

Madeleine L'Engle

American writer (1918–2007)

Magdalen Nabb

Magdalen Nabb was a British author, best known for the Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels.

Maia Wojciechowska

Polish-born American children's writer

Maira Kalman

Israeli American artist and creator of children's books (born 1949)

Mal Peet

Malcolm Charles Peet was an English writer and illustrator best known for young adult fiction. He has won several honours including the Brandford Boase, the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize, British children's literature awards that recognise "year's best" books. Three of his novels feature football and the fictional South American sports journalist Paul Faustino. The Murdstone Trilogy (2014) and "Mr Godley's Phantom" were his first works aimed at adult readers.

Malachy Doyle

writer (1954- )

Malu Halasa

United States writer

Mamie Moore

The following is a list of female U.S. presidential and vice presidential nominees and invitees. Nominees are candidates nominated or otherwise selected by political parties for particular offices. Listed as nominees or nomination candidates are those women who achieved ballot access in at least one state. They each may have won the nomination of one of the U.S. political parties, or made the ballot as an independent, and in either case must have votes in the election to qualify for this list. Exception is made for those few candidates whose parties lost ballot status for additional runs.

Mara Bergman

American writer

Mara Rockliff

Mara Rockliff is an American author of children's books specializing in works based on true stories. Her book Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France won an Orbis Pictus Honor from the National Council of Teachers of English. The American Library Association selected her book Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott for a Sibert Honor. She also received the Golden Kite Award for Me and Momma and Big John.

Maranke Rinck

Dutch writer

Marc Brown

American children's writer and illustrator (born 1946)

Marc Kornblatt

American writer

Marc Sumerak

writer

Marcia Brown

American children's illustrator and writer (1918–2015)

Marcia Jones

American author

Marcia Sewall

American writer, illustrator and art teacher

Marcus Pfister

Swiss writer (born 1960)

Marcus Sedgwick

British writer and illustrator (1968-2022)

Margaret Beames

Children's book author (1935-2016)

Margaret Bechard

American writer

Margaret Bloy Graham

Canadian children's illustrator

Margaret Cousins

American writer and editor (1905–1996)

Margaret Craven

American novelist (1901–1980)

Margaret Friskey

American writer

Margaret Goff Clark

US author for children (1913-2004)

Margaret Hillert

American writer

Margaret Hodges

American children's writer, librarian, and storyteller

Margaret K. Wetterer

Elise Primavera is an American author and illustrator of children's novels. She arrived on the literary scene in 1981 as an illustrator for Atheneum, Putnam, and other publishing houses. Over the course of the last three decades, she has been a prolific illustrator and has written and illustrated several well-received books of her own.

Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At her death she was one of thirty writers to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her "lasting contribution to children's literature".

Margaret McMullan

American writer

Margaret Peterson Haddix

American author

Margaret Robinson

Margaret Scott Robinson is a British molecular cell biologist, a professor and researcher in the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, at the University of Cambridge.

Margaret Rostkowski

American writer for young adults (born 1945)

Margaret Sacks

David Oliver Sacks is a South African-American entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet technology firms. He is a general partner of Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund he co-founded in late 2017. Additionally, he is a co-host of the All In podcast, alongside Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis and David Friedberg. Previously, Sacks was the COO and product leader of PayPal, and founder and CEO of Yammer. In 2016, he became interim CEO of Zenefits for ten months. In 2017, Sacks co-founded Craft Ventures, an early-stage venture fund. His angel investments include Facebook, Uber, SpaceX, Palantir Technologies, and Airbnb. In December 2024, President Donald Trump named Sacks the White House AI and crypto czar for the incoming administration.

Margaret Sidney

Harriett Lothrop was an American author also known by her pseudonym Margaret Sidney. In addition to writing popular children's stories, she ran her husband Daniel Lothrop's publishing company after his death. After they bought The Wayside country house, they worked hard to make it a center of literary life. She wrote the popular Five Little Peppers series. Lothrop was also the founder of the Children of the American Revolution.

Margaret Wild

Australian children's writer

Margaret Wise Brown

Margaret Wise Brown was an American writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942), both illustrated by Clement Hurd. She has been called "the laureate of the nursery" for her achievements. Besides her real name, she also used the noms-de-plume Golden MacDonald for Doubleday and Company, Timothy Hay for Harper & Brothers and Juniper Sage for William R. Scott, Inc.

Margery Cuyler

American children's writer

Margery Sharp

Clara Margery Melita Sharp was an English writer of 25 novels for adults, 14 children's novels, four plays, two mysteries, and numerous short stories. Her best-known work is The Rescuers series about a heroic mouse named Miss Bianca and her partner Bernard, which was later adapted into the animated feature film The Rescuers (1977) – and a sequel, The Rescuers Down Under (1990) – by Walt Disney Productions.

Margery Williams

writer (1881-1944)

Margie Palatini

Margie Palatini is an American author of children's picture books. She was born in Edison, New Jersey, and lives in nearby Plainfield, New Jersey. Palatini is a graduate of the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Margo Lanagan

Margo Lanagan is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.

Margot Zemach

American children's illustrator and writer

Margret Rey

Margret Elizabeth Rey was a German-born American writer and illustrator, best known for the Curious George series of children's picture books that she and her husband H. A. Rey created from 1939 to 1966.

Marguerite Henry

Marguerite Henry was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals. She won the Newbery Medal for King of the Wind, a 1948 book about horses, and she was a runner-up for two others. One of the latter, Misty of Chincoteague (1947), was the basis for several related titles and the 1961 movie Misty.

Margy Burns Knight

The Hunger Games is a 2012 American dystopian action film directed by Gary Ross, who co-wrote the screenplay with Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Collins. It is the first installment in The Hunger Games film series. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland. In the film, Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Hutcherson) are forced to compete in the Hunger Games, an elaborate televised fight to the death consisting of adolescent contestants.

Mari Hanes

Samhain or Sauin is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season in autumn and beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. It is also the Irish and Scottish Gaelic name for November. Celebrations begin on the evening of 31 October, since the Celtic day began and ended at sunset. This is about halfway between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice. It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals along with Imbolc, Bealtaine, and Lughnasa. Historically it originated in Ireland and it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. Its Brittonic Celtic equivalent is called Calan Gaeaf in Wales.

Mariah Fredericks

American writer

Marianna Mayer

American writer

Marie Hall Ets

Marie Hall Ets was an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books.

Marie McSwigan

writer

Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick

Irish writer and illustrator

Marie-Louise Gay

Marie-Louise Gay is a Canadian children's writer and illustrator. She has received numerous awards for her written and illustrated works in both French and English, including the 2005 Vicky Metcalf Award, multiple Governor General's Awards, and multiple Janet Savage Blachford Prizes, among others.

Marilyn Hafner

Jack Prelutsky is an American writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate from 2006 to 2008 when the Poetry Foundation established the award.

Marilyn Sachs

American children's writer

Marilyn Singer

American writer

Marina Budhos

writer

Marion Dane Bauer

American author

Marissa Moss

American children's book author

Marjorie Flack

American artist (1897–1958)

Marjorie Newman

American writer

Marjorie Priceman

American writer and illustrator

Mark Burgess

British actor and playwright

Mark Crilley

American comic artist

Mark Jean

American film producer and writer

Mark Reibstein

writer

Mark Teague

Mark Teague is an American author and illustrator of children's books. Teague has illustrated over 40 books including the Poppleton series, the First Graders from Mars series, and The Great Gracie Chase.

Mark Thomas

Mark Clifford Thomas is an English comedian, best known for the political stunts that he performs on his show, The Mark Thomas Comedy Product on Channel 4. Thomas first became known as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show The Mary Whitehouse Experience first broadcast in March 1989. He describes himself as a "libertarian anarchist".

Mark Twain

American author and humorist (1835–1910)

Marla Frazee

American writer and illustrator

Marlene Targ Brill

Softball was on the Olympic program from 1996 to 2008. It was introduced at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and was removed from the program for 2012 and 2016, but was added for a one-off appearance, along with baseball, for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Martha Brooks

Martha Ruth Brooks is a Canadian writer of plays, novels, and short fiction. Her young adult novel True Confessions of a Heartless Girl won the Governor General's Award for English language children's literature in 2002.

Martha E. H. Rustad

American children's book author

Marthe Jocelyn

Marthe Jocelyn is a Canadian writer of over forty children's books. In 2009, she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, an honour bestowed by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer or illustrator whose body of work has been "inspirational to Canadian youth".

Martin Jenkins

British creator

Martin Schwabacher

Schwabacher typefaces were a style of blackletter typefaces which evolved from Gothic Textualis (Textura) under the influence of Humanist type design in Italy during the 15th century. Schwabacher typesetting was the most common typeface in Germany, until it was replaced by Fraktur from the mid 16th century onwards. In the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, Fraktur gave way in turn to Antiqua.

Martin Waddell

Martin Waddell is a writer of children's books from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He may be known best for his picture book texts featuring anthropomorphic animals, especially the Little Bear series illustrated by Barbara Firth.

Martine Duprez

This page lists the rosters, by season, of the UCI Women's Team, Lotto–Soudal Ladies.

Martine Leavitt

Canadian American writer and writing teacher

Martine Murray

Australian writer

Marty Crisp

Jarrad Kritzstein, also known as Jarrad K, is an American record producer, songwriter, filmmaker and actor. He is known for co-writing/producing Ruston Kelly's debut album Dying Star and Elohim's self-titled album.

Marvin Barrett

American writer

Mary Ann Hoberman

writer

Mary Ann McDonald

photographer

Mary Batten

American writer of science books for children and adults

Mary Borsky

Borský Mikuláš is a large village and municipality in Senica District in the Trnava Region of western Slovakia.

Mary C. Ryan

American poet

Mary Calhoun

American children's author (1926–2015)

Mary Downing Hahn

American children's writer

Mary Engelbreit

Mary Engelbreit is an artist whose illustrations have been printed in books, cards and calendars.

Mary Francis Shura

US writer (1923-1991)

Mary Fraser

British freelance journalist (–1940)

Mary Higgins Clark

American author of suspense novels (1927–2020)

Mary Hoffman

British writer

Mary James

scientist

Mary Jane Auch

writer

Mary Lawler

Mary Lawler was an American speed skater. She competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Mary Logue

US author (1952- )

Mary Lyn Ray

American children's writer

Mary Mapes Dodge

American children's writer (1831-1905)

Mary Murphy

children's author and illustrator

Mary Norton

English children's writer (1903-1992)

Mary O'Hara

Mary O'Hara is an Irish soprano and harpist from County Sligo. She gained attention on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her recordings of that period influenced a generation of Irish female singers who credit O'Hara with influencing their style, among them Carmel Quinn, Mary Black and Moya Brennan. In his autobiography Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour (2002), Liam Clancy wrote how her music inspired and influenced him and others of the folk revival period.

Mary Pope Osborne

American children's writer

Mary Q. Steele

American writer and naturalist (1922-1992)

Mary Reid

Irish socialist and poet

Mary Rodgers

Mary Rodgers was an American composer, screenwriter, and author. She wrote the 1972 novel Freaky Friday, which served as the basis of a 1976 film starring Jodie Foster, for which she wrote the screenplay, as well as three other versions. Her best-known musicals were Once Upon a Mattress and The Mad Show, and she contributed songs to Marlo Thomas' successful 1972 children's album Free to Be... You and Me.

Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary Stolz

Mary Stolz was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults. She received the 1953 Child Study Association of America's Children's Book Award for In a Mirror, Newbery Honors in 1962 for Belling the Tiger and 1966 for The Noonday Friends, and her entire body of work was awarded the George G. Stone Recognition of Merit in 1982.

Matt Christopher

American children's writer (1917-1997)

Matt Novak

American children's book author and illustrator

Matt Phelan

American author

Matt Tavares

American illustrator and writer of children's picture books

Matthew Skelton

Anglo-Canadian author

Maud Hart Lovelace

Maud Hart Lovelace was an American writer best known for the Betsy-Tacy series.

Maureen Daly

Maureen Daly was an Irish-born American writer who wrote the 1942 novel Seventeenth Summer while still in her teens. Originally marketed for adults, it described a contemporary teenage romance and drew a large teenage audience. It is regarded by some as the first young adult novel, and the market niche of young adult literature was not developed until the 1960s, more than 20 years later. At age 16, Daly also wrote the award-winning short story "Sixteen", which appeared in many anthologies.

Maureen Johnson

American author

Maurice Gee

Maurice Gough Gee was a New Zealand novelist. He was one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and having won numerous awards both in New Zealand and overseas, including multiple top prizes at the New Zealand Book Awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the UK, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, the Robert Burns Fellowship and a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. In 2003, he was recognised as one of New Zealand's greatest living artists across all disciplines by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, which presented him with an Icon Award.

Maurice Sendak

American illustrator and writer of children's books (1928-2012)

Mavis Jukes

American children's writer

Maxine Rose Schur

Hannah Szenes was a Jewish, Hungarian-born poet, playwright, and resistance operative trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). In 1944, she was one of 37 Jewish volunteers from Mandatory Palestine parachuted into occupied Europe to support Allied efforts and help rescue Jews facing extermination.

Maxine Schur

This is a non-exhaustive list of hairstyles, excluding facial hairstyles.

Maxine Trottier

Maxine Trottier is an American-born Canadian educator and writer.

Maya Angelou

American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

Meg Cabot

Meggin Patricia Cabot is an American novelist. She has written and published over 80 novels of young adult and adult fiction and is best known for her young adult series The Princess Diaries, which was later adapted by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films. Cabot has been the recipient of numerous book awards, including the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, the American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Tennessee Volunteer State TASL Book Award, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, and the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice. She has also had number-one New York Times bestsellers, and more than 25 million copies of her books are in print across the world.

Meg Rosoff

American-British children's writer (born 1956)

Megan McDonald

Megan Jo McDonald is an American children's literature author and former librarian best known for the Judy Moody series, which has sold more than 30 million copies. McDonald has written wrote the Julie Albright series for American Girl various picture books.

Meghan McCarthy

American screenwriter

Meindert DeJong

American children's writer (1906–1991)

Meish Goldish

American children's writer

Mel Friedman

"The Cheater" is a song written by Mike Krenski, and performed by Bob Kuban and the In-Men that was released in October 1965. The band's lead singer Walter Scott received billing on the recording, which was produced by Mel Friedman. It features on their 1966 album Look Out for the Cheater.

Mélanie Watt

French-Canadian illustrator and writer of children's picture books

Melina Marchetta

Australian teen writer

Melinda Metz

American writer

Melinda Popham

"Teaching to the test" refers to an educational strategy where curriculum and instruction are heavily focused on preparing students for standardized tests. This approach aligns teaching content and methods directly with the test format and subject matter, aiming to improve student performance on these assessments.

Melissa Glenn Haber

American writer

Melissa Senate

American writer

Melissa Stewart

Melissa Stewart is an American author of children's books about science and nature and a leading researcher in the field of nonfiction literature for young people. She has published more than 200 books for children as well as several books for educators.

Melissa Sweet

American illustrator and writer of children's books

Melissa Wiley

American children's writer (pseudonym)

Melvin Burgess

British children's writer

Mem Fox

Australian academic and children's writer known for picture books

Mercer Mayer

American children's illustrator and writer

Merle Hodge

Trinidadian novelist

Mia Hamm

Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward and midfielder for the United States national team from 1987 to 2004. She competed in four editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup, winning in 1991 and 1999. She won gold at the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2004, and won silver in 2000. She was the face of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the first professional women's soccer league in the United States, where she played for the Washington Freedom from 2001 to 2003. She played college soccer for the North Carolina Tar Heels, helping the team win four NCAA Division I Championship titles. Hailed as a soccer icon, she is widely considered one of the best and most influential female players of all time.

Michael Bedard

Canadian children's writer and artist (born 1949)

Michael Bond

Thomas Michael Bond was an English author. He is best known for a series of children's books featuring the character of Paddington Bear. More than 35 million books in the series have been sold worldwide, and the characters have also appeared in several animated television series, a film series, and a stage musical.

Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres. Crichton's novels often explore human technological advancement and attempted dominance over nature, both with frequently catastrophic results; many of his works are cautionary tales, especially regarding themes of biotechnology. Several of his stories center on themes of genetic modification, hybridization, paleontology and/or zoology. Many feature medical or scientific underpinnings, reflective of his own medical background.

Michael Dahl

Michael Dahl was a Swedish painter who specialised in portrait painting and spent most of his career in England. He was one of the most internationally known Swedish painters of his time. Dahl painted portraits of aristocracy and royalty such as Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Prince George of Denmark and the exiled Christina, Queen of Sweden.

Michael Dorris

American fiction writer, essayist, memoirist (1945–1997)

Michael Friedman

American composer and lyricist (1975–2017)

Michael Garland

illustrator

Michael Grant

b. 3/6/43; columnist for San Diego union

Michael Green

actor, director (1957-2015)

Michael Hardcastle

British writer

Michael Hoeye

American writer

Michael J. Rosen

American writer (1954-)

Michael John Sullivan

Michael John Sullivan is an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 29th governor of Wyoming from 1987 to 1995, and United States ambassador to Ireland from 1998 to 2001, as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his gubernatorial tenure, he was active in local politics in Natrona County, Wyoming.

Michael Lawrence

English children's writer

Michael Martchenko

Canadian artist, illustrator of children's books

Michael Martin

British writer

Michael McGarrity

American writer

Michael Moreci

Michael Moreci is an American comic author and novelist writing in the science fiction and horror genres. His original works include critically acclaimed military horror comic series Burning Fields and space comic series Roche Limit, which was included in Paste's "Required Reading: 50 of the Best Sci-Fi Comics". Moreci has written two Star Wars-inspired space opera novels - Black Star Renegades and We Are Mayhem.

Michael Morgan

organist and Psalm scholar

Michael Morpurgo

Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.

Michael O. Tunnell

American writer, children's literature critic, professor of children's literature and teacher education

Michael Reaves

American writer and screenwriter (1950–2023)

Michael Rosen

Michael Wayne Rosen is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written more than 200 books for children and adults. Select books include We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989) and Sad Book (2004). He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. He won the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize, awarded by English PEN, for his "fearless" body of work.

Michael Ross

Mossad officer

Michael Teitelbaum

American writer, editor, and packager of children's books and magazines

Michael Williams

American writer

Michael Winerip

New York Times writer

Michaela Morgan

children's author and poet

Michaela Muntean

author

Michelle Knudsen

American writer

Michelle Magorian

English children's writer

Michelle Meadows

Tim Meadows is an American actor and comedian. He was one of the longest-running cast members on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where he appeared for 10 seasons from 1991 to 2000. For his work on SNL, he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1993. He played main character John Glascott on the ABC sitcom Schooled for its two-season run after playing the same character in a recurring role for six seasons on The Goldbergs. Meadows is also known for his role as Principal Duvall in the 2004 teen comedy film Mean Girls, a role he then reprised in Mean Girls 2 and in the film's 2024 musical adaptation.

Michelle Paver

English children's fiction writer

Mick Inkpen

author

Midori Snyder

American writer

Mike Gordon

Michael Eliot Gordon is an American bass guitarist and vocalist most recognized as a founding member of the band Phish. In addition to bass, Gordon plays banjo, piano, and guitar. He is a filmmaker and author. He has released six solo studio albums and three studio albums with acoustic guitar pioneer Leo Kottke.

Mike Lupica

American sportswriter, children's writer

Mike Reiss

Michael L. Reiss is an American television comedy writer. He served as a showrunner, writer, and producer for the animated series The Simpsons and co-created the animated series The Critic. He created and wrote the webtoon Queer Duck; he has also written screenplays including: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The Simpsons Movie and My Life in Ruins.

Mike Thaler

American writer and illustrator

Mike Venezia

Michael Joseph Venezia was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who was killed in a horse racing accident.

Mildred Ames

American writer (1919-1994)

Mildred D. Taylor

American novelist, children's and young adult writer (born 1943)

Mildred Pitts Walter

author

Miley Cyrus

Miley Ray Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. An influential figure in popular music, Cyrus is known for her evolving artistry and image reinventions. She was an established child actress before developing a successful entertainment career as an adult. Cyrus emerged as a teen idol with her portrayal of Miley Stewart in the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana (2006–2011), growing a profitable franchise and achieving two number-one soundtracks on the Billboard 200.

Milton Meltzer

Milton Meltzer was an American historian and author best known for his nonfiction books on Jewish, African-American, and American history. Since the 1950s, he was a prolific author of history books in the children's literature and young adult literature genres, having written nearly 100 books. Meltzer was an advocate for human rights, as well as an adjunct professor for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He won the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his career contribution to American children's literature in 2001. Meltzer died of esophageal cancer in 2009.

Minfong Ho

Chinese American writer

Mini Grey

British children's illustrator and writer

Mir Tamim Ansary

Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and public speaker. He is the author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, West of Kabul, East of New York, and other books concerning Afghan and Muslim history. He was previously a columnist for the encyclopedia website Encarta.

Miriam Chaikin

Miriam Chaikin was a writer of children's books and poetry and published at least 35 books during her lifetime. She often wrote about Jewish life. She was awarded the Sydney Taylor Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award.

Miriam Schlein

American writer (1926–2004)

Mirra Ginsburg

Russian American translator, reteller and writer

Miska Miles

Patricia Miles Martin was an American children's author who wrote American historical fiction, non-fiction, and biographies. She published under her own name as well as the names Miska Miles, Patricia A. Miles, and Jerry Lane. As Miska Miles, she received a Newbery Honor for her book Annie and the Old One in 1972.

Mo Willems

American children's books illustrator and writer

Moira Butterfield

(born 1960)

Mollie Hunter

Scottish children's writer (1922-2012)

Molly Aloian

Canadian children's book author

Molly Bang

American children's illustrator and writer

Molly Flender

Idle Hands is a 1999 American teen horror comedy film directed by Rodman Flender, written by Terri Hughes and Ron Milbauer, and starring Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, and Vivica A. Fox. The film's plot follows the life of an average lazy stoner teenager, Anton Tobias, whose hand becomes possessed and goes on a killing spree, even after being cut off from his arm.

Monica Hughes

Monica Hughes was an English-Canadian author of books for children and young adults, especially science fiction. She also wrote adventure and historical novels set in Canada, and the text for some children's picture books. She may be known best for the Isis trilogy of young-adult science fiction novels (1980–1982).

Monica Kulling

Canadian childrens author

Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler was a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec. He is best known for his novels set in Montreal's Jewish community; including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were nominated for the Booker Prize. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two fantasy series for children.

Mordicai Gerstein

American artist, writer, and film director

Munro Leaf

American writer and illustrator (1905–1976)

Murphy, Frank

William Francis Murphy was an American politician, lawyer, and jurist from Michigan. He was a Democrat who was named to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1940 after a political career that included serving as United States Attorney General, 35th governor of Michigan, and Mayor of Detroit. He also served as the last Governor-General of the Philippines and the first High Commissioner to the Philippines.

Myron Levoy

Myron M. Levoy was an American author of children's and young adults literature. After graduating from Purdue University he worked as a chemical engineer and was involved in the field of space engineering before becoming a full-time author.

N. Saunders

Kameron N. Saunders is an American dancer. He is known for his work in Spirited (2022), Saucy Santana's "Booty" music video (2022), The Color Purple (2023), and The Eras Tour (2023–2024).

Nadia Higgins

American children's book author

Nan Gregory

Ron Lightburn is a Canadian illustrator turned landscape painter. Lightburn started his artistic career as a visual merchandiser before he moved on to illustrations by 1984. He created seventeen book covers leading up to 1994. In 1991, Lightburn expanded his illustrative career to children's books.

Nancy Butcher

science fiction author

Nancy E. Krulik

American author

Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

American children's book author and illustrator

Nancy F. Castaldo

On April 20, 1999, twelfth-grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 13 students and one teacher in a school shooting and attempted bombing at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. Twenty people were injured by the gunfire, and three others were injured while trying to escape. The attack ended when Harris and Klebold died by suicide. The Columbine massacre was the deadliest mass shooting at a K–12 school in U.S. history until the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012. It remains among the most infamous massacres in the United States and the deadliest mass shooting in Colorado. As of June 2025, it had inspired more than 70 copycat attacks, a phenomenon dubbed the Columbine effect, and Columbine has become a byword for modern school shootings.

Nancy Farmer

American author of children's and young adult books and science fiction stories

Nancy Freedman

American writer (1920-2010)

Nancy Golden

education leader in Oregon

Nancy K. Robinson

author of children's books and narrations for documentary films (1942-1994)

Nancy L. Carlson

American illustrator and children's book author

Nancy Levinson

Nancy Levinson is an editor and writer working at the intersection of journalism, scholarship, architecture, and urbanism. She has been the editor and executive director of Places journal since 2008. She was the Founding Director of the Phoenix Urban Research Lab at The Design School at Arizona State University, and a founding editor of Harvard Design Magazine at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Nancy McArthur

Nancy McArthur was an American children's author. Living in Berea, Ohio, she was a part-time journalism professor at Baldwin-Wallace College. She wrote fourteen books, nine of which form a series called The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks. The series follows the lives of two young brothers, Michael and Norman, along with their sentient pet plants, Stanley and Fluffy. The first book in this series is the most popular book written by McArthur. She reworked this book into a play in 2000. She died on July 15, 2020, from Parkinson's disease.

Nancy Springer

American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction

Nancy Tillman

author

Nancy Werlin

American author

Nancy White Carlstrom

American children's book author

Nancy Willard

American writer

Nancy Yi Fan

Nancy Yi Fan is a Chinese American author who is best known for writing a series that currently consists of the novels Swordbird, Sword Quest, and Sword Mountain.

Naomi Shihab Nye

American writer (born 1952)

Natalie Babbitt

American children's writer and illustrator (1932–2016)

Natalie Savage Carlson

Natalie Savage Carlson was an American writer of children's books. For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer, she was United States nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1966.

Natasha Friend

American writer

Nathaniel Benchley

American author (1915–1981)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.

Neal Shusterman

American novelist

Ned Vizzini

American writer (1981–2013)

Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, audio theatre, and screenplays. His works include the comic series The Sandman (1989–1996) and the novels Good Omens (1990), Stardust (1999), American Gods (2001), Coraline (2002), Anansi Boys (2005), The Graveyard Book (2008) and The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013). He co-created the TV adaptations of Good Omens and The Sandman.

Neil Morris

Neil Anthony Morris is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker in the Football League for York City and Doncaster Rovers, and in non-League football for Worksop Town.

Neta Jackson

American writer

Nic Bishop

Nicholas Bishop, commonly credited as Nic Bishop, is an English-born Australian actor. He is best known for his television roles as Detective Peter Baker on the soap opera Home and Away (2004–07) and as Peter Dunlop on the ABC medical drama Body of Proof (2011–2012).

Nicholas Rowe

English poet, writer (1674-1718)

Nicholasa Mohr

American writer of Puerto Rican descent

Nick Arnold

British writer

Nick Bruel

American author and illustrator of children's books

Nick Butterworth

Nick Butterworth is a British author and illustrator of children's books. His picture book The Whisperer won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2005.

Nick Cook

British writer

Nick Ward

writer/illustrator

Nicola Davies

British zoologist and writer

Niki Daly

South African writer

Nikki Giovanni

American poet, writer and activist

Nikki Grimes

Nikki Grimes is an American author of books written for children and young adults, as well as a poet and journalist.

Nina Bawden

English novelist (1925-2012)

Noel Streatfeild

Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series. Random House, the U.S. publisher of the 1936 novel Ballet Shoes (1936), published some of Streatfeild's subsequent children's books using the word "Shoes" in their titles, to capitalise on the popularity of Ballet Shoes; thus Circus Shoes, Party Shoes, Skating Shoes and many more. She won the third annual Carnegie Medal for The Circus Is Coming.

Nonny Hogrogian

Armenian-American illustrator and writer (1932–2024)

Norma Fox Mazer

Norma Fox Mazer was an American author and teacher, best known for her books for children and young adults. Her novels featured credible young characters confronting difficult situations such as family separation and death.

Norman Bridwell

American author (1928-2014)

Norman Pearl

Norman... Is That You? is a 1976 American comedy film directed by George Schlatter and starring Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey. It is based on the play Norman, Is That You? The film version changes the locale from New York City to Los Angeles and substitutes the Jewish family from the original play with an African American one.

Norton Juster

American children's writer, academic, and architect (1929-2021)

Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange was an American playwright and poet. As a Black feminist, she addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work. She is best known for her Obie Award–winning play, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1975). She also penned novels including Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Liliane (1994), and Betsey Brown (1985), about an African-American girl run away from home.

Nurit Karlin

Nurit Karlin was an Israeli cartoonist, known for her cartoons in The New Yorker.

O. Henry

American short story writer (1862–1910)

Obert Skye

Robert Farrell Smith is an American humor writer. Starting in 2005, he publishes children's books under the pseudonym Obert Skye. He is known for the Leven Thumps series, the Pillage trilogy, and The Creature from My Closet series. He is also the author of Witherwood Reform School and Beyond Foo series.

Odds Bodkin

American storyteller

Odo Hirsch

Australian writer

Oliver Jeffers

British writer and illustrator

Olivier Dunrea

American creator

Orpheus Collar

Richard Russell Riordan Jr. is an American author, best known for his Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, which includes the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Heroes of Olympus series, The Trials of Apollo series, and The Nico di Angelo Adventures series. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million copies in the United States. 20th Century Fox adapted the first two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a film series, which Riordan was not involved with. Riordan currently serves as a co-creator and an executive producer on the television series adaption of his Percy Jackson series that was released on Disney+ in 2023 and for which he won two Emmy Awards. Riordan's books have also spawned other related media, such as graphic novels and short story collections.

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)

Ossie Davis

American actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist (1917-2005)

Otto Friedrich

American journalist, writer and historian (1929-1995)

Ouida Sebestyen

American novelist

P. D. Eastman

Philip Dey Eastman was an American screenwriter, children's author, and illustrator.

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)

Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Irish Literary Revival.

Pam Conrad

Pam Conrad was an American children's writer. Her book Our House: Stories of Levittown was a Newbery Medal finalist. Her book Stonewords won an Edgar Award.

Pam Muñoz Ryan

American writer

Pam Muñoz Ryan

American writer

Pamela Duncan Edwards

Pamela Duncan Edwards is a British born children's author who now lives in the US. She has published over forty picture books for children, both in America and Britain.

Pamela F. Service

US author of fantasy and science fiction (1945- )

Pat Cummings

Pat Cummings was an American professional basketball player.

Pat Hutchins

Patricia Evelyn Hutchins was an English illustrator, writer of children's books, and broadcaster. She won the 1974 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for her book The Wind Blew. On screen, she was best known as 'Loopy-Lobes' the second owner of the "Ragdoll boat" in the long-running children's series Rosie and Jim.

Pat Mora

Mexican American poet, children's writer

Patrice Kindl

American writer

Patricia Clapp

American writer (1912-2003)

Patricia Finney

Patricia Finney is an English author and journalist with Hungarian forebears. She is a graduate of Oxford University with a degree in History. She has written under the pen names "P. F. Chisholm" and "Grace Cavendish".

Patricia Grossman

American novelist

Patricia Hermes

author (1936-2018)

Patricia Lauber

American author

Patricia Lee Gauch

American writer

Patricia Macdonald

American author of crime fiction

Patricia McCormick

American journalist and children's writer

Patricia McKissack

American children's writer

Patricia Polacco

American children's writer and illustrator

Patricia Reilly Giff

American children's writer

Patricia Willis

American writer

Patrick Carman

American writer

Patrick Cave

British writer

Patrick Jennings

American children's writer

Patrick Merrick

Merrick Brian Garland is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the 86th United States attorney general from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021. In 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court; however, the U.S. Senate refused to hold a confirmation hearing.

Patrick Skene Catling

Patrick Skene Catling was a British journalist, author and book reviewer, best known for writing The Chocolate Touch in 1952. He wrote 12 novels, three works of non-fiction and nine books for children.

Paul Fleischman

Paul Fleischman is an American writer of children's books. He and his father Sid Fleischman have both won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". For the body of his work he was the United States author nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2012.

Paul Galdone

American creator of children's picture books (1907–1986)

Paul Goble

American writer and illustrator (1933–2017)

Paul Howard

Irish journalist and author

Paul Hutchens

American writer (1902–1977)

Paul Kropp

Paul Stephen Kropp was an American-born Canadian author, publisher and educator.

Paul Kupperberg

American comic writer

Paul O. Zelinsky

American children's illustrator and writer

Paul Rogers

American novelist

Paul Stewart

British writer of children's books

Paul Volponi

writer

Paul Yee

Paul Yee is a Chinese-Canadian historian and writer. He is the author of many books for children, including Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter, The Curses of Third Uncle, Dead Man's Gold, and Ghost Train—winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for English language children's literature. In 2012, the Writers' Trust of Canada awarded Paul Yee the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People in recognition of having "contributed uniquely and powerfully to our literary landscape over a writing career that spans almost 30 years".

Paul Zindel

Paul Zindel Jr. was an American playwright, young adult novelist, and educator.

Paula Danziger

American children's writer (1944–2004)

Paula Fox

American book author (1923–2017)

Paulette Bourgeois

Canadian writer

Pauline Cartwright

New Zealand writer of novels, picture books, stories and poems for children

Pearl S. Buck

American writer (1892–1973)

Peg Kehret

American children's writer

Peggy Fortnum

Margaret Emily Noel Fortnum was an English illustrator, best known for illustrating the children's literature series Paddington Bear.

Peggy Parish

Margaret Cecile "Peggy" Parish was an American writer known best for the children's book series and fictional character Amelia Bedelia. Parish was born in Manning, South Carolina, attended the University of South Carolina, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She worked as a teacher in both English and creative dancing in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and in New York. She taught at the Dalton School in Manhattan for 15 years and published her first children's book while teaching third grade there. She authored over 30 books, which had sold 7 million copies at the time of her death.

Peggy Rathmann

American children's illustrator and writer

Peggy Thomson

The Star-Spangled Banner, or the Great Garrison Flag, was the garrison flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor during the naval portion of the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812. It is on exhibit at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Seeing the flag flying over Fort McHenry on the morning of September 14, 1814, after the battle ended, Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry". These words were written by Key and set to the tune of "To Anacreon in Heaven", a popular song at the time, by John Stafford Smith. In 1931, the song became the national anthem of the United States.

Peni R. Griffin

US author (1961- )

Penny Dale

British children's illustrator and writer

Pete Hautman

American children's writer

Peter Benchley

American author (1940–2006)

Peter Brown

American illustrator (born 1979)

Peter Burchard

American writer and illustrator, historian and creator of children's books (1921–2004)

Peter Cameron

American novelist and short story writer

Peter Delacorte

US author (1943- )

Peter Dickinson

English children's writer (1927–2015)

Peter Gray

British writer

Peter H. Reynolds

American businessman, writer

Peter Lerangis

American writer

Peter Parnall

Peter Kommer Parnall was an American artist and writer, best known for his work on books for younger readers. His work earned him high praise and a number of awards. Some of his books have become collector items.

Peter Parnell

American writer

Peter Sís

Czech-born American writer and illustrator (born 1949)

Peter Spier

Dutch-American writer and illustrator (1927-2017)

Petra Mathers

American children's author and illustrator (1945–2024)

Petrus Borel

French writer of the Romantic movement (1809-1859)

Phil Bildner

Phil Bildner is an American author of children's books.

Philana Marie Boles

Philana Marie Boles is the author of the young adult novels Glitz and Little Divas, as well as the adult novels Blame It On Eve and In the Paint.

Philip Ardagh

British children's writer

Philip Pullman

Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.

Philip Reeve

English children's writer and illustrator

Philip Steele

Philip Nicholas Steele is an English author, chiefly of children's non-fiction.

Philippa Pearce

English children's writer (1920–2006)

Phoebe Dunn

American photographer (1915–1990)

Phoebe Gilman

Canadian-American children's book author and illustrator (1940-2002)

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

American children's writer

Phyllis Root

American creator

Phyllis Shalant

American writer

Phyllis W. Grimm

Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. The protagonist is a young girl living in unfortunate circumstances who is suddenly blessed with remarkable fortune, ultimately ascending to the throne through marriage. The earliest known version of the Cinderella story is usually considered to be the Greek story of Rhodopis, as described by the scholar Strabo sometime between 7 BC and 23 AD, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt.

Polly Dunbar

British children's illustrator and writer

Polly Horvath

author

Priscilla Cummings

American author

Pseudonymous Bosch

American novelist known for Secret book series, also known by the birth name Raphael Simon

R. Gregory Christie

American author and illustrator of album covers and books

R. L. LaFevers

author

R. L. Stine

Robert Lawrence Stine is an American novelist. He is the writer of Goosebumps, a horror fiction novel series for children which has sold over 400 million copies globally in 35 languages, becoming the second-best-selling book series in history. The series spawned a media franchise including two television series, a video game series, a comic series, and two feature films. Stine has been referred to as the "Stephen King of children's literature".

R. W. Alley

children book illustrator, b. 1955, USA

Rachel A. Koestler-Grack

American children's book author

Rachel Field

Rachel Lyman Field was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for her work Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.

Rachel Isadora

American children's illustrator and writer

Rachel Vail

Rachel Vail is an American author of children's and young adult books.

Rafe Martin

writer (1946-)

Ray Bradbury

American author and screenwriter (1920–2012)

Raymond Bial

photographer

Raymond Plante

Raymond (Ray) Plante is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member for the Merrimack 27th of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

Rebecca Caudill

American children's writer (1899-1985)

Rebecca Stead

American children's writer

Rebecca Stefoff

American children's book author

Reeve Lindbergh

American author, daughter of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Rhea Perlman

Rhea Jo Perlman is an American actress and author. She is well-known for playing head waitress Carla Tortelli in the popular sitcom Cheers (1982–1993). Over the course of 11 seasons, Perlman was nominated for 10 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress, winning four, and was nominated for a record six Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series. She has also appeared in films, including Canadian Bacon (1995), Matilda (1996), The Sessions (2012), Poms (2019) and Barbie (2023). In 2025, Perlman had a guest role in the second season of the crime mystery series Poker Face.

Rhoda Blumberg

Rhoda Blumberg was an American author of historical books for children.

Rich Wallace

American author of children's books

Richard Atwater

Richard and Florence Atwater co-authored the book Mr. Popper's Penguins, which won the 1939 Newbery Honor Award.

Richard Egielski

Richard Egielski is an American illustrator and writer who has worked on more than fifty children's picture books, eight of which he authored. He received his education at Parson's School of Design.

Richard Ford

Ford, Richard, 1974-

Richard Laymon

American writer (1947-2001)

Richard Mosher

Indian creator

Richard Peck

American young adult novelist (1934–2018)

Richard Platt

British children's writer and photographer

Richard Scariano

Anthony G. Scariano was an American judge, politician, and lawyer.

Richard Spilsbury

Richard Spilsbury; b. Oct. 8, 1963

Richard Wilbur

American poet (1921-2017)

Richard Williams

British music and sports journalist

Richie Tankersley Cusick

American writer

Rick J. Norman

Richard William Wills is an English bass guitarist. He is best known for his work with the rock band Foreigner and his associations with the Small Faces, Roxy Music, Peter Frampton, Spooky Tooth, David Gilmour, Bad Company and The Jones Gang.

Rick Riordan

American author (born 1964)

Rick Walton

American writer

Ridley Pearson

Ridley Pearson is an American author of suspense, thriller and adventure books. Several of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Rik Mayall

Richard Michael Mayall was an English comedian, actor and writer. He formed a close partnership with Adrian Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University, and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s.

Rita Golden Gelman

American writer

Rita Williams-Garcia

Rita Williams-Garcia is an American writer of novels for children and young adults. In 2010, her young adult novel Jumped was a National Book Award finalist for Young People's Literature. She won the 2011 Newbery Honor Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for her book One Crazy Summer. She won the PEN/Norma Klein Award. Her 2013 book, P.S. Be Eleven, was a Junior Literary Guild selection, a New York Times Editors Choice Book, and won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2014. In 2016 her book Gone Crazy in Alabama won the Coretta Scott King Award. In 2017, her book Clayton Byrd Goes Underground was a finalist for the National Book Award for young people's literature.

Roald Dahl

British writer and poet (1916–1990)

Rob Arego

Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Established in 1937 by the German Labour Front, it was revived after World War II by British Army officer Ivan Hirst and over the 81 years since grew into the global brand it is today. As of 2025, the company had a market capitalization of approximately US$58.9 billion. The company is well known for the Beetle and serves as the flagship marque of the Volkswagen Group, which was the world's largest automotive manufacturer by global sales in 2016 and 2017.

Rob Buyea

American children's fiction writer

Robb White

American children's writer (1909-1990)

Robert B. Sherman

American songwriter (1925–2012)

Robert Burleigh

American writer and visual artist (1936-2026)

Robert Byrd

Robert Carlyle Byrd was an American politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A Democrat, Byrd also served as a U.S. representative for six years, from 1953 until 1959. He remains the longest-serving U.S. senator in history; he was the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress until surpassed by Representative John Dingell of Michigan. Byrd is the only West Virginian to have served in both chambers of the West Virginia legislature and in both chambers of Congress.

Robert C. O'Brien

American novelist and journalist (pseudonym)

Robert Coles

American psychiatrist

Robert Cormier

Robert Edmund Cormier was an American writer and journalist, known for his deeply pessimistic novels, many of which were written for young adults. Recurring themes include abuse, mental illness, violence, revenge, betrayal, and conspiracy. In most of his novels, the protagonists do not win.

Robert Crais

Robert Crais is an American author of detective fiction and former screenwriter. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. His writing is influenced by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker and John Steinbeck. Crais has won numerous awards for his crime novels. Lee Child has cited him in interviews as one of his favourite American crime writers. The novels of Robert Crais have been published in 62 countries and are bestsellers around the world. Robert Crais received the Ross Macdonald Literary Award in 2006 and was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2014.

Robert Fulghum

American writer

Robert J. Harris

British writer (born 1955)

Robert Jakoubek

Utraquism, also called Calixtinism, was a belief amongst Hussites, a pre-Protestant reformist Christian movement in fifteenth century Bohemia that communion under both kinds should be administered to the laity during the celebration of the Eucharist. Communion in both kinds was a principal dogma of the Hussites and one of the Four Articles of Prague.

Robert Kalan

Donald Crews is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. In 2015, the American Library Association (ALA) honored him with the Children's Literature Legacy Award, recognizing his lasting contribution to children's literature.

Robert Kimmel Smith

American children's writer (1930–2020)

Robert Kinerk

American writer

Robert Kraus

Robert Kraus was an American children's author illustrator, cartoonist and publisher. His successful career began early at the New Yorker Magazine, producing hundreds of cartoons and nearly two dozen covers for the magazine over 15 years. Afterwards, he pivoted his career to children's literature, writing and illustrating over 100 children’s books and publishing even more as the founder of publishing house Windmill Books. His body of work is best remembered for depicting animal heroes who always try their best and never give up, which were ideals important to him at an early age.

Robert Lawrence Stine

Robert Lawrence Stine is an American novelist. He is the writer of Goosebumps, a horror fiction novel series for children which has sold over 400 million copies globally in 35 languages, becoming the second-best-selling book series in history. The series spawned a media franchise including two television series, a video game series, a comic series, and two feature films. Stine has been referred to as the "Stephen King of children's literature".

Robert Lawson

American Theatre Artist and Screenwriter

Robert Lipsyte

American sports journalist, novelist (1938-)

Robert Lopshire

American writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)

Robert McCloskey

children's book author and illustrator from the United States (1914-2003)

Robert N. Munsch

Canadian children's writer (born U.S.)

Robert Newton Peck

American children's writer

Robert O'Connor

American writer

Robert Quackenbush

American writer (1929–2021)

Robert Silverberg

American speculative fiction writer and editor (born 1935)

Robert Smith

Scottish museum curator

Robert Sullivan

Māori poet, academic and editor

Robert Venditti

Comic writer

Robert Westall

Robert Atkinson Westall was an English author and teacher known for fiction aimed at children and young people. Some of the latter cover complex, dark, and adult themes. He has been called "the dean of British war novelists". His first book, The Machine Gunners, won the 1975 Carnegie Medal for the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. It was named among the top ten Medal-winners at the 70th anniversary celebration in 2007. Westall also won a second Carnegie, a Smarties Prize, and the once-in-a-lifetime Guardian Prize.

Robin Jones Gunn

American writer

Robin Lim

midwife and founder of Yayasan Bumi Sehat health clinics (*1956)

Robin McKinley

American fantasy writer

Robin Moore

Robert Lowell Moore Jr. was an American writer who wrote The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy, and with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.

Robins, Joan.

Joan Rafferty Robins OBE was a British television personality and author, best known for her cookery programmes.

Roch Carrier

Roch Carrier is a Canadian novelist and author of "contes". He is among the best known Quebec writers in English Canada.

Roderick Gordon

British writer

Rodman Philbrick

American writer

Roger Duvoisin

Roger Antoine Duvoisin was a Swiss-born American writer and illustrator best known for children's picture books. He won the 1948 Caldecott Medal for picture books, and in 1968, Duvoisin was a highly commended runner-up for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's illustrators.

Roger Lancelyn Green

Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green was a British biographer and children's writer. He was an Oxford academic. He had a positive influence on his friend, C. S. Lewis, by encouraging him to publish The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Roland Smith

American author

Ron Koertge

American poet and novelist

Ron Roy

American children's fiction writer

Ronald Himler

American illustrator

Rose Schur

The American Girl series, by various authors, is a collection of novels set within toy line's fictional universe. Since its inception, American Girl has published books based on the dolls, with novels and other media to tie in with their dolls. The books follow various American girls throughout both historical eras and contemporary settings.

Rose Sobol

Bíawacheeitchish, in English Woman Chief, was a bacheeítche (chief) and warrior of the Crow people. Interested in traditionally male pursuits from an early age, she became one of the Crows' most significant leaders, joining the Council of Chiefs as the third ranking member. She attracted substantial attention from Western visitors; she may be the same person as "Pine Leaf" described by James Beckwourth, though the accuracy of this account is challenged.

Rosemary Sutcliff

English novelist (1920–1992)

Rosemary Wells

Rosemary Wells is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. She often uses animal characters to address real human issues. Some of her most well-known characters are Max & Ruby and Timothy Goes to School, both were later adapted into Canadian-animated preschool television series, the former of which aired on Nickelodeon as part of the Nick Jr. block and the latter of which aired on PBS Kids.

Roslyn Schwartz

British writer and animator

Ross Davies

Ross Davies is a Welsh rugby union player. Davies was born in the village of Trinant near Newbridge, Caerphilly.

Roy Gerrard

English author and illustrator

Ruby Bridges

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

Rukhsana Khan

Pakistani-Canadian writer and storyteller

Rumer Godden

English writer (1907-1998)

Russell Freedman

American writer (1929–2018)

Russell Hoban

Russell Conwell Hoban was an American writer. His works span many genres, including fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magical realism, poetry, and children's books. He lived in London from 1969 until his death.

Ruth Berman

American writer

Ruth Brown

British children's writer, illustrator

Ruth Heller

American writer and artist

Ruth Krauss

Ruth Ida Krauss was an American writer of children's books, including The Carrot Seed, and of theatrical poems for adult readers. Many of her books are still in print.

Ruth Sawyer

American children's writer and storyteller

Ruth Stiles Gannett

Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn was an American children's writer best known for My Father's Dragon and its two sequels—collectively sometimes called the My Father's Dragon or the Elmer and the Dragons series or trilogy.

Ruth Thomson

British children writer (1949-)

Ruth White

American children's writer (1942-2017)

Ryder Windham

American writer

S. E. Hinton

Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school. Hinton is credited with introducing the YA genre. She graduated from the University of Tulsa.

S. F. Said

S. F. Said is a British children's writer.

Sage Blackwood

author

Sally Gardner

British children's writer and illustrator

Sally Grindley

British author

Sally Hewitt

writer (1949- )

Sally M. Keehn

American children's book author

Sally M. Walker

American writer of children's nonfiction

Sally Prue

British writer

Sally Warner

Sally Warner is a writer of fiction for children and young adults and of books on creativity. She made the Lily series and Emma series for children's books. Sally Warner was born in New York City and grew up in Connecticut and California, where her family moved when she was eight years old. [1]

Sam McBratney

Irish children's author (1943-2020)

Sam Swope

American writer

Samuel Willard Crompton

A conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system. Conscience is not an elicited emotion or thought produced by associations based on immediate sensory perceptions and reflexive responses, as in sympathetic central nervous system responses. In common terms, conscience is often described as leading to feelings of remorse when a person commits an act that conflicts with their moral values. The extent to which conscience informs moral judgment before an action and whether such moral judgments are or should be based on reason has occasioned debate through much of modern history between theories of basics in ethic of human life in juxtaposition to the theories of romanticism and other reactionary movements after the end of the Middle Ages.

Sandra Markle

American writer

Sara Bullard

American writer

Sara Pennypacker

American children's writer (pseudonym)

Sarah Dessen

American writer

Sarah Ellis

Canadian children's writer

Sarah Mlynowski

novelist

Sarah Prineas

American writer

Sarah Stewart

American children's writer

Sarah Weeks

Sarah Weeks is an American writer of children's books, perhaps best known for the novel So B. It which has won several juvenile literature awards. In 2007 it won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award and William Allen White Children's Book Award.

Sarah Wilson

b 1934

Sarra Manning

British writer

Satomi Ichikawa

Japanese children's book author and illustrator

Saviour Pirotta

Maltese-born British children's writer

Scott Beck

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are an American filmmaking duo. They created the story for and co-wrote the post-apocalyptic horror film A Quiet Place (2018), and wrote and directed the supernatural thriller Nightlight (2015), the slasher film Haunt (2019), the science fiction film 65 (2023), and the psychological horror film Heretic (2024).

Scott Blumenthal

Max Blumenthal is an American journalist, author, blogger, and filmmaker. He was a writer for The Nation, AlterNet, The Daily Beast, Al Akhbar, Mondoweiss, and Media Matters for America, and has contributed to Al Jazeera English, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He has been a writing fellow of the Nation Institute. He was also a contributor to Sputnik and RT as of 2022.

Scott Ciencin

American novelist (1962–2014)

Scott Corbett

American novelist and educator, war correspondent in World War II (1913-2006)

Scott Morse

American animator

Scott O'Dell

American children's writer (1898–1989)