Langston Hughes—1902-1967

Robert Gittings—1911-1992

Jerry Spinelli—1941-
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/jerryspinelli/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/spinelli.html
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-spinelli-jerry.asp

James Preller—1961-
http://www.jamespreller.com/
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3515

James Joyce—1882-1941

William Rose Benet—1886-1950

Rebecca Caudill—1899-1985

Pura Belpre—1899-1982
http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/awards/purabelpre.htm
http://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us/content/booklists/sort/a/89

Ayn Rand—1905-1982

Judith Viorst—1931-
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/viorst.html
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=502
http://www.library.okstate.edu/friends/cobb/viorst.htm

Eve Rice—1951-

Deborah Hopkinson—1952-
http://www.deborahhopkinson.com/
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/clara7.html
http://www.kidsreads.com/features/010620-hopkinson-deborah.asp

Betsy Duffey—1953-
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000009601,00.html

Mary Cassanova—1957-
http://www.marycasanova.com/
http://www.mcelmeel.com/writing/casanova.html

Norman Rockwell—1894-1978
http://www.nrm.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell

James Michener—1907-1997
http://webpages.charter.net/boerad/michener.htm
http://www.michenermuseum.org/
http://www.edwardrutherford.com/us/index/item.php?i=ngt4638ab657aa54
http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp?step=2&pers_id=6230&last_name=Michener&first_name=James
http://www.unco.edu/library/archives/michenercollection.htm
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/mic0bio-1

Walt Morey—1907-1992
http://oregonmag.com/morey.htm
http://www.reynolds.k12.or.us/~morey/morey.html

Joan Lowery Nixon—1927-2003
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mystery/bio.htm
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-nixon-joan-lowery.asp http://www.webenglishteacher.com/nixon.html
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-nixon-joan-lowery.asp

John C. Wallner—1945-

Russell Hoban—1925-
http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/
http://www.davidhigham.co.uk/html/Clients/Russell_Hoban
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/hobanrus.htm
http://www.roland-collection.com/rolandcollection/literature/101/W64.htm

Barbara Shook Hazen—1930-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/hazen.html
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/hazen.htm

Pat (ricia) (Kienzle) Ross—1943-

Patricia Lauber—1924-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/lauber.html

Joan Elma Rahn—1929-

Mona Kerby—1951-
http://www.carr.org/authco/kerby.htm

David Wiesner—1957-
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/wiesner/home.html
http://www.bookpage.com/9909bp/david_wiesner.html
http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators/wiesner.mspx
http://reading.indiana.edu/ieo/bibs/wiesner.html

Berta Hader—1891-1976
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/hader.htm

Wyatt Rainey Blassingame—1909-1985

Jerome Wexler—1923-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/wexler.html

Weyman B. Jones—1928-

Betsy Duffey—1953-
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000009601,00.html

Charles Dickens—1812-1870
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
http://www.helsinki.fi/kasv/nokol/dickens.html
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/
http://www.dickensmuseum.com/
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensov.html
http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/
http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Dickens.html

Laura Ingalls Wilder—1867-1957
http://www.lauraingallswilder.com/
http://www.lauraingallswilderhome.com/
http://www.walnutgrove.org/
http://www.teachersfirst.com/winners/wilder.htm
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/ingallswilder_l.htm
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=lauraIngallsWilder
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/laurawilder.html

Fred Gipson—1908-1973
http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/gipson.html
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00045/hrc-00045.html

Shonto Begay—1954-
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/beads/shonto.html
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/avery/visiting_artists/begay.shtml

Jules Verne—1828-1905
http://www.online-literature.com/verne/
http://jv.gilead.org.il/

Adrienne Adams—1906-2002
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/adams.htm

Anne Rockwell—1934-
http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=12652
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/02feb/2-8rockwell.html

George Ade—1866-1944

Amy Lowell—1874-1925

Hilda Van Stockum—1908-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/vanstock.htm

Dick Gackenbach—1927-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/gackenba.htm

Alice Walker—1944-
http://members.tripod.com/chrisdanielle/aliceindex.html
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/walker_a.htm
http://aalbc.com/authors/alice.htm
http://www.ipoet.com/ARCHIVE/BEYOND/Walker/Alice.html
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_walker_alice.htm
http://results.about.com/alice_walker/
http://www.who2.com/alicewalker.html

Stephen Roos—1945-
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Stephen_Roos.htm

Charles Lamb—1775-1834-
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17977
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/l#a293

Boris Pasternak—1890-1960

Elaine (E. L.) Konigsburg—1930-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/konigsburg.html
http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=58

Frank Brandenberg—1932-

James Rice—1934-
http://www.pelicanpub.com/Biog.asp?artist=James%20Rice
http://www.askart.com/AskART/R/james_rice/james_rice.aspx

Stephen Gammell—1943-
http://www.bookpage.com/0006bp/stephen_gammell.html

Mark Teague—1963-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/teague.html
http://www.scholastic.com/titles/authors/teague/
http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators/teague.mspx

Lucy Cousins—1964-
http://www.maisyfunclub.com/maisyframe.asp?section=lucy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Cousins
http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/Lucy-Cousins
http://www.librarything.com/author/cousinslucy
http://www.maisyfunclub.com/

Toshi Maruki—1912-
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/17599/Toshi_Maruki/index.aspx
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Atomic/atomic.htm

Mabel Esther Allan—1915-1998
http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/allan.html

Sidney Sheldon—1917-2007
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=485
http://www.popstarsplus.com/authors_sidneysheldon.htm

Jane Yolen—1939-
http://www.janeyolen.com/
http://www.bookpage.com/9901bp/jane_yolen.html
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/jun02/yolen.htm
http://www.underdown.org/yolen.htm

Holly Keller—1942-
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/authors/experts/keller.asp
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/12302/Holly_Keller/index.aspx

Randolph Caldecott—1846-1886
http://www.randolphcaldecott.org.uk/
http://www.iupui.edu/~engwft/caldecott.htm
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/caldecot.htm
http://www.rcsamerica.com/

Ann Atwood—1913-
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/CLRC-1198.xml

Judy Blume—1938-
http://www.judyblume.com/
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-blume-judy.asp
http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/blume.html
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/womenenc/blume.html
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-blume-judy.asp
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/blume.html
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Blume.html

Hank Brown—1940-

David Small—1945-
http://www.multcolib.org/kids/exhibit/small/educatorguide.html

Chris Conover—1950-

Jacqueline Woodson—1964-
http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/woodson.html http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/conf/program/speakers/woodson.htm
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-woodson-jacqueline.asp
http://www.alri.org/pubs/woodsonlessons.html

Eleanor Farjeon—1881-1965
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/author.jsp?authorId=625&authorName=Eleanor+Farjeon
http://wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Farjeon
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/10011
http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/farj/farj.htm

Ouida Sebestyen—1924-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/sebestye.htm

William Mayne—1928-
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/intrvws/mayne.htm

Simms Taback—1932-
http://www.creativeparents.com/simmsinterv.html
http://reading.indiana.edu/ieo/bibs/taback.html
http://www.embracingthechild.org/bookspecialtaback.html

William Sleator—1945-
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/billy/
http://www.ibiblio.org/tench/sleator/
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/willsleator/
http://www.btownccs.k12.in.us/bcms/lib/authors/sleator/beasties.htm

Janet Taylor Lisle—1947-
http://www.janettaylorlisle.com/
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-lisle-janet-taylor.asp

Jamake Highwater—1942-2001
http://www.bayviews.org/baynews/news0106.html

Phyllis Root—1949-
http://www.bookjackets.com/root/root.htm

George Shannon—1952-
http://www.georgeshannon.org/
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/12712/George_Shannon/index.aspx
http://www.apl.org/fp/archives/fall96/george.html

Paul O. Zelinsky—1953-
http://www.paulozelinsky.com/
http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators/zelinsky.mspx

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward—1883-1959

Richard Chase—1904-1988
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=4350
http://cass.etsu.edu/archives/afindaid/a188.html

Norman Bridwell—1928-
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-bridwell-norman.asp
http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/flash.htm
http://www.scholastic.ca/clifford/parent/bridwellbio.htm
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG0116f.html?DG0116b

Doris Orgel—1929-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/ORGEL,D.htm

Gregory McDonald—1937-2008

Elaine Landau—1948-
http://www.elainelandau.com/home/

Jan Spivey Gilchrist—1949-
http://members.core.com/~stallion/page1.htm
http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Gilchrist.html

Sonya Sones—1952-
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-sones-sonya.asp

Elizabeth K. Cooper—1916-

Nancy Ekholm Burkert—1933-
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/snow83.html

Carol Gorman—1952-
http://www.carolgorman.com/
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC612/gormanc.htm

Dorothy Canfield Fisher—1879-1958
http://www-distance.syr.edu/pvitadcf.html
http://www.dcfaward.org/
http://www.vermonttoday.com/century/mostinflu/dcfisher.html
http://famouscreativewomen.com/one/559.htm

Alice Mary Norton (Andre Norton)—1912-
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Andre_Norton.htm

Virginia Sorensen—1912-1991

Robert Newton Peck—1928-
http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=101
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter97/w97-04-Gerlach.html

Chaim Potok—1929-2002

Michael McCurdy—1942-
http://www.michaelmccurdy.com/
http://www.bcn.net/~mmccurdy/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/mccurdy.html
http://arts.envirolink.org/visual_arts/Michael_McCurdy/bio.html
http://teachers.net/archive/mccurdy.html

Susan Beth Pfeffer—1948-

Solomon Rabinowitz (Solomon Aleichem)—1859-1916

Virginia Kahl—1918-
Len Deighton—1929-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Deighton

Toni Morrison—1931-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-bio.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/morrison.html
http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1993a.html
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/tonimorrison/p/toni_morrison.htm

Barbara Joosse—1949-
http://www.barbarajoosse.com/

Louis Slobodkin—1903-1975
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG0904f.html?DG0904b.html~mainFrame

Mildred Lee—1908-2003

Jill Krementz—1940-
http://celebrities.adoption.com/famous/jill-krementz.html

Amy Tan—1952-
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/amytan/
http://www.barclayagency.com/tan.html
http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/feature/tan.html
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tan0int-1

William MacKellar—1914-
http://www.bookfinder.com/author/william-mackellar/
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/255420.William_MacKellar

Rosemary Harris—1923-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Harris_%28writer%29
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765904/
http://farah-sf.blogspot.com/2005/02/we-are-all-doomed-rosemary-harris.html

Mary Christian Blount—1933-
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000006935,00.html
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/series/juv/author.cfm?id=499

Wystan Hugh Auden—1907-1973

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve—1933-
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/
http://www.sdcte.dsu.edu/englishnotes/summer1999/drivinghawk.htm

Patricia Hermes—1936-
http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-myamerica-author.asp

Jim Aylesworth—1943-
http://www.ayles.com/

Ruthanne L. McCunn—1946-

Roma Gans—1894-1996

Peter Cheney—1896-1951
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/cheyney.html

Harry Kullman—1919-1982

Edward Gorey—1925-2000
http://www.fearofdolls.com/gorey.html
http://www.goreyography.com/west/west.htm
http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/
http://www.bookpage.com/9811bp/edward_gorey.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/gorey.html

Edward D. Hoch—1930-2008

W. E. B. Du Bois—1868-1963
http://www.naacp.org/about/history/dubois/
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760860.html
http://www.bookrags.com/W.E.B._DuBois

Erich Kastner—1899-1974
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/kastner.html

C. S. Adler—1931-
http://usawrites4kids.drury.edu/authors/adlerc/

Laura Geringer—1948-

Walter Wick—1953-
http://www.walterwick.com/

Wilhelm Grimm—1786-1863
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wgrimm.htm
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/grimmw.html

Mary Ellen Chase—1887-1973
http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/smitharchives/manosca44.html
http://wwwa.search.eb.com/women/articles/Chase_Mary_Ellen.html
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=23021&query=mary%20calkins&ct=eb
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/maine_people/100445

Uri Orlev—1931-

Matthew Holm—?
http://www.matthewholm.net/
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=62265

Helen Brodie Bannerman—1862-1946

Frank Bonham—1914-1988
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/frank-bonham/
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/frank-bonham-aya/

Anthony Burgess—1917-1993

Cynthia Voigt—1942-
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/voigt.html
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/k6/voigt.html

True Kelley—1946-
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=684

Iain Lawrence—1955-
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-lawrence-iain.asp
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=16892
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=711
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/iainlawrence/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Lawrence

Miriam Young—1913-1989
http://www.logan.com/loganberry/most-young.html

Bernard Wolf—1930-

Judith St. George—1931-

Colby Rodowsky—1932-
http://www.childrensbookguild.org/rodowsky.htm

Sharon Bell Mathis—1937-

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—1807-1882
http://eclecticesoterica.com/longfellow.html
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/longfel/hwlindex.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/long.htm
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow/longfellow_contents.htm
http://dlstewart.com/longfellow/
http://www.online-literature.com/henry_longfellow/
http://www.nps.gov/long/
http://www.selfknowledge.com/264au.htm

Edna Barth—1900-1981
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/02feb/2-27barth.html

James Thomas Farrell—1904-1979

Eric Sloane—1905-1985
http://www.ericsloane.com/
http://www.askart.com/artist/S/eric_sloane.asp?ID=2855
http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/arts/wxquotes-sloane.htm

Irwin Shaw—1913-1984

Florence Parry Heide—1919-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Parry_Heide
http://www.candlewick.com/authill.asp?b=author&m=bio&id=1939&pix=n
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=3507

Mary Frances Shura—1923-

Uri Shulevitz—1935-
http://www.hbook.com/exhibit/shulevitzradio.html
http://www.parents-choice.org/full_abstract.cfm?art_id=39&the_page=reading_list
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG0893f.html?DG0893b.html~mainFrame

Mary Kay Kroeger—1950-

John Tenniel—1820-1914
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/tenniel_sir_john.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/tenniel/
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/illus/tenniel.html
http://30.1911encyclopedia.org/T/TE/TENNIEL_SIR_JOHN.htm

Ben Hecht—1894-1964

Dee Brown—1908-2003
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA272694
http://www.readthewest.com/interview2003-02-DeeBrown.html

Donna Jo Napoli—1948-
http://www.donnajonapoli.com/
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-napoli-donna.asp
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-napoli-donna-jo.asp

Megan McDonald—1959-
http://www.meganmcdonald.net/

Harry Milgrom—1912-

David R. Collins—1940-

Susan L. Roth—1944-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/roth.html

Patricia McKillip—1948-
http://www.evan.org/McKillip.html
http://famouscreativewomen.com/one/2027.htm
http://www.sff.net/odyssey/mckillip.html