George Sand—1804-1876
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/knudson.htm

Emily McCully—1939-
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3361

Helen Ketteman—1945-
http://www.helenketteman.com/index.htm

Hermann Hesse—1877-1962
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hhesse.htm

Jean Craighead George—1919-2012
http://www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com

Laurence Swinburne—1924-

Jack Gantos—1951-
http://www.jackgantos.com

M. F. K. Fisher—1908-1992
http://mfkfisher.com/

Dave Barry—1947-
http://www.davebarry.com/

Christine McDonnell—1949-

Nathaniel Hawthorne—1804-1864
http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hawthorn.htm

Jamie Gilson—1933-
http://jamiegilson.com

Jean Cocteau—1889-1963

John Schoenherr—1935-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schoenherr

Jill Murphy—1949-
http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/Jill-Murphy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Murphy

Meredith Ann Pierce—1958-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Ann_Pierce

Carol Lerner—1927-
http://www.ohioswallow.com/author/Carol_Lerner

Gloria Joan Skurzynski—1930-
http://gloriabooks.com/bio.html
http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Skurzynski__Gloria.html

Cheryl Harness—1951-
http://www.cherylharness.com/biography.htm
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/15389/Cheryl_Harness/index.aspx

Kathi Appelt—1954-
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Teachers/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=11738
http://www.kathiappelt.com/about.html

Janni Howker—1957-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janni_Howker

Robert Heinlein—1907-1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein

David McCullough—1933-
http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/mccullough/biography.html
http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-mccullough-david.asp

Harriet Ziefert—1941-
http://www.answers.com/topic/harriet-ziefert

Wendy Watson—1942-
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=164501

Nathan Aaseng—1953-
http://www.walkeryoungreaders.com/authors_and_illustrators/?cmd=showtitles&author_id=165&author_name=Nathan%20Aaseng&author_type=1

Shirley Ann Grau—1930-
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4373/Grau-Shirley-Ann.html

James Cross Giblin—1933-
http://www.orrt.org/giblin/

Jerry Stanley—1941-
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=29499&view=full_sptlght

Susan Price—?
http://www.susanprice.org.uk/

Ann Ward Radcliffe—1764-1823
http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/radcliffe-ann-ward

Barbara Cartland—1901-2000
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bcartlan.htm

June Jordan—1936-2002
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/jordan_june.html

Nancy Farmer—1941-
http://www.teenspoint.org/reading_matters/columns2.asp?column_id=1153&column_type=tpauthprofile

Dean Koontz—1945-
http://www.veinotte.com/koontz/bio.htm

Mary O’ Hara—1885-1980
http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/o_hara_mary_wy.htm

Marcel Proust—1871-1922
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/kolbp/proust.html

Fred Gwynne—1926-1993
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9542215

Judie Angell—1937-

E. B. White—1899-1985
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebwhite.htm

James Stevenson—1910-
http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/jstevenson.html

Patricia Polacco—1944-
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/polacco.htm

Henry David Thoreau—1817-1862
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/thoreau.htm

Johanna Spyri—1827-1901
http://www.online-literature.com/spyri/

Herbert Zim—1909-1994
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG1086f.html

Betty Sue Cummings—1918-
http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/Betty+Sue+Cummings

Masako Matsuno—1935-

Bill Cosby—1937-
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9258468

Joan Bauer—1951-
http://www.joanbauer.com/jbhome.html

Marcia Brown—1918-
http://www.albany.edu/feature/marcia_brown/

Ashley Bryan—1923-
http://www.cbcbooks.org/cbcmagazine/meet/ashleybryan.html

Michael Dooling—1933-
http://www.michaeldooling.com/

Anna Grossnickle Hines—1946-
http://www.aghines.com/

Owen Wister—1860-1938
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/owister.htm

Irving Stone—1903-1989
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201167

Isaac Bashevis Singer—1904-1991
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1978/singer-bio.html

Peggy Parish—1927-1988
http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-amelia-author.asp

Laura Joffe Numeroff—1953-
http://www.lauranumeroff.com/

Brian Selznick—1966-
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-selznick-brian.asp

Clement C. Moore—1779-1863
http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/clement.c.moore.asp

Thomas Bulfinch—1796-1867
http://www.online-literature.com/bulfinch/

Walter D. Edmonds—1903-1998
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/01.29/WalterDEdmondsF.html

Richard Russo—1949-
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Russo__Richard.html

Marcia Thornton Jones—1958-
http://www.baileykids.com/authors.htm

Cheryl Harshman—?-

Shirley Hughes—1927-
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000015904,00.html

Arnold Adoff—1935-
http://www.arnoldadoff.com/

Richard Egielski—1952-
http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators/egielski.mspx

Erle Stanley Gardner—1889-1970
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/erle-stanley-gardner/

Karla Kuskin—1932-
http://www.charlottezolotow.com/karla_kuskin.htm

Chris Crutcher—1946-
http://www.chriscrutcher.com/

William M. Thackeray—1811-1863
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wmthacke.htm

Jessamyn West—1902-1984
http://www.jessamyn.com/jessamyn/jessbio.html

Hunter S. Thompson—1937-2005
http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/huntersthompson.html

Felicia Bond—1954-
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=11820

Cornelia Cornelissen—?

John Newbery—1713-1767
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0835366.html

Eve Merriam—1916-1992
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/159

Marilyn Kaye—1949-
http://www.marilynkaye.com/

Cormac McCarthy—1933-
http://www.cormacmccarthy.com/Biography.htm

Paulette Bourgeois—1951-
http://www.franklin.ecsd.net/author_paulette_bourgeois.htm

Mark Buehner—1959-
http://www.rif.org/art/illustrators/beuhner.mspx

Frances Parkinson Keyes—1885-1970

Ernest Hemingway—1899-1961
http://www.infoplease.com/birthday/July-21

John Gardner—1933-1982
http://www.genesee.edu/gardner/

Garry Beekman Trudeau—1949-
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0849522.html

Marc Talbert—1953-
http://www.marctalbert.com/html/about.html

Emma Lazarus—1849-1887
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ki-Lo/Lazarus-Emma.html

Stephen Vincent Benet—1898-1943
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sbenet.htm

Amy Vanderbilt—1908-1974

Patricia Calvert—1931-
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/patricia-calvert-aya/

S. E. Hinton—1948-
http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/sehinton.html

Margery Williams—1881-1944
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Bianco__Margery_Williams.html

Raymond Chandler—1888-1959
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rchandle.htm

Robert Quackenbush—1929-
http://www.rquackenbush.com/meet_the_author.htm

Alexander Dumas—1802-1870
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/adumas1.htm

Ambrose Bierce—1842-1914
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bierce.htm

Zelda Fitzgerald—1900-1948

John D. McDonald—1916-1986
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jdmacd.htm

Charlotte Pomerantz—1930-
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=12606

Amy Ehrlich—1942-

Sherry Garland—1948-
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/collateral.jsp?id=281_type=Contributor_typeId=1461

Ruth Krauss—1911-1993
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/findaids/Krauss/MSS19940007.html

Clyde Watson—1947-
http://clydewatson.com/index.htm

Michelle Poploff—1956-

Rachel Vail—1966-
http://www.rachelvail.com/pages/biography.html

George Bernard Shaw—1856-1950
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gbshaw.htm
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~cmazer/mis1.html

Paul William Gallico—1897-1976
http://www.paulgallico.info/gallicobiog.html

Elizabeth Hardwick—1916-2007
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-HardwickE.html

Jan Berenstain—1923-
http://www.berenstainbears.com/sjbio.html
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/berenstain.html

Stephen Cosgrove—1945-
http://www.stephencosgrove.com/

Hilaire Belloc—1870-1953
http://www.sndc.demon.co.uk/belloc.htm

Scott Corbett—1913-
http://www.damfino.com/authors/scorbett/bibliography.html
http://scorbett.com/

Beatrix Potter—1866-1943
http://www.peterrabbit.com/beatrixpotter/
http://www.visitcumbria.com/bpotter.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bpotter.htm
http://www.ortakales.com/illustrators/Potter.html
http://www.literarytraveler.com/authors/beatrix_potter.aspx

Clarence (Malcolm) Lowry—1909-1957
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mlowry.htm

Natalie Babbit—1932-
http://www.ipl.org/div/askauthor/babbitt.html
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3554

Lynn Reiser—1944-
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/18175/Lynn_Reiser/index.aspx
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375852053

Jim Davis—1945-
http://pressroom.garfield.com/jim_bio/
http://lambiek.net/artists/d/davis_jim.htm

Booth Tarkington—1869-1946
http://www.online-literature.com/tarkington/

Jean Karl—1927-2000
http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Karl__Jean.html

Sharon Creech—1945-
http://www.sharoncreech.com/index.html

Kathleen Krull—1952-
http://www.kathleenkrull.com/author.html

Robin Koontz—1954-
http://www.robinkoontz.com/

Connie Porter—1959?-
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=1244
http://www.pleasantco.com/authors/connieporter.aspx

Adele Griffin—1970-
http://www.adelegriffin.com/

Emily Bronte—1818-1848
http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebronte.htm
http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/brontes/emily/emily.asp

Pat Schories—1952-
http://patschories.com/

Marcus Pfister—?-
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3482

Antoine de Saint-Exupery—1900-1944
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/exupery.htm
http://www.interondesign.com/saint-exupery.htm

Milton Friedman—1912-2006
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/fri0bio-1

Lynne Reid Banks—1929-
http://www.lynnereidbanks.com/

Muriel Feelings—1938-
http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Feelings__Muriel.html

J. K. Rowling—1965-
http://www.jkrowling.com/