Francis Scott Key—1779-1843
http://www.francisscottkey.org/
http://www.mdoe.org/keyFS.html

Herman Melville—1819-1891
http://www.online-literature.com/melville/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/melville.htm

Rose Macauley—1881-1958

Michael Martchenko—1942-
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/947/Martchenko-Michael-1942.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/michael-martchenko-children-s-author

Gail Gibbons—1944-
http://www.gailgibbons.com/

Bill Wallace—1947-
http://wallacebooks.com/index.php?pageid=2

Sheila Hamanaka—?

Holling C. Holling—1900-1973
http://www.recess.ufl.edu/transcripts/2005/0802.shtml
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=4251

James Baldwin—1924-1987
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jbaldwin.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/baldwin_j.html
http://aalbc.com/authors/james.htm

James Howe—1946-
http://www.bcplonline.org/kidspage/kids_howe.html
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collateral.jsp?id=1297_type=Contributor_typeId=3599
http://www.answers.com/topic/james-howe-children-s-author
http://www.embracingthechild.org/ajhowe.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Howe

Ernie Pyle—1900-1945
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww2Timeline/erniepyle.html

Walter van Tilburg Clark—1909-1971
http://www.library.unr.edu/friends/hallfame/clark.html
http://www.onlinenevada.org/Walter_Van_Tilburg_Clark

P. D. James—1920-
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth193
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/pdjames/abouttheauthor.html
http://pbpl.physics.ucla.edu/~yoder/mystery/james-bio.html

Leon Uris—1924-2003
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/uris.htm
http://www.litweb.net/biography/156/Leon_Uris.html

Mary Calhoun—1926-
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=11883

Steve Sanfield—1937-

Percy Bysshe Shelley—1792-1822
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/percy_bysshe_shelley/biography
http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRshelley.htm

Joyce McDonald—1946-
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-mcdonald-joyce.asp
http://www.answers.com/topic/joyce-mcdonald

Nancy White Carlstrom—1948-
http://www.nancywhitecarlstrom.com/
http://www.answers.com/topic/nancy-white-carlstrom

Laurence Anholt—1957-
http://www.anholt.co.uk/index.htm

Guy de Maupassant—1850-1893
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/maupassa.htm
http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/

Ruth Sawyer—1880-1970
http://www.britannica.com

Conrad Aiken—1889-1973
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/caiken.htm
http://www.poemhunter.com/conrad-potter-aiken/biography/

Alfred Lord Tennyson—1809-1892
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennybio.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tennyson.htm
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/tennyson.htm

Barbara Cooney—1917-2000
http://www.ortakales.com/Illustrators/Cooney.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cooney
http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/bcooney.html
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000002642,00.html
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/bcooney.htm
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2005-01/a-2005-01-29-2-1.cfm

Richard Hofstadter—1916-1970
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/richard-hofstadter/

Frank Asch—1946-
http://www.frankasch.com
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/asch.htm

Betsy Byars—1928-
http://www.betsybyars.com/
http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/byars.html
http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/authors/byars.cfm
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/byars.htm
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=3960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Byars

Garrison Keillor—1942-
http://people.mnhs.org/authors/biog_detail.cfm?PersonID=Keil480
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9361805

Colleen Salley—?-
http://www.coleensalley.com
http://www.mardigrasunmasked.com/mardigras/colorfulcharacters/Coleen_Salley.htm
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2030/Salley-Coleen.html

Sara Teasdale—1884-1933
http://www.poemhunter.com/sara-teasdale/biography/
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sara_teasdale/biography

Majorie Kinnan Rawlings—1869-1953
http://www.infoplease.com
http://www.biblio.com/authors/128/Marjorie_Kinnan_Rawlings_Biography.html

Candy Dawson Boyd—1946-

Izaak Walton—1593-1683
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/iwalton.htm
http://www.litweb.net/biography/287/Izaak_Walton.html

John Dryden—1613-1700
http://www.online-literature.com/dryden/
http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/john_dryden_001.html
http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/dryden/drydenbio.htm

P. L. Travers—1899-1996
http://www.geocities.com/merrystar3/travers.html

Seymour Simon—1931-
http://www.seymoursimon.com/digitalMedia/presentation.html
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/tnc/mtai/simon.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/askauthor/simon.html
http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/ssimon.html

Jose Aruego—1932-
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=11745

Patricia McKissack—1944-
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=20049
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/mckissack_patricia.html
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3372
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/mckissack.html
http://dept.kent.edu/VirginiaHamiltonconf/mckiss.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_C._McKissack
http://thebrownbookshelf.com/2008/02/08/patricia-c-mckissack/

Thomas Dygard—1931-1996
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/16333/Thomas_J_Dygard/index.aspx

Tony Ross—1938-
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A0284033B20nLl2CCBDF1

Don Freeman—1908-1978
http://www.sullivangoss.com/DonFreeman/

Alex Haley—1921-1992
http://www.kintehaley.org/haleybio.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ahaley.htm

George Sullivan—1927-
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838078/

Steven Kroll—1941-
http://www.stevenkrollauthor.com/

Joanna Coles—1944-
http://www.hearstcorp.com/biographies/mag_bio_editor_marieclaire.html

Sally Keehn—1947-
http://www.sallykeehn.com/

Katherine Lee Bates—1859-1929
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Bates_Katherine_Lee.html

Edith Hamilton—1867-1963
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/hamilton-e.html

Mary Roberts Rinehart—1876-1958
http://www.online-literature.com/mary-rinehart/

Mary Ann Hoberman—1930-
http://www.maryannhoberman.com/

William Goldman—1931-

Walter Dean Myers—1937-
http://www.walterdeanmyers.net/
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-myers-walterdean.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dean_Myers
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/wdmyers.html
http://dept.kent.edu/VirginiaHamiltonconf/Myersbio.htm

Frederick McKissack—1939-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/mckissack.html

Deborah Howe—1946-1978
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=13679

Tim Wynne-Jones—1948-
http://www.timwynne-jones.com/

Ann M. Martin—1955-
http://www.scholastic.com/annmartin/

Alfred Hitchcock—1899-1980
http://hitchcock.tv/bio/bio.html

Ernest Thayer—1863-1940
http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-03512.html

Alice Provensen—1918-
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/08aug/8-14aproven.html

Danielle Steel—1947-
http://www.biblio.com/authors/655/Danielle_Steel_Biography.html

Gary Larson—1950-
http://www.punoftheday.com/gary-larson.html

Sir Walter Scott—1771-1832
http://www.online-literature.com/walter_scott/
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/scott.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wscott.htm

Edith Nesbit—1858-1924
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUnesbit.htm
http://www.online-literature.com/edith-nesbit/

Edna Ferber—1885-1968
http://www.apl.org/history/ferber/edna.bio.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ferber.html

Brinton Turkle—1915-
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/08aug/8-15turkle.html

Jane Resh Thomas—1936-
http://www.janereshthomas.com/

Theresa Nelson—1948-
http://www.theresanelson.net/

T. E. Lawrence—1888-1935
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/telawren.htm

Matt Christopher—1917-1997
http://www.mattchristopher.com/
http://www.ipl.org/div/askauthor/Christopher.html

Diana Wynne Jones—1934-
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=908

Eileen Spinelli—1942-
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Spinelli__Eileen.html

Geneva Grace Stratton Porter—1863-1924
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/08aug/8-17porter.html

Myra Cohn Livingston—1926-1996
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/08aug/8-17lvngstn.html

Ariane Dewey—1937-
http://www.ariane-dewey.com

Sonia Levitin—1934-
http://www.sonialevitin.com/index2.html

Joan Carris—1938-
http://www.joancarrisbooks.com/

Paula Danziger—1944-2004
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-danziger-paula.asp
http://www.scholastic.com/titles/paula/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Danziger
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/amberbrown/aapd.html
http://www.bookpage.com/9602bp/childrens/pauladanziger.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/paula_danziger.html

Ogden Nash—1902-1971
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/673
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash
http://www.aenet.org/poems/ognash1.htm

James Gould Cozzens—1903-1978
http://www.accuracyproject.org/cbe-Cozzens,JamesGould.html

Frank McCourt—1931-
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_frank_mccourt.html

Barbara Wersba—1932-
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/barbara-wersba2-aya/

H. P. Lovecraft—1890-1937
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lovecraf.htm

Belinda Hurmence—1921-
http://www.blairpub.com/history/beforefreedom.htm

Jacqueline Susann—1921-1974
http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-082004-susann.html

Sue Alexander—1933-
http://www.sue-alexander.com/html/home.html

X. J. Kennedy—1929-
http://www.poemtree.com/Kennedy.htm

Sharon M. Draper—1948-
http://sharondraper.com/bio.asp

Arthur Yorinks—1953-
http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Arthur-Yorinks.html

Claudia Mills—1954-
http://www.claudiamills.co.uk/

Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker—1893-1967
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/parker.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dparker.htm

Ray Bradbury—1920-
http://raybradburyonline.com/biography.htm
http://www.spaceagecity.com/bradbury/bio.htm

E. Annie Proulx—1935-
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pe-Pu/Proulx-E-Annie.html

Will Hobbs—1947-
http://www.willhobbsauthor.com/meet.html

John Bianchi—?
http://www.johnbianchi.com

Edgar Lee Masters—1869-1950
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/emasters.htm
http://www.litweb.net/biography/130/Edgar%20Lee_Masters.html

Melvin Berger—1927-
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1283

Dean Hughes—1943-
http://www.deanhughes.net/

Bret Harte—1836-1902
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/18661913/lit/harte.htm
http://www.online-literature.com/bret-harte/

Walt Kelly—1913-1973
http://www.bpib.com/kelly.htm

Virginia Euwer Wolff—1937-
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/08aug/8-25wolff.html

Frederick Forsyth—1938-
http://www.biblio.com/authors/27/Frederick_Forsyth_Biography.html
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4322/Forsyth-Frederick.html

Charles Ghigna—1946-
http://www.charlesghigna.com

Amis Martin—1949-
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth7

Ian Falconer—1959-
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=968049

Lane Smith—1959-
http://www.lanesmithbooks.com/

Rachael Ray—1968-
http://www.rachaelraymag.com/about-rachael/rachael-ray-biography/article.html

Earl Derr Biggers—1884-1933
http://www.orrt.org/biggers/
http://www.answers.com/topic/earl-derr-biggers?cat=entertainment

Christopher Isherwood—1904-1986
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/isherwoo.htm
http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/isherwood.htm

Patricia Beatty—1922-1991
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/patricia-beatty-aya/

Theodore Dreiser—1871-1945
http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/dreiser/tdbio.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dreiser.htm

Lloyd C. Douglas—1877-1951
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lcdougla.htm
http://www.litweb.net/biography/352/Lloyd%20C_Douglas.html

C. S. Forester—1899-1966
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/forester.htm
http://www.litweb.net/biography/483/C%20S_Forester.html

Nora Robinson Lofts—1904-1983

Arlene Mosel—1921-1996

Suzy Kline—1943-
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/707/Kline-Suzy-1943.html

Suzanne Fisher Staples—1945-
http://www.suzannefisherstaples.com/

Sarah Stewart—?
http://www.pippinproperties.com/authill/stewart/

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe—1749-1832
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/goethe.htm
http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.210/

Roger Duvoisin—1904-1980
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Duvoisin

Roger Tory Peterson—1908-1996
http://www.rtpi.org/?page_id=62
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/peterson/rtp/biography.shtml

Tasha Tudor—1915-2008
http://www.tashatudorandfamily.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasha_tudor
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/20/america/obits.php

F. N. Monjo—1924-1978

Kevin Hawkes—1959-
http://www.kevinhawkes.com/home.htm

Brian Pinkney—1961-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/tnc/mtai/bpinkney.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/jerry-brian-pinkney

Oliver Wendell Holmes—1809-1894
http://www.2020site.org/poetry/owh.html
http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-holmes/

Joseph Jacobs—1854-1916
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/jacobs.html

Albert Lebrun—1876-1950
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9047557/Albert-Lebrun

Nathan Pritikin—1915-1985
http://www.pritikin.com/pritikin/pritikin_NathanPritikin.shtml

Karen Hesse—1952-
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312210/KarenHesse.html

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley—1797-1851
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mshelley.htm

John Gunther—1901-1970
http://www.nndb.com/people/875/000048731/

Virginia Lee Burton—1909-1968
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/mike_mulligan/biohome.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Lee_Burton
http://www.virginialeeburton.com/

Donald Crews—1938-
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=16149
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crews
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n1_v32/ai_20610477

William Saroyan—1908-1981
http://www.kalinian-saroyan.com/biography/wsaroyan_bio_engl.html
http://www.williamsaroyansociety.org/chro.html
http://www.litweb.net/biography/386/William_Saroyan.html

Dennis Lee—1939-
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/34

Deborah Kogan Ray—1940-
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1671/Kogan-Ray-Deborah-1940-Deborah-Kogan-Deborah-Ray.html