
Author and Illustrator Almanac
May
May 1
http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/ArtistKeywords.aspx?searchtype=KEYWORDS&artist=30006
Louisa Shotwell—1902-1993
Elizabeth Marie Pope—1917-1992
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/0601gone.html
Joan Chase Bowden—1925-
http://www.writingforchildren.com/e8106/instructors.htm
http://home.xnet.com/~countzi/bookinfo.htm
http://www.trixie-belden.com/books/KathrynKenny.htm
Bobbie Ann Mason—1940-
http://www.eiu.edu/~eng1002/authors/mason/masonbio.html
http://www.womenwriters.net/bookreviews/Mason.htm
Robert Bender—1962-
http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-bender
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17447_26038_31186-79415--,00.html
May 2
Susan Shreve—1939-
http://www.gwu.edu/~media/pressreleases/shreve.html
http://www.nationalbook.org/sshrevebio.html
http://www.kwls.org/lit/pages/index.cfm
Mary Quattlebaum—1958-
http://www.maryquattlebaum.com/
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=24706
http://www.childrensbookguild.org/quattlebaum.htm
May 3
Suekichi Akaba—1910-1990
John Ney—1923-
Karen Heywood—1946-
Mavis Jukes—1947-
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-jukes-mavis.asp
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/k6/jukes.html
May 4
Clara Ingram Judson—1879-1960
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/biography.jsp?authorId=1991&authorName=Clara+Ingram+Judson
http://www.valerieslivingbooks.com/?CLSN_2835=120390517628359b5faec66ffe0c2c55&keyword=clara+ingram+judson&searchby=author&page=shop%2Fbrowse&fsb=1&Search=Search
Beverly Butler—1932-
Don Wood—1945-
http://www.audreywood.com/
Patricia Hooper—1941-
Cass R. Sandak—1950-2001
Doug Cushman—1953-
http://www.doug-cushman.com/
Dom Lee—1959-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/dlee.html
http://www.leeandlow.com/booktalk/domkeun.html
May 5
Leo Lionni—1910-1999
http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/Beal/Curriculum/media/Lionni/leolionni.html
http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Teachers/Literature/LeoL.html
http://design.rit.edu/Design/Biographies/lionni.html
Alice Low—1926-
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1632&FullBreadCrumb=%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.scholastic.com%2Fbrowse%2Fsearch%2F%3FNtt%3Dalice%2Blow%26query%3Dalice%2Blow%26Ntk%3DSCHL30_SI%26Ntx%3Dmode%2Bmatchallpartial%26N%3D0%26Nty%3D1%22+class%3D%22endecaAll%22%3EAll+Results%3C%2Fa%3E
Erol LeCain—1941-1989
J. Patrick Lewis—1942-
http://www.jpatricklewis.com/
http://www.ipl.org/youth/AskAuthor/jlewis.html
Todd Strasser—1950-
http://www.toddstrasser.com/
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3669&FullBreadCrumb=%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.scholastic.com%2Fbrowse%2Fsearch%2F%3Fquery%3Dtod%2Bstrasser%26Ntt%3Dtod%2Bstrasser%26Ntk%3DSCHL30_SI%26Ntx%3Dmode%2Bmatchallpartial%26y%3D0%26N%3D0%26Nty%3D1%26x%3D0%22+class%3D%22endecaAll%22%3EAll+Results%3C%2Fa%3E
May 6
Randall Jarrell—1914-1965
http://www.uncg.edu/lib/arch/jarrell/time.html
Judy Delton—1931-2002
Malcolm J. Bosse—1933-
Ted Lewin—1935-
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/tedlewin.htm
Susan Terris—1937-
Giulio Maestro—1942-
http://www.maestrobooks.com/
Barbara McClintock—1955-
http://www.visitingauthors.com/authors/mcclintock_barbara/mcclintock_barbara_bio.html
May 7
Robert Browning—1812-1889
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/browning.htm
http://incompetech.com/authors/rbrowning/
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/rb/rbov.html
http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/robert.browning.asp
Nonny Hogrogrian—1932-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/hogrogia.htm
Angela Carter—1940-1992
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/acarter.htm
Peter Carey—1943-
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/careyp/careyp.html
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=peter+carey&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=go&uri=%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Fauthor%2Fcarey%2F
May 8
Goldie Taub Chernoff—1909-
Milton Meltzer—1915-
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG1125f.html
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=archive&template=/contentmanagement/contentdisplay.cfm&ContentID=15519
http://www.bookrags.com/Milton_Meltzer
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv80041
http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Library/Archives/WAuthors/meltzer/bio.html
Mary Q. Steele (Wilson Gage)—1922-1992
Louise Meriwether—1923-
http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=329724
Leonard Blevgad—1926-
Helen Griffiths—1939-
Ellen Howard—1945-
http://usawrites4kids.drury.edu/authors/howard/
http://www.bookjackets.com/howard/howard.html
May 9
Sir James M. Barrie—1860-1937
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a10
http://www.jmbarrie.co.uk/
Eleanor Estes—1906-1988
http://www.kidspoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=989&column_type=author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Estes
http://eagerreaders.blogspot.com/2004/06/books-by-eleanor-estes.html
http://book.consumerhelpweb.com/authors/estes/estes.htm
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000779.shtml
Keith Robertson—1914-1991
William Pene DuBois—1916-1993
http://www.calculo.co.uk/authors/dubois.html
Richard Adams—1920-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Adams_(author)
http://www.findarticles.com/m2242/1615_277/64752236/p1/article.jhtml
http://wiredforbooks.org/richardadams/
May 10
Amabel Williams-Ellis—1894-1984
http://www.bill88.com/science_fiction_writers/w/amabel_williams_ellis.html
Virginia Meachum—1918-
Palmer Brown—1919-
John Rowe Townsend—1922-
http://www.greenbay.co.uk/jrt.html
http://www.rambles.net/townsend_written.html
Bruce McMillan—1947-
http://www.brucemcmillan.com/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/mcmillan.html
Caroline B. Cooney—1947-
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-cooney-caroline.asp
Christopher Paul Curtis—1954-
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-curtis-christopher-paul.asp
Linda Glaser—?
May 11
Sheila Burnford—1918-1984
Zilpha Keatley Snyder—1927-
http://www.zksnyder.com/
http://www.zksnyder.com/Autobiography.html
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/zilpha-keatley-snyder/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilpha_Keatley_Snyder
http://book.consumerhelpweb.com/authors/snyderz/snyder.htm
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=58062
Francine Jacobs—1935-
Juanita Havill—1949-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/havill.html
http://www.underdown.org/havill.htm
Peter Sís—1949-
http://www.petersistibet.com/
http://www.hborn.com/studio_sis.shtml
Jane Sutton—1950-
May 12
Edward Lear—1812-1888
Dante Rossetti—1828-1882
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rossetti/
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rossetti_dante_gabriel.html
Farley Mowat—1921-
http://www.ecobooks.com/authors/mowat.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_Mowat
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005502
http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/bios/Mowat.html
Caroline Feller Bauer-1935-
http://www.ber.org/InsBio.cfm?SESS_ID=BBB1S1-SAC
Betsy Lewin-1937-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/lewin.htm
Janice Lee Smith—1949-
Jennifer Armstrong—1961-
http://www.jennifer-armstrong.com/index.htm
http://www.jennifer-armstrong.blogspot.com/
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/childrens_writing/99157
May 13
Francine Pascal—1938-
http://www.francinepascal.com/
Norma Klein—1938-1989
Bernadette Watts—1942-
Jennifer Bryant—1960-
May 14
Walter Franklin Buehr—1897-1971
Grete (Salomon) Mannheim—1909-1986
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/CLRC-760.xml
Leo Bernard Keating—1915-2004
http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/BernKeating/Bern_Keating.html
Angela Mary Maddison (Angela Banner)—1923-
http://www.apathyhouse.com/antnbee/
George Selden Thompson—1929-1989
Eoin Colfer—1965-
http://www.eoincolfer.com/about/
May 15
L. Frank Baum—1856-1919
http://www.literarytraveler.com/spring/west/baum.htm
Constance Buel Burnett—1893-1975
Ellen MacGregor—1906-1954
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~treeleaf/macgregor/MacGregorEllenBiog54.htm
Norma Fox Mazer—1931-
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-mazer-norma.asp
http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/bibs/mazer.html
Richard Lewis—1935-
Paul Zindel—1936-
Nancy Garden—1938-
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-garden-nancy.asp
Eleanor Schick—1942-
G. Clifton Wisler—1950-
David Almond—1951-
http://www.davidalmond.com/
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/davidalmond/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Almond
Kadir Nelson—?
http://www.kadirnelson.com/Artist-Biography.html
http://www.thecollectionshop.com/Kadir_Nelson_Art_Collection.asp
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/951/Nelson-Kadir.html
May 16
D. S. Halacy—1919-
Margret Rey—1906-1996
Studs Terkel—1912- 2008
http://www.studsterkel.org/bio.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_Terkel
Betty Miles—1928-
Caroline Arnold—1944-
http://www.carolinearnoldbooks.com/
Deborah Nourse Lattimore—1949-
Bruce Coville—1950-
http://www.brucecoville.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Coville
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-coville-bruce.asp
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/bruce-coville/
Wendy Smith-Griswold—1955-
May 17
Edward Jenner—1749-1823
Eloise Greenfield—1929-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/greenfield.html
Nancy Polette—1930-
http://www.nancypolette.com/
Gary Paulsen—1939-
http://www.garypaulsen.com
Susan Gold Purdy—1939-
Jeanne Lee—1943-
May 18
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/hunt.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Hunt
http://www.bookrags.com/Irene_Hunt
http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/authors/hunt.cfm
Lillian Hoban—1925-1998
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/hobanrus.htm
Gloria Miklowitz—1927-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/miklowitz.htm
David Rees-1936-1993
Barbara Ann Porte-1943-
http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/author_xml.asp?authorID=18072
Ron Hirschi—1948-
Colin McNaughton—1951-
http://www.imagesofdelight.com/client.asp?id=50
http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/Colin-McNaughton
http://www.harpercollinschildrensbooks.co.uk/authors/default.aspx?id=3924
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_McNaughton
Diane Duane—1952-
http://www.sfbookcase.com/author.asp?author=Diane+Duane
Deborah Guarino—1954-
Debra Dadey—1959-
http://www.baileykids.com
May 19
Pauline Clarke—1921-
Mary V. Carey—1925-
http://www.3investigators.homestead.com/files/carey.htm
Tom Feelings—1933-2003
http://www.juneteenth.com/Tom_Feelings.htm
http://dept.kent.edu/virginiahamiltonconf/feelings.html
Peter J. Lippman—1936-
Judith Hendershott—1940-
Arthur Dorros—1950-
http://www.arthurdorros.com/
Sarah Ellis—1952-
http://www.cbc4kids.cbc.ca/general/words/author-of-the-month/Ellis_Sarah/default.html
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/k6/ellis.html
Elise Primavera—1954-
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/primavera.html
http://www.bookpage.com/9912bp/elise_primavera.html
Kimberly Bulcken Root—1957-
May 20
Sorche Nic Leodhas—1898-1987
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/0598gone.html
Don Lawson—1917-1990
Shirley Rousseau Murphy—1928-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/murphy,shirley.htm
Carol Carrick—1935-
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=1227
Carolyn Croll-1945-
http://www.hkportfolio.com/cgi-bin/iowa/artists.html?artist=10
Mary Pope Osborne—1949-
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3464&FullBreadCrumb=%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.scholastic.com%2Fbrowse%2Fsearch%2F%3Fquery%3Dmary%2Bpope%2Bosborne%26Ntt%3Dmary%2Bpope%2Bosborne%26Ntk%3DSCHL30_SI%26Ntx%3Dmode%2Bmatchallpartial%26y%3D0%26N%3D0%26Nty%3D1%26x%3D0%22+class%3D%22endecaAll%22%3EAll+Results%3C%2Fa%3E
http://www.talkcity.com/educenter/trans/3-2-99.2.htmpl
May 21
Virginia Haviland—1911-1988
Harold Robbins—1916-1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Robbins
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/robbins.htm
Janet Bruce Winn—1928-
Brenda Seabrook—1941-
http://www.childrensbookguild.org/seabrooke.html
Beverly Naidoo—1943-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/naidoo.htm
Erica Silverman—1955-
Bonnie Bryant—?
http://www.myshelf.com/aom/00/bryant.html#bonnie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Bryant
http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/for_children/kid_lit_authors_a_-_k/bonnie_bryant.html
May 22
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—1859-1930
http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/
http://sirconandoyle.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/acdoyle.htm
http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/acdsocy.html
Arnold Lobel—1933-1987
http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/bibs/lobel.html
Ruth Young—1946-
May 23
Scott O'Dell—1898-1989
Margaret Wise Brown—1910-1952
http://www.margaretwisebrown.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wise_Brown
http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/margaret.wise.brown.asp
http://www.btd-island.com/MWB.htm
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=11849
Oliver Butterworth—1915-1990
James Blish—1921-1975
Susan Cooper—1935-
http://www.thelostland.com/biography.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Cooper
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-cooper-susan.asp
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14783609
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/intrvws/cooper.htm
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11698
Peter Parnall—1936-
Merle Peek—1938-
Marcia Keegan—1943-
Jeanne Titherington—1951-
May 24
Elizabeth Lewis—1892-1958
Mary Stolz—1920-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/stolz.htm
Paula Taylor—1942-
Diane Degroat—1947-
Candace Fleming—1962-
May 25
Robert Froman—1917-
Martha Alexander—1920-
Audrey Smith—1930-
http://www.publiclibraries.com/authors/asmith1/index.html
Ivy Ruckman—1931-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Ruckman
http://mrsdell.org/twisters/ruckman.htm
Ann McGovern—1931-
http://www.annmcgovern.com/
Betty Levine—1933-
Joyce Carol Thomas—1938-
http://www.joycecarolthomas.com/
Barbara Bottner—1943-
May 26
Ruth Arthur—1905-1979
Ann Schlee—1934-
Sheila Greenwald—1934-
Adrienne Kennaway—1945-
Lisbeth Zwerger—1954-
May 27
Rachel Carson—1907-1964
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/carson.html
http://www.lkwdpl.org/WIHOHIO/cars-rac.htm
http://www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org/
M. E. Kerr—1927-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/kerr.htm
Lynn Sweat—1934-
Garnet Nelson Jackson—1944-
May 28
Ian Fleming—1909-1964
http://www.klast.net/bond/fleming.html
Herman Wouk—1915-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Wouk
Isabella Leitner-1924-
Debby Atwell—1953-
May 29
T. H. White—1906-1964
Eleanor Coerr—1922-
Lila McGinnis—1924-
Willo Davis Roberts—1928-
Brock Cole—1938-
Andrew Clements—1949-
Stephen T. Johnson—1964-
May 30
Cornelia Otis Skinner—1901-1979
Millicent E. Selsam—1912-
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/SELSAM,M.htm
Frances Barnes-Murphy—1951-
May 31
Elizabeth Coatsworth—1893-1986
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/coatswor.htm
Alfred Tamarin—1913-1980
Jay Williams—1914-1978
Madeleine Polland—1918-
Harry Mazer—1925-
Ron Goor—1940-
Elaine Moore—1944-
http://www.childrensbookguild.org/Moore.html
Will Hillenbrand—1960-
http://www.willhillenbrand.com/
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/0597rise.html




