E. M. Forster—1879-1952

J. D. Salinger—1919-
http://www.salinger.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/salinger.htm
http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_j_salinger.html
http://www.who2.com/jdsalinger.html
http://www.euronet.nl/users/los/tcitr.html

Barbara Williams—1925-
http://www.elmhurst.edu/library/courses/edu/fiene/barbarawilliams.html

Jean Ure—1943-
http://www.jeanure.com/
http://www.wordpool.co.uk/ap/ure.htm

Marilyn Hirsh—1944-1988
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/hirsh.htm
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/HirschM.html

Isaac Asimov—1920-1992
http://www.asimovonline.com/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/asimov.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/exhibits/asimov/
http://www.slawcio.com/asimov.html
http://kaedrin.com/fun/asimov/asimov.html
http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/asimov.htm
http://www.bookshopp.com/authorbios/isaacasimov.asp
http://www.matchc.com/a_authors/Isaac_Asimov.html
http://www.insite.com.br/rodrigo/text/isaac_asimov.html

Crosby Bonsall—1921-1995
http://www.crosbybonsall.com/

Jan Slepian—1921-

Jean Little—1932-
http://childrensbooks.about.com/cs/authorsillustrato/a/jeanlittle.htm
http://www.cqsb.qc.ca/svs/jlindex.htm

Ed Martinez—1954-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/martinez.html
http://www.birchwoodartgallery.com/search/artistdetail.asp?artistid=235

J. R. R. Tolkien—1892-1973
http://tolkien.cro.net/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tolkien.htm
http://www.who2.com/jrrtolkien.html
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tolksoc/TolkiensOxford/
http://www.nytimes.com/specials/advertising/movies/tolkien/index.html
http://www.spowers.net/Tolkien/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/Tolkien__J_R_R___1892_1973_/Lord_of_the_Rings/

Carolyn Haywood—1898-1990
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/haywood.htm

Joan Walsh Anglund—1926-
http://www.logan.com/loganberry/most-anglund.html

Tony Chen—1929-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/chen.htm

Patricia Lee Gauch—1934-
http://www.patriciamnewman.com/gauch.html

Alma Flor Ada—1938-
http://www.almaflorada.com/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/ada.html
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/tml/workshop7/resources2.html

J. Otto Seibold—1960-
http://www.little-lit.com/artists/seibold.html
http://www.bookpage.com/0309bp/meet_otto_siebold.html
http://www.digital-illustration.com.au/culturezone/jotto-fr.html

Chris K. Soentpiet—1970-
http://www.soentpiet.com/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/soentpiet.html
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=3185

Jacob Grimm—1785-1863
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jgrimm.htm
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/grimmj.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Grimm
http://www.biblion.com/litweb/biogs/grimm_jacob.html

Maggie Duff—1916-2003
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA297869

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor—1933-
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/askauthor/Naylor.html
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/naylor.html
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/naylor.htm
http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/pnaylor.html

Fernando Krahn—1935-
http://www.ekare.com/English/detailpopup.cfm?autor=Krahn

Robert Burleigh—1936-
http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/Burleigh.html

Etienne Delessert—1941-
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/illus/delessert.html

Celestino Piatti—1922-
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestino_Piatti

Sheila Cole—1939-
http://www.childrensliteraturecouncil.org/speakers_list.htm#cole

Carol Purdy—1943-

Betsy Maestro—1944-
http://www.author-illustr-source.com/betsyandgiuliomaestro.htm
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/maestro.html

Lynne Cherry—1952-
http://lynnecherry.com/
http://www.loe.org/series/lynne_cherry/
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/02/q1/0114-cherry.htm
http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators/cherry.mspx

Carl Sandburg—1878-1967
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sandburg
http://carl-sandburg.com/biography.htm
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/28
http://www.nps.gov/carl/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sandburg.htm
http://www.sandburg.org/
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/canam/sandburg.htm

Khalil Gibran—1883-1931

Vera Cleaver—1919-1992
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/c/Cleaver,Vera

E. L. Doctorow—1931-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._L._Doctorow
http://wiredforbooks.org/eldoctorow/
http://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/07/books/doctorow-daniel.html

Don Bolognese—1934-
http://www.thewarhorse.com/main_bio.html

Linda Williams—1948-
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/12898/Linda_Williams/index.aspx

Wendelin Van Draanen—1965-
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/dec01/vandraanen.htm
http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-keyes-author.asp
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/vandraanen/

Zora Neale Hurston—1891-1960
http://i.am/zora
http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_zora_neale_hurston.html

Eleanor Clymer—1906-2001
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/clymer.htm

Ethel Kessler—1922-

Rosekrans Hoffman—1926-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/hoffman.htm

Kay Chorao—1937-

John Warren Stewig—1937-

Minfong Ho—1951-
http://members.authorsguild.net/minfong/

Lee Ames—1921-

Nancy Bond—1945-
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/intrvws/bond.htm

Stephen Manes—1949-
http://www.forbes.com/columnists/col_archive.jhtml?aname=Stephen+Manes&author=stephen+and+manes

Floyd Cooper—1956-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/fcooper.html

Marjorie Priceman—1958-

Walter Brooks—1886-1958
http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-freddy-author.asp
http://www.freddythepig.org/
http://members.tripod.com/~jill_morgan/freddy.html

Clyde Robert Bulla—1914-
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1879
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/bulla.htm
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001651.shtml
http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=237

Remy Charlip—1929-

Sook Nyul Choi—1937-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/choi.html
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/choi.html
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr05/mtai/choi.html

Mary Peace Finlay—1942-

Christopher G. Knight—1943-

Lloyd Bloom—1947-

Robert C. O'Brien—1918-1973

Ann Tompert—1918-
http://www.boydsmillspress.com/contributors/contributors/tompert_ann.html

Berniece Rabe—1928-
http://www.berniecerabe.com/Index.html
http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/isl/ldo/childrens/r.htm

Mary Rodgers—1931-

Jim Hightower—1943-

Steven Otfinoski—1949-
http://www.literaturereview.net/72527_stevenotfinoski.html

Alice Mead—1952-
http://www.iblist.com/author6680.htm
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/alice-mead-aya/

Charles Perrault—1628-1703
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/perrault.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11701c.htm
http://www.longlongtimeago.com/llta_fairytales_writers_charlesperrault.html
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Charles-Perrault

Laura Adams Armer—1874-1963
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Palmquist/Photographers/Armer.htm

Jack London—1876-1916
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
http://www.jack-london.org/main_e.htm
http://www.parks.sonoma.net/JLStory.html
http://www.jack-london.org/
http://www.getyourwordsworth.com/WORDSWORTH-JackLondon.html
http://www.jacklondon.com/
http://www.online-literature.com/london/
http://jacklondonfdn.org/
http://www.literature.org/authors/london-jack/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jlondon.htm

Clement Hurd—1908-1988

Margaret Rostkowski—1945-

William Muñoz—1949-
http://www.agpix.com/photographer/prime/A0083050.html

D. Anne Love—1949-
http://www.dannelove.com/
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-love-d-anne.asp

David Wiseman—1916-
http://www.scifan.com/writers/ww/WisemanDavid.asp
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=1281

N. M. Bodecker—1922-1988

Kathleen Elgin—1923-

Michael Bond—1926-
http://www.paddingtonbear.co.uk/en/1/fachismbo.mxs
http://www.paddingtonbear.co.uk/
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/bond.htm

Wendy Hart Beckman—?
http://www.authorsden.com/wendyhartbeckman

Hendrik W. Van Loon—1882-1944

Hugh Lofting—1886-1947
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Lofting
http://members.tripod.com/~Puddleby/
http://selfknowledge.com/262au.htm
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Hugh_Lofting.htm

Doris Lund—1919-2003

Patricia Rhoads Mauser—1943-

Peter Asbjornsen—1812-1885
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/moe.html

Robert Silverberg—1935-
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Robert_Silverberg.htm
http://www.hycyber.com/SF/silverberg_robert.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg

Bijou Le Tord—1945-
http://bijou.letord.free.fr/Bijou%20website/

Satomi Ichikawa—1949-

Richard Jesse Watson—?
http://www.richardjessewatson.com/index1.htm
http://www.christcenteredmall.com/stores/art/watson/watsonbiography.htm
http://www.richardjessewatson.com/bio2.htm
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/18961/Richard_Jesse_Watson/index.aspx

Martha Shapp—1910-

Andrew Glass—1935-
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=711

Robert Lipsyte—1938-
http://www.carr.org/mae/lipsyte/lipsyte.htm
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/margaretaedwards/maeprevious/2001awardwinner.htm

Kate McMullan—1947-
http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-dragon_slayers-author.asp
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1695
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/
ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=12474
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=20102

Robert Cormier—1925-2000
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-cormier-robert.asp
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,393333,00.html
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-cormier-robert.asp
http://www.achuka.co.uk/special/cormier01.htm
http://www.mcdougallittell.com/disciplines/_lang_arts/authors/cormier.cfm
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/cormier.html
http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=80
http://www.wbais.org/~aislibrary/robertcormier.htm

Shari Lewis—1934-1998
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/9808/03/shari.lewis.obit/
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762699.html
http://www.grandtimes.com/lambchop.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shari_Lewis
http://entertainment.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=36893

John Bellairs—1938-1991
http://www.bellairsia.com/
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212361/authorbio.htm#jb

Janet Stevens—1953-
http://www.janetstevens.com/
http://www.scottforesman.com/families/authors/stevens.html
http://www.harcourtbooks.com/authorinterviews/bookinterview_stevens.asp

A. A. Milne—1882-1956
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3914/
http://www.msu.edu/user/steinbr1/pooh/milne.htm
http://www.just-pooh.com/milne.html
http://poohshideout.tripod.com/milne.html

Arthur Ransome—1884-1967
http://www.arthur-ransome.org/ar/
http://www.visitcumbria.com/ransome.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jransome.htm
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/author.jsp?authorId=16&authorName=Arthur+Ransome

Raymond Briggs—1934-
http://www.roland-collection.com/rolandcollection/literature/101/W50.htm
http://www.toonhound.com/briggs.htm

Grace Nichols—1950-
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/npd/nichols.htm

Catherine Anholt—1958-
http://www.powertolearn.com/ask_the_expert/expert_archive/laurence_and_catherine_anholt.shtml
http://www.orchardbooks.co.uk/lanhoob.htm

Alan Schroeder—1961-
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=27294

Edgar Allan Poe—1809-1849
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
http://www.nps.gov/edal/
http://www.eapoe.org/
http://www.poemuseum.org/

Nina Bawden—1925-
http://www.ninabawden.net/
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/bawden.htm

Corinne Gerson—1927-

Susan Dodson—1941-

Pat Mora—1942-
http://www.patmora.com/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/mora.html
http://www.leeandlow.com/booktalk/mora.html

Joy Adamson—1920-1980
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Adamson
http://www.who2.com/joyadamson.html

Helen Hoover—1910-1984
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hoover_years.html

Mary Anderson—1939-

Tedd Arnold—1949-

Carol Beach York—1928-
http://www.ereads.com/author.asp?authorid=23

Huck Scarry—1953-
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=27050
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scarry

George Gordon Byron—1788-1824

Robert E. Howard—1906-1936

Sheila Gordon—1927-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/html/research/findaids/gordonsheila.html

Blair Lent—1930-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair_Lent

Brian Wildsmith—1930-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG1215f.html?DG1215b.html~mainFrame
http://www.jubileebooks.co.uk/jubilee/magazine/authors/brian_wildsmith/wildsmith_profile.asp

Rafe Martin—1946-
http://www.rafemartin.com
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/folktale_meetrafe.htm
http://www.footprintpress.com/RochesterAuthors/rafe.htm

Michael Scott Rohan—1951-
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/mike.scott.rohan/
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Michael_Scott_Rohan.htm

Charles Parlin Graves—1911-1972

Thomas B. Allen—1928-
http://www.tballen.com/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/allen.html
http://www.martystuart.com/Zart-Countrycom-5-17-00.htm

Katharine Holabird—1948-
http://www.pleasantcopublications.com/author_information/authors/holabird.htm
http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-angelina-titles.asp

Susan Mathias Smith—1950-

Charles Boardman Hawes—1889-1923
http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/quauthawescharlesbx001.htm

John Beatty—1922-1975
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Beatty_(illustrator)

Robert Burns—1759-1796

W. Somerset Maugham—1874-1965

Virginia Woolf—1882-1941

James Flora—1914-1998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Flora
http://www.askart.com/askart/f/james_flora/james_flora.aspx
http://www.artnet.com/artist/641633/james-flora.html
http://school.uaschools.org/greensview/ohioauthors/flora_james.htm

Barbara Rinkoff—1923-1975

Hilma Wolitzer—1930-
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/06/books/06bloc.html?ex=1304568000&en=5536b540eb83f95d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=33613
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5251475
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDA1638F936A1575AC0A96E948260

Roy Gerrard—1935-
http://www.crescentgallery.net/gerrard.html

Debbi Chocolate—1951-
http://www.chipublib.org/003cpl/childrensrvcs/srp01chocolate.html

Nicki Weiss—1954-

Mary Mapes Dodge—1831-1905
http://www.selfknowledge.com/125au.htm
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_3/dodge.htm

Maria von Trapp—1905-1987

Philip Jose Farmer—1918-2009

Charles Mikolaycak—1937-1993
http://www.oklahoma.net/~silvrdal/mikolaycak.html

Ashley Wolff—1956-
http://www.ashleywolff.com/

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)—1832-1898
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/carroll.html
http://www.literature.org/authors/carroll-lewis/
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/carrollov.html
http://www.lewis-carroll-birthplace.org.uk/
http://www.insite.com.br/rodrigo/text/lewis_carroll.html
http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/

Lorenz Graham—1902-1989

Jules Archer—1915-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Archer

Jean Merrill—1923-

Harry Allard—1928-

Mordecai Richler—1931- 2001

Julius Lester—1939-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/lester.html

Janice Van Cleave—1942-
http://janicevancleave.com/

Susan Guevara—1956-
http://www.susanguevara.com/index_flash.html

Vera B. Williams—1927-
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-williams-vera.asp
http://teachersnetwork.org/ntol/howto/childlit/authorstudy.htm
http://www.parents-choice.org/full_abstract.cfm?art_id=16&the_page=reading_list
http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/MeettheAuthor/Interview_Vera_Williams.htm

Ann Jonas—1932-
http://www.nccil.org/experience/artists/crewsfam/ajonas.htm

Anton Chekov—1860-1904

Bill Peet—1915-2002
http://www.tlsbooks.com/billpeetbooks.htm
http://www.gographics.com/funnies/peetintr.htm

Christopher Collier—1930-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Collier_%28historian%29
http://www.mcelmeel.com/writing/collier.html
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=5392
http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/author/C/Christopher_-_Collier.aspx
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1357&FullBreadCrumb=%3Ca+href%3D%22javascript%3Ahistory.go%28-1%29%22%3EHome%3C%2Fa%3E

Sylvia Cassedy—1930-1989
http://www.yabookscentral.com/cfusion/index.cfm?fuseAction=authors.viewAuthor&author_id=554
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Teachers/AuthorsAndIllustrators/
ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=11903
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/11903/Sylvia_Cassedy/index.aspx

Germaine Greer—1939-

Rosemary Wells—1943-
http://www.rosemarywells.com/
http://www.hbook.com/exhibit/wellsradio.html
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/wells.html
http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/dcorley/authors/Wells.htm

Susan Whitcher—1952-

Lloyd Alexander—1924-
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-alexander-lloyd.asp

Myron Levoy—1930-

Tony Johnston—1942-

Michael Dorris—1945-1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dorris
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A32
http://www.fullcirc.com/writing/dorris.htm
http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/index.php?display_article=vn695dorrised

Gerald McDermott—1941-
http://www.geraldmcdermott.com/

Denise Fleming—1950-
http://www.denisefleming.com/
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-fleming-denise.asp

Bryan Collier—1967-
http://www.bryancollier.com/
http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators/collier.mspx