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Authors, listed in alphabetical order
A
- Achebe, Chinua
- Adams, Richard
- Agassi, Martine
- Agee, James
- Agee, Jon
- Albert, Melissa
- Alexander, Kwame
- Alexie, Sherman
- Alexovich, Aaron
- Amis, Kingsley
- Anderson, Laurie.Halse
- Anderson, M.T.
- Angelou, Maya
- Angleberger, Tom
- Ann, Mary
- Applegate, Katherine
- Archambault, John
- Arden, Katherine
- Armentrout, Jennifer.L.
- Armstrong, Jennifer
- Arnold, David
- Atkins, Jeannine
- Atta, Dean
- Atwater, Richard
- Atwood, Margaret
- Auchincloss, Louis
- Aveyard, Victoria
- Avi
- Azuela, Mariano
B
- Babbitt, Natalie
- Bachmann, Stefan
- Bacigalupi, Paolo
- Badger, Darcie.Little
- Baker, Keith
- Baldwin, James
- Balkan, Gabrielle
- Barnes, Derrick
- Barnett, Mac
- Barnhill, Kelly
- Barrows, Annie
- Bauer, Joan
- Baum, L.Frank
- Bayron, Kalynn
- Beatty, Robert
- Beaty, Andrea
- Becker, Harmony
- Beecher, Harriet
- Bellow, Saul
- Benioff, David
- Benjamin, Ali
- Bernstein, Carl
- Bird, Betsy
- Birdsall, Jeane
- Birney, Betty
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Blabey, Aaron
- Black, Holly
- Blackall, Sophie
- Blum, Isaac
- Blume, Judy
- Bond, Michael
- Bonsall, Crosby
- Boulley, Angeline
- Bovalino, Tori
- Bow, Erin
- Bowen, Natasha
- Bowles, David
- Boynton, Sandra
- Breed-Wrisley, Kira
- Brockington, Drew
- Brosgol, Vera
- Brown, Alex
- Brown, Dee
- Brown, Jeff
- Brown, Peter
- Bruel, Nick
- Bryant, Jen
- Bryson, Bill
- Buffini, Moira
- Byers, Grace
C
- Callender, Kacen
- Camus, Albert
- Capote, Truman
- Carle, Eric
- Carroll, Lewis
- Castillo, Lauren
- Cather, Willa
- Catling, Patrick
- Cawthon, Scott
- Cerilli, Matteo.L
- Chainani, Soman
- Chandler, Gertrude
- Chandler, Raymond
- Cherry, Lynne
- Chevalier, Tracy
- Chmakova, Svetlana
- Christmas, Johnnie
- Christopher, Lucy
- Chung, Christine.D.U.
- Clanton, Ben
- Clarke, Arthur
- Clayton, Dhonielle
- Cleary, Beverly
- Cleaver, Bill
- Cleaver, Vera
- Clements, Andrew
- Cline, Ernest
- Cohen, Miriam
- Colbert, Brandy
- Cole, Lo
- Colfer, Chris
- Colfer, Eoin
- Collins, Suzanne
- Conan, Arthur
- Conrad, Joseph
- Cooper, Susan
- Cordell, Matthew
- Cornwall, Gaia
- Craft, Jerry
- Craighead, Jean
- Crane, Stephen
- Creech, Sharon
- Crenshaw, Ellen.T
- Cronin, Doreen
- Curato, Mike
D
- Dahl, Roald
- Dallas, Sandra
- Daly, Niki
- Danziger, Paula
- Darwin, Charles
- Dashner, James
- dAulaire, Ingri
- David, Henry
- Davies, Jacqueline
- Davies, Nicola
- Day, Christine
- Daywalt, Drew
- de.la.Cruz, Melissa
- de.Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
- Dean, Walter
- Defoe, Daniel
- del.Rio, Tania
- DeStefano, Lauren
- DeVilliers, Julia
- Dewdney, Anna
- Diamond, Jared
- DiCamillo, Kate
- Dickens, Charles
- Dillard, Annie
- Dillard, J.
- Dinesen, Isak
- Doctorow, Cory
- Doerr, Anthony
- Donnelly, Jennifer
- Dorleans, Marie
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Downing, Mary
- Doyle, Elizabeth
- Draper, Sharon
- Draper, Sharon.M
- Drews, CG
- Dugan, Jennifer
- Dumas, Alexandre
- Dunn, Katherine
- DuPrau, Jeanne
- Durrell, Gerald
- Dusen, Chris.Van
- Duskey, Sherri
E
F
- Fan, Eric
- Fan, Terry
- Farmer, Nancy
- Faruqi, Saadia
- Fenimore-Cooper, James
- Fipps, Lisa
- Flake, Sharon
- Fleming, Candace
- Flintham, Thomas
- Floca, Brian
- Foer, Joshua
- Forster, E.M.
- Foxfield, Kathryn
- Foxlee, Karen
- Frank, Anne
- Frank, Otto
- Frazee, Marla
- French, Jackie
- Fromental, Jean.Luc
- Frost, Robert
- Funke, Cornelia
- Furrow, Robert
G
- Gaiman, Neil
- George, Elizabeth
- George, Kallie
- Gerstein, Mordicai
- Gibbs, Stuart
- Gilbert, Kelly.Loy
- Giles, Lamar
- Giovanni, Nikki
- Gleason, Colleen
- Goldberg, Holly
- Golding, William
- Gomi, Taro
- Grabenstein, Chris
- Graff, Lisa
- Grant, Michael
- Graudin, Ryan
- Green, John
- Gregson, Marc.J
- Griffiths, Andy
- Grimes, Nikki
- Grindley, Sally
- Gutman, Dan
H
- Haddix, Margaret.Peterson
- Haftlang, Zahed
- Hale, Christy
- Hale, Shannon
- Haley, Alex
- Hammill, Elizabeth
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Hansen, Mary
- Hardinge, Frances
- Harman, Michael
- Harrison, Vashti
- Haughton, Chris
- Hawking, Stephen
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Heiligman, Deborah
- Heller, Joseph
- Helquist, Brett
- Henkes, Kevin
- Henrik, Lars
- Henry, April
- Hesse, Karen
- Higgins, Ryan.T
- Higuera, Donna.Barba
- Hill, Eric
- Hill, Lawrence
- Hinds, Gareth
- Hinton, S.E.
- Hirsch, Jeff
- Hobbs, Will
- Hodgson, Frances
- Homer
- Hood, Ann
- Hoose, Philip
- Hopkinson, Deborah
- Hopson, Nasuġraq.Rainey
- Howard, Chris
- Hugo, Victor
- Hutchinson, Shaun.David
- Huxley, Aldous
J
K
- Kadohata, Cynthia
- Kang, Han
- Katouh, Zoulfa
- Kaufman, Amie
- Keller, Tae
- Kelly, Erin.Entrada
- Kelly, Jacqueline
- Kemp, Laekan.Zea
- Kendi, Ibram.X
- Kerouac, Jack
- Kerr, Esme
- Kesey, Ken
- Kessler, Liz
- Keyes, Daniel
- Kibuishi, Kazu
- King, A.S.
- King, S.J
- King, Stephen
- King-Smith, Dick
- Kinney, Jeff
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Kitamura, Satoshi
- Kladstrup, Kristin
- Klassen, Jon
- Knowles, John
- Konigsburg, E.L
- Krumwiede, Lana
- Kushner, Tony
L
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- La, Ryan
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Lai, Thanhha
- Lake, Nick
- Landy, Derek
- Lang, Suzanne
- Larkin, Philip
- Larocca, Rajani
- LaRochelle, David
- Larson, Hope
- Layton, Neal
- Lee, Harper
- Lee, Yoon.Ha
- Leonard, M.G.
- Levine, Ellen
- Levithan, David
- Lewis, CS
- Lewis, John
- Leyh, Kat
- Lies, Brian
- Lindgren, Astrid
- Lindstrom, Carole
- Lloyd, Christopher
- Lo, Malinda
- Lobel, Arnold
- Lockhart, E.
- Lockington, Mariama.J
- Lockwood, Vicki
- Logue, Mary
- London, Jack
- Loney, Andrea
- Look, Lenore
- Lore, Pittacus
- Love, Jessica
- Lowry, Lois
- Lu, Marie
- Lukoff, Kyle
- Lunge-Larsen, Lise
- Lynn, Jennifer
- Lysiak, Hilde
- Lê, Minh
M
- Mafi, Tahereh
- Mann, George
- March, William
- Maria, Erich
- Marney, Ellie
- Martel, Yann
- Martin, Bill
- Martin, Laura
- Martinez, Victor
- Martín, Pedro
- Mattick, Lindsay
- Mayer, Mercer
- McCarthy, Cormac
- McCloskey, Robert
- McCormick, Patricia
- Mccormick, Scott
- McCourt, Frank
- McCranie, Stephen
- McDonald, Megan
- McGovern, Cammie
- McLemore, Anna-Marie
- McManis, Charlene.Willing
- McManus, Karen.M
- McNeil, Gretchen
- McPhail, David
- McQuiston, Casey
- Medina, Meg
- Melville, Herman
- Messner, Kate
- Meyer, Stephanie
- Meyer, Stephenie
- Mian, Zanib
- Mikaelsen, Ben
- Milford, Kate
- Miller, Arthur
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Miyakoshi, Akiko
- Miyares, Daniel
- Moore, Katrina
- Morrison, Toni
- Mosca, Julia.Finley
- Moskowitz, Circe
- Muncaster, Harriet
- Munro, Alice
- Murdock, Catherine.Gilbert
N
O
P
- Page, Robin
- Palacio, RJ
- Paolini, Christopher
- Parish, Herman
- Park, Linda.Sue
- Park, Soyoung
- Parrish, Peggy
- Paterson, Katherine
- Paton, Alan
- Patterson, James
- Paulsen, Gary
- Pearlman, Robb
- Peck, Richard
- Peet, Mal
- Penn, Audrey
- Perrault, Charles
- Petty, Dev
- Phelan, Matt
- Pierce, Lincoln
- Pike, Christopher
- Pilkey, Dav
- Pinkney, Jerry
- Piper, Watty
- Piven, Hanock
- Pizzoli, Greg
- Plath, Sylvia
- Portis, Antoinette
- Potts, Aidan
- Preston, Natasha
- Priddy, Roger
- Prineas, Sarah
- Provensen, Alice
- Pullman, Philip
R
- Raschka, Chris
- Raskin, Ellen
- Rathmann, Peggy
- Rawlings, Marjorie
- Rawls, Wilson
- Reeve, Philip
- Reid-Banks, Lynne
- Reintgen, Scott
- Rex, Adam
- Rey, Margret
- Reynolds, Jason
- Reynolds, Peter
- Rhinehart, J.D.
- Rich, Adrienne
- Riggs, Ransom
- Riley, James
- Rimmer, Kelly
- Riordan, Rick
- Rocco, John
- Rodgers, Mary
- Rodkey, Geoff
- Rogers, Andrea
- Rosen, Lev
- Roth, Philip
- Roth, Veronica
- Roux, Madeleine
- Rowell, Rainbow
- Rowling, J.K
- Rushdie, Salman
- Russo, Marisabina
- Ryan, Pam.Muñoz
S
- Sachar, Louis
- Saeed, Aisha
- Salati, Doug
- Salinger, J.D.
- Sanderson, Brandon
- Santat, Dan
- Scarry, Richard
- Schmidt, Gary
- Schotter, Roni
- Scieszka, Jon
- Scott, Jordan
- Scott.Card, Orson
- Sebold, Alice
- Seeger, Laura.Vaccaro
- Seibel, Fritz
- Selden, George
- Sendak, Maurice
- Setterington, Ken
- Seuss, Dr
- Sewell, Anna
- Sharmat, Marjorie.Weinman
- Shaw, Nancy
- Shea, Bob
- Shearer, Alex
- Sheinkin, Steve
- Shelley, Mary
- Shusterman, Neal
- Shute, Nevil
- Sidman, Joyce
- Silvera, Adam
- Silverstein, Shel
- Sima, Jessie
- Smith, Dodie
- Smith, SD
- Snicket, Lemony
- Snider, Grant
- Snyder, Laurel
- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
- Soontornvat, Christina
- Sorensen, Virginia
- Sperry, Armstrong
- Spinelli, Jerry
- Spitzer, Miriam
- Squires, Janet
- Stamper, Phil
- Stead, Rebecca
- Steinbeck, John
- Steptoe, John
- Sterer, Gideon
- Stevenson, ND
- Stevenson, Robert.Louis
- Stewart, Sarah
- Stine, R.L
- Stoker, Bram
- Stutzman, Jonathan
- Sutherland, Krystal
- Sutherland, Tui
- Swanson, Susan.Maries
- Sáenz, Benjamin.Alire
- Sís, Peter
T
V
W
- Wahl, Phoebe
- Walden, Tillie
- Walker, Alice
- Warga, Jasmine
- Warner, William
- Washington, Booker.T
- Watson, Jude
- Weatherford, Carole.Boston
- Wein, Elizabeth
- Wenzel, Brendan
- Westerfeld, Scott
- White, Andrew.Joseph
- White, EB
- White, Kiersten
- White, T.H.
- White, Trudy
- Whitman, Walt
- Whybrow, Ian
- Wiesel, Elie
- Wiesner, David
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wilder, Derick
- Willems, Mo
- Williams, Kate
- Williams, Linda
- Williams, Tennessee
- Williams, Vera.B
- Williams-Garcia, Rita
- Wiseman, Bernard
- Wisniewski, David
- Wolfe, Tom
- Wolk, Lauren
- Woodson, Jacqueline
- Woodward, Bob