
Author and Illustrator Almanac
February 2013
February 1
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83
http://www.kansasheritage.org/crossingboundaries/page6e1.html
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/lhughes.htm
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/langston-hughes
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/hughes/aa_hughes_subj.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/hughes.html
Robert Gittings—1911-1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gittings
Jerry Spinelli—1941-
http://www.jerryspinelli.com
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/spinelli.html
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-spinelli-jerry.asp
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3649
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Spinelli__Jerry.html
James Preller—1961-
http://www.jamespreller.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Preller
February 2
James Joyce—1882-1941
http://www.jamesjoyce.ie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
http://www.biography.com/articles/James-Joyce-9358676
William Rose Benet—1886-1950
http://www.nhptv.org/kn/itv/mcd/wrbenet.htm
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Benet__William_Rose.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rose_Ben%C3%A9t
Rebecca Caudill—1899-1985
http://www.rcyrba.org
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/02feb/2-2caudill.html
Pura Belpre—1899-1982
http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/awards/purabelpre.htm
http://kids.nypl.org/parents/ocs_centennial_belpre.cfm
Ayn Rand—1905-1982
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rand.htm
http://www.aynrandsociety.org
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Rand.html
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
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/family/alexander/author.html
Eve Rice—1951-
http://www.jacketflap.com/eve-rice/48831
Deborah Hopkinson—1952-
http://www.deborahhopkinson.com/
http://www.mcelmeel.com/writing/hopkinson.html
http://www.kidsreads.com/features/010620-hopkinson-deborah.asp
http://www.adlit.org/authors/Hopkinson
February 3
Sidney Lanier—1842-1881
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-533
Norman Rockwell—1894-1978
http://www.nrm.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell
James Michener—1907-1997
http://www.michenermuseum.org/
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
Joan Lowery Nixon—1927-2003
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mystery/bio.htm
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/nixon.html
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-nixon-joan-lowery.asp
John C. Wallner—1945-
http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Picture_Book_of_Abraham_Lincoln.html?id=tEVthI6cc28C
February 4
Betty Friedan&@8212;1921-2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Friedan
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=62
Russell Hoban—1925-2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/books/russell-hoban-frances-author-dies-at-86.html?_r=1
http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/
Barbara Shook Hazen—1930-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/hazen.html
Pat (ricia) (Kienzle) Ross—1943-2009
February 5
Patricia Lauber—1924-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/lauber.html
Joan Elma Rahn—1929-2008
Mona Kerby—1951-
http://www.carr.org/authco/kerby.htm
David Wiesner—1957-
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/wiesner/home.html
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/professional-development/childlit/wiesner.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wiesner
http://www.davidwiesner.com/
http://www.thefishknowthesecret.com/
Mary Casanova—1957-
http://www.marycasanova.com
http://www.mcelmeel.com/writing/casanova.html
http://www.squidoo.com/marycasanova
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/aifolder/aipages/ai_c/casanova.php
February 6
Berta Hader—1891-1976
http://www.haderconnection.com
http://www.hader.pagebooks.net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_and_Elmer_Hader
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/CLRC-35.xml
Arthur Catherall—1906-1980
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Catherall
Wyatt Rainey Blassingame—1909-1985
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Rainey_Blassingame
Jerome Wexler—1923-
http://www.jacketflap.com/persondetail.asp?person=73715
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/degrum/public_html/html/research/findaids/wexler.htm
Weyman B. Jones—1928-
http://www.amazon.com/Weyman-Jones/e/B001JOYT4E/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Betsy Duffey—1953-
http://www.betsyduffey.com
February 7
Thomas More—1478-1535
http://www.constitution.org/tm/utopia.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More
Charles Dickens—1812-1870
http://dickens.fi/dickens.html
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/
http://www.dickensmuseum.com/
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/index.html
http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/
http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Dickens.html
Laura Ingalls Wilder—1867-1957
http://www.liwms.com
http://www.lauraingallswilder.com/
http://www.lauraingallswilderhome.com/
http://www.walnutgrove.org/
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/ingallswilder_l.htm
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=lauraIngallsWilder
Sinclair Lewis—1885-1951
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1930/lewis-autobio.html
http://english.illinoisstate.edu/sinclairlewis/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/slewis.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis
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
Gay Talese—1932-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Talese
Shonto Begay—1954-
http://shontogallery.com
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/beads/shonto.html
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/avery/visiting_artists/begay.shtml
February 8
Jules Verne—1828-1905
http://jv.gilead.org.il/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/verne.htm
http://www.julesverne.ca
http://www.literature.org/authors/verne-jules/
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/v/jules_verne/index.html
http://epguides.com/djk/julesverne/works.shtml
http://www.unmuseum.org/verne.htm
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Jules_Verne
Adrienne Adams—1906-2002
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58180908
Elizabeth Bishop—1911-1979
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/bishop.htm
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/elizabeth-bishop
http://projects.vassar.edu/bishop
Anne Rockwell—1934-
http://www.annerockwell.com
http://www.yourlibrary.ws/childrens_webpage/e-author22000.html
http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=12652
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/02feb/2-8rockwell.html
John Grisham—1955-
http://www.jgrisham.com
February 9
George Ade—1866-1944
http://iwp.iweb.bsu.edu/IndianaAuthors/Pages/Ade,%20George.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ade
Amy Lowell—1874-1925
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/amylowell/lowell.htm
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/435
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/amylowell
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amy-lowell
Hilda Van Stockum—1908-2006
http://www.boissevain.us/hildavanstockum.html
Brendan Behan—1923-1964
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/behan.htm
http://www.irelandseye.com/irish/people/famous/behan.shtm
Dick Gackenbach—1927-2001
http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/findaids/Gackenbach/MSS19920043.html
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/CLRC-306.xml
Alice Walker—1944-
http://alicewalkersgarden.com
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
Stephen Roos—1945-
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Stephen_Roos.htm
February 10
Charles Lamb—1775-1834-
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/l#a293
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lamb_%28writer%29
http://lamb.classicauthors.net
Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey—1861-1922
http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/dey_frederick.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Van_Rensselaer_Dey
William Allen White—1868-1944
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Allen_White
Boris Pasternak—1890-1960
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/zhivago/ei_pasternak.html
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/pasterna.htm
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1958/pasternak-bio.html
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/364
Bertolt Brecht—1898-1956
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/brecht.htm
http://pages.cs.brandeis.edu/~jamesf/goodwoman/brecht_bio.html
Elaine (E. L.) Konigsburg—1930-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/konigsburg.html
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-konigsburg-e-l.asp
http://cms.westport.k12.ct.us/cmslmc/resources/authorstudy/authors/konigsbio.htm
Frank Brandenberg—1932-
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/CLRC-1223.xml
James Rice—1934-2004
http://www.askart.com/AskART/R/james_rice/james_rice.aspx
Stephen Gammell—1943-
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/aifolder/aipages/ai_g/gammell.php
Mark Teague—1963-
http://www.rif.org/kids/readingplanet/bookzone/teague.htm
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/teague.html
Lucy Cousins—1964-
http://www.maisyfunclub.com
http://www.librarything.com/author/cousinslucy
February 11
Lydia Maria Child—1802-1880
http://wayhistsoc.home.comcast.net/~wayhistsoc/whs/Lydia_Maria_Child/lydia_maria_child.htm
Elliot Paul—1891-1958
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Paul
Philip Dunne—1908-1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Dunne_(writer)
Toshi Maruki—1912-2000
http://www.aya.or.jp/~marukimsn/english/indexE.htm
Mabel Esther Allan—1915-1998
http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/allan.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Esther_Allan
Sidney Sheldon—1917-2007
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=485
http://www.popstarsplus.com/authors_sidneysheldon.htm
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/sidneysheldon/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/obituaries/01sheldon.html
Jane Yolen—1939-
http://www.janeyolen.com/
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
February 12
Randolph Caldecott—1846-1886
http://www.randolphcaldecott.org.uk/
http://www.rcsamerica.com/
Ann Atwood—1913-1992
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://www.webenglishteacher.com/blume.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Blume.html
David Small—1945-
http://davidsmallbooks.com
Scott Turow—1949-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Turow
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/scottturow/bio.htm
Chris Conover—1950-
http://us.macmillan.com/author/chrisconover
Jacqueline Woodson—1964-
http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/woodson.html
February 13
Eleanor Farjeon—1881-1965
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/author.jsp?authorId=625&authorName=Eleanor+Farjeon
http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/farj/farj.htm
http://wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Farjeon
Georges Simenon—1903-1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Simenon
Ouida Sebestyen—1924-2007
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32285435
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/164547.Ouida_Sebestyen
http://www.answers.com/topic/ouida-sebestyen
William Mayne—1928-2010
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/intrvws/mayne.htm
Simms Taback—1932-2011
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/893153-312/caldecott_winner_simms_taback_dies.html.csp
http://www.simmstaback.com
http://www.creativeparents.com/simmsinterv.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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sleator
Janet Taylor Lisle—1947-
http://www.janettaylorlisle.com/
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-lisle-janet-taylor.asp
Judy Young—1956-
http://www.judyyoungpoetry.com/
February 14
Jamake Highwater—1942-2001
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/02feb/2-14highwtr.html
Phyllis Root—1949-
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/aifolder/aipages/ai_r/root.php
George Shannon—1952-
http://www.georgeshannon.org/
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/12712/George_Shannon/index.aspx
Paul O. Zelinsky—1953-
http://www.paulozelinsky.com/
http://nccil.org/experience/artists/zelinkskyp/index.htm
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/887466-312/slj_leadership_summit_2010_paul.html.csp
February 15
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward—1883-1959
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sax_Rohmer
Richard Chase—1904-1988
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://pbskids.org/clifford/index-brd-flash.html
Doris Orgel—1929-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Orgel
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/12557/Doris_Orgel/index.aspx
Susan Brownmiller—1935-
http://www.susanbrownmiller.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Brownmiller
Gregory McDonald—1937-2008
http://www.gregorymcdonald.com
Elaine Landau—1948-
http://www.elainelandau.com
Jan Spivey Gilchrist—1949-
http://www.balkinbuddies.com/gilchrist/
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=12132
http://members.core.com/~stallion/page1.htm
http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Gilchrist.html
Sonya Sones—1952-
http://www.sonyasones.com
February 16
Armstrong Richards—1893-1979
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._A._Richards
Elizabeth K. Cooper—1916-1992
Nancy Ekholm Burkert—1933-
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/snow83.html
http://wisckidlit.wordpress.com/burkert-nancy/
Carol Gorman—1952-
http://www.carolgorman.com/
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC612/gormanc.htm
February 17
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)—1912-2005
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Andre_Norton.htm
http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/n/norton_am.htm
Virginia Sorensen—1912-1991
http://www.ldsfilm.com/writers/Virginia_Sorensen.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Sorenson
http://eriehalloffame.com/nominees/Sorensen.asp
Robert Newton Peck—1928-
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter97/w97-04-Gerlach.html
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1097/Peck-Robert-Newton-1928.html
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/02feb/2-17peck.html
Chaim Potok—1929-2002
http://potok.lasierra.edu
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/potok.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Potok.html
Michael McCurdy—1942-
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-
http://susanbethpfeffer.blogspot.com
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=1409
February 18
Virginia Kahl—1918-2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6025-2004Nov22.html
Len Deighton—1929-
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/deighton.htm
http://www.nndb.com/people/131/000086870/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Deighton
Toni Morrison—1931-
http://www.tonimorrisonsociety.org
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-bio.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95961382
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/01/toni-morrison
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/morrison.html
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Mo-Ni/Morrison-Toni.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
Barbara Joosse—1949-
http://www.barbarajoosse.com/
February 19
Louis Slobodkin—1903-1975
http://www.slobodkin.org
Mildred Lee—1908-2003
Carson McCullers—1917-1967
Jill Krementz—1940-
http://newyorksocialdiary.com/socialdiary/2005/01_13_05/socialdiary01_13_05.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Krementz
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/02feb/2-19krementz.html
Amy Tan—1952-
http://www.amytan.net
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/amytan/
http://www.barclayagency.com/tan.html
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tan0int-1
February 20
William MacKellar—1914-
Rosemary Harris—1923-
http://www.rosemaryharris.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Harris_%28writer%29
http://farah-sf.blogspot.com/2005/02/we-are-all-doomed-rosemary-harris.html
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/rosemary-harris/
Mary Christian Blount—1933-
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/series/juv/author.cfm?id=499
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/3593.html
February 21
Wystan Hugh Auden—1907-1973
http://www.audensociety.org
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve—1933-
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A118
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/sneve_virginia_driving_hawk.php
http://www.sdcte.dsu.edu/englishnotes/summer1999/drivinghawk.htm
Patricia Hermes—1936-
http://www.patriciahermes.com
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1541
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/02feb/2-21hermes.html
http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-myamerica-author.asp
Jim Aylesworth—1943-
http://www.ayles.com/
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3463
http://bwibooks.com/articles/jim-aylesworth.php
http://www.aylesworth.net/Confidence_family_DWT_CSS/ff_jim.htm
Ruthanne L. McCunn—1946-
February 22
Edna St. Vincent Millay—1892-1950
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/160
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/millay.htm
http://college.cengage.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/millay.html
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/millay.html
Roma Gans—1894-1996
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/13/nyregion/dr-roma-gans-102-theorist-on-teaching-children-to-read.html
http://www.tcrecord.org/AuthorDisplay.asp?aid=15860
Peter Cheney—1896-1951
http://www.petercheyney.co.uk/Cheyney%20Site/life.html
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/cheyney.html
Harry Kullman—1919-1982
http://www.answers.com/topic/harry-kullman
Edward Gorey—1925-2000
http://www.goreyography.com/west/west.htm
http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/gorey.html
Edward D. Hoch—1930-2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_D._Hoch
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/arts/24hoch.html
February 23
W. E. B. Du Bois—1868-1963
http://www.webdubois.org
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_dubois.html
http://www.biography.com/articles/W.E.B.-Du-Bois-9279924
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760860.html
http://www.bookrags.com/W.E.B._DuBois
Erich Kästner—1899-1974
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kastner.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_K%C3%A4stner
C. S. Adler—1931-
http://www.c-s-adler.com
Laura Geringer—1948-
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1859/Geringer-Laura.html
Walter Wick—1953-
http://www.walterwick.com/
February 24
Wilhelm Grimm—1786-1863
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wgrimm.htm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/index2.html
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html
http://www.grimmfairytales.com/en/bio
Grant Allen—1848-1899
http://www.grantallen.org
https://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfj62zqb_20cfsvg4
George Moore—1852-1933
http://www.noumenal.com/marc/moore/
Mary Ellen Chase—1887-1973
http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/smitharchives/manosca44.html
http://www.enotes.com/twentieth-century-criticism/chase-mary-ellen
Uri Orlev—1931-
http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=192
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/o/uri-orlev/
Matthew Holm—1974-
http://www.matthewholm.net/
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=62265
February 25
Helen Brodie Bannerman—1862-1946
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=163505
Frank Bonham—1914-1988
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/frank-bonham/
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/frank-bonham-aya/
Anthony Burgess—1917-1993
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/burgess.htm
http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/burgess.html
John Wainwright—1921-1995
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wainwright_(author)
Cynthia Voigt—1942-
http://www.cynthiavoigt.com
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/voigt.html
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/k6/voigt.html
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3703
True Kelley—1946-
http://www.truekelley.com
Iain Lawrence—1955-
http://iainlawrence.com
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-lawrence-iain.asp
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=711
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/iainlawrence/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Lawrence
February 26
Hugh Wiley—1884-1968
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Wiley%2C%20Hugh%2C%201884-1968
Miriam Young—1913-1989
http://www.logan.com/loganberry/most-young.html
http://www.purplehousepress.com/suzy.htm
Jack Ritchie—1922-1983
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ritchie
Bernard Wolf—1930-2007
Judith St. George—1931-
http://www.judithstgeorge.com
Colby Rodowsky—1932-
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1888/Rodowsky-Colby-1932.html
http://www.childrenslit.com/childrenslit/mai_rodowsky_colby.html
Sharon Bell Mathis—1937-
http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/02feb/2-26mathis.html
February 27
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
John Steinbeck—1902-1969
http://www.steinbeck.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/steinbeck-bio.html
James Thomas Farrell—1904-1979
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Farrell
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
Peter De Vries—1910-1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_De_Vries
Lawrence Durrell—1912-1990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Durrell
Irwin Shaw—1913-1984
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ishaw.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Shaw
Florence Parry Heide—1919-2011
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Heide__Florence_Parry.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Parry_Heide
http://www.candlewick.com/authill.asp?b=author&m=bio&id=1939&pix=n
Mary Frances Shura Craig—1923-1991
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/15/obituaries/mary-francis-shura-craig-mystery-writer-67.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Francis_Craig
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/mary-francis-shura/
Uri Shulevitz—1935-
http://www.parents-choice.org/full_abstract.cfm?art_id=39&the_page=reading_list
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1958/Shulevitz-Uri-1935.html
http://childrensbookalmanac.com/2010/12/uri-shulevitz/
Mary Kay Kroeger—1950-
February 28
John Tenniel—1820-1914
http://www.johntenniel.com
http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alice1f.html
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/tenniel_sir_john.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/tenniel/
Ben Hecht—1894-1964
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bhecht.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hecht
Dee Brown—1908-2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Brown_%28writer%29
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/
February 29
Harry Milgrom—1912-1978
David R. Collins—1940-
Susan L. Roth—1944-
http://www.susanlroth.com
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/roth.html
Patricia McKillip—1948-
http://www.patriciamckillip.com
http://www.sff.net/odyssey/mckillip.html
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/patricia-a-mckillip/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_A._McKillip




