- Michael Gorman
Michael Gorman (b. 1941), grew up in London, England and gained an interest in libraries in part through his experiences at the Hendon library run by Eileen Colwell. He attended Ealing Technical College (now Thames Valley University) in London from 1964-1966. - Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Myers August 12, 1937, Martinsburg, West Virginia, raised in Harlem) is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written dozens of books, including novels and non-fiction works. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors four times. One of these books, "Fallen Angels", has made the American Library Association's list of frequently challenged books, … - Melvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey (December 10, 1851-December 26, 1931) was the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for library classification. Dewey was born Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey in Adams Center, New York in the United States. He attended Amherst College, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He graduated in 1874 with a bachelor's degree and received a master's degree from Amherst in 1877. - Judith Krug
Judith Fingeret Krug is a United States librarian. She has been the Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom since 1967. She has held the post of Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation since 1969. She received her B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied political theory. In 1964, she earned her M.A. at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. - John Green
John Green (b. 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a young adult novelist. His first novel, "Looking for Alaska", won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, "An Abundance of Katherines" (2006), was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book. Green attended Indian Springs School, a boarding and day school outside of Birmingham, Alabama. - Jessamyn West
Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is a librarian and a former member of the American Library Association Council. Her father is Tom West. She is a self-described "anti-capitalist" who as of 2006 operates the blog librarian.net. She also operates the websites jessamyn.com and jessamyn.info and is a moderator on MetaFilter. - Keith Michael Fiels
Keith Michael Fiels (born 1949) is an American librarian. He was appointed Executive Director of the American Library Association in July 2002. Keith Fiels earned a B.A. and an MLS from the State University of New York, Buffalo and did advanced studies at the University of Denver. Prior to coming to ALA, Fiels served as Director of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Fiels has served as President of the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), … - Alvin Schwartz
Alvin Schwartz (born April 25 1927, in Brooklyn, New York; died March 14, 1992) was the author of books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and wordplay, many of which were intended for young readers. He is often confused with another Alvin Schwartz, who wrote Superman and Batman daily comics strips and a novel titled 'The Blowtop'. Schwartz graduated from Colby College and received a graduate degree from Northwestern University. - Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld (born May 5 1963) is a New York Times bestselling author of science fiction and young adult literature. He was born in the U.S. state of Texas and now lives in Sydney, Australia and New York City. His book "Evolution's Darling" was a New York Times Notable Book (2000), and won a Special Citation for the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award. "The Risen Empire" and "The Killing of Worlds" are parts one and two of the same book, … - Nancy Garden
Nancy Garden (born May 15, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author best known for "Annie on My Mind", which was critically acclaimed but attracted controversy because of its homosexual characters. In 1993, it was banned by the Kansas City school system and burnt in demonstrations. It was returned to shelves only after a First Amendment lawsuit by students in 1995. She has also written non-fiction, mystery and fantasy for children and young adults. - Barbara Gittings
Barbara Gittings was a prominent American LGBT activist. - Jack Gantos
Jack Gantos (born July 2 1951) (real name: "John Bryan Gantos, Jr.") is an American author of children's books renowned for his portrayal of fictional Joey Pigza, a boy with ADHD. Gantos has won a number of awards, including the Newbery Honor, the Printz Honor, and the Sibert Honor from the American Library Association, and he has been a finalist for the National Book Award. His newest book, "The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs" (2006), deals with twins, eugenics, … - Nancy Pearl
Nancy Pearl (born January 12 1945) is a librarian, best-selling author, book reviewer and was, until August 2004, the Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. Her prolific reading and her knowledge of books and literature first made her locally famous in Seattle, Washington, where she regularly appears on public radio recommending books. She achieved broader fame with "Book Lust," her 2003 guide to good reading. - David Horowitz
The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato... ... The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato... - Lynne Rae Perkins
Lynne Rae Perkins (born 1956) is a Newbery Medal winning American writer and illustrator of books for children. Her novel "Criss Cross", winner of the 2006 Newbery Medal, is a book of vignettes, illustrations, photographs, and poems about a group of four small town teenagers. "Writing in a wry, omniscient third-person narrative voice, Perkins deftly captures the tentativeness and incompleteness of adolescence," said Award Committee Chair Barbara Barstow. - Barbara Cooney
Barbara Cooney was an American children's author and illustrator of more than 200 books and double Caldecott Medalist. She has written books for six decades. Her books have been translated into 10 languages. - James Lincoln Collier
James Lincoln Collier is a journalist, author, and professional musician. Collier was born on June 27, 1928 to Edmund Collier and Katherine Brown. He came from a writing family; his father and several aunts and uncles were authors. A journalist with 30 years experience, Collier worked with his brother, Christopher Collier, to create works of historical fiction designed to be fun and educational for children. - Mel Odom
Mel Odom (born 1957) is a writer who has published more than 140 books. He is best known for his novels of science fiction and fantasy, though he has also written non-fiction about computer gaming. He has published original novels for popular TV shows, including "Roswell" and "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch". The most popular show for which he has written original novels is "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". - Justin Winsor
Justin Winsor (January 2, 1831-October 22, 1897) was a prominent American writer, librarian, and historian. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Boston Latin School. He entered Harvard, but left early to study in Paris and Heidelberg. He did finally receive his degree in 1853. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. - Lynda Madaras
Lynda Madaras is an educator and author. She has written a number of books on puberty including two ("What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters", and "What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons") that are on the American Library Association's list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books 1990-2000. She has one daughter, Area, and two granddaughters. - Herbert Putnam
Herbert Putnam, Litt.D., LL.D. (September 20 1861 - August 14 1955) was Librarian of Congress. He was born in New York City, where his father George Palmer Putnam was a noted publisher. He graduated from Harvard in 1883, studied law at Columbia, and was admitted to the bar in 1886. He was librarian at the Minneapolis Athenaeum, 1884-1887, and the Minneapolis Public Library, 1887-1891. - Eli M. Oboler
Eli M. Oboler (1915-1983) was head librarian at the Idaho State University library, later Eli M. Oboler Library from 1949 to 1980. He was also a member of the Idaho Library Association and the Pacific Northwest Library Association, and served as president for both organizations. Oboler held degrees from both the University of Chicago and Columbia University, including a Bachelor of Science degree in Library Science. - Elizabeth Enright
Elizabeth Enright (September 17, 1909 - June 8, 1968) was an American children's author and illustrator. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Her father, Walter J. Enright, was a political cartoonist; her mother, Maginel Wright Enright, was a magazine illustrator and the sister of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Enright studied at the Art Students League of New York in 1927-28, and at the Parsons School of Design. - Robert C. O'Brien
Robert Leslie Conly (better known by his pen name, "Robert C. O'Brien") was an American author and journalist for "National Geographic". He was the third of five children from a well-educated Irish-Catholic family. He was listed as 4-F during World War II, largely on physical grounds, as he tended to be ill as a child, though there were psychological grounds as well, as he had a mental breakdown in his early adulthood. - Alex Flinn
Alex Flinn is an author of novels for young adults. To date, she has written five books which have been published. A sixth novel, "Beastly" will be published in the fall of 2007. Flinn's first novel, "Breathing Underwater" was originally published in 2001 and was chosen by the American Library Association as a Top-10 Best Book for Young Adults for that 2001. This list is at [www.ala.org/yalsa]. - Ann Rinaldi
Ann Rinaldi (b. August 27, 1934, in New York City) is a young adult fiction author. She is best known for her historical fiction, including "In My Father's House", "The Last Silk Dress", "An Acquaintance with Darkness", "A Break with Charity", and "Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons". She has written a total of forty novels, eight of which were listed as notable by the ALA. - Sarah Thomas
Sarah E. Thomas is an internationally-known university librarian. She has held the office of Bodley's Librarian and Director of University Library Services at the University of Oxford since February 2007. In this position, she is responsible for the operation of the largest university library in the United Kingdom, and one of the major research libraries in the world. Dr Thomas was raised in Haydenville, Massachusetts and studied at Smith College. - Charles Ammi Cutter
Charles Ammi Cutter (14 March 1837-6 September, 1903) is an important figure in the history of American library science. Cutter was appointed assistant librarian of Harvard Divinity School while still a student there. After graduation, Cutter worked as a librarian at Harvard College, where he developed a new form of index catalog, using cards instead of published volumes, containing both an author index and a "classed catalog" or a rudimentary form of subject index. - Seymour Lubetzky
Seymour Lubetzky (April 28, 1898-April 5, 2003) was a major cataloging theorist and a prominent librarian. Born in Belarus as Shmaryahu Lubetzky, he worked for years at the Library of Congress. He worked as a teacher before he immigrated to the United States in 1927. He earned his BA from UCLA in 1931, and his MA from UC Berkeley in 1932. Lubetzky also taught at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, … - David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham has thus far built his reputation as an historical novelist. His first novel, "Gabriel's Story", centered on African American settlers in the American West. "Walk Through Darkness" followed a runaway slave during the tense times leading up to the American Civil War. "Pride of Carthage" focussed on Hannibal Barca of Ancient Carthage and his war with the Roman Republic. His novels have twice been "New York Times" Notable Books, … - Sara Ryan
Sara Ryan (born 1971) is an American writer and librarian living in Oregon. - Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer (born Judith Ortiz in 1952 in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico), is an acclaimed Puerto Rican author. Her works span a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and Young Adult novels. Cofer came to the United States in 1956 when her family moved to Paterson, New Jersey, though her family often made back-and-forth trips between Paterson and Hormigueros. In 1967, her family moved to Augusta, Georgia, … - Janet McDonald
Janet McDonald (d. 2007) wrote novels for young adults as well as a memoir, "Project Girl", about her own upbringing and education. Her best-known children's book is "Spellbound", which tells the story of a teenaged mother who wins a spelling competition and a college scholarship. The book was named as the American Library Association's "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2002. McDonald lived in Paris for most of her adult life and died there on April 11, … - Mark Fiore
Mark Fiore is an American political cartoonist specializing in Flash-animated editorial cartoons. Fiore lives in San Francisco, California and his cartoons have appeared in numerous American papers and a number of websites. He studied political science at Colorado College and was a staff cartoonist for the San Jose Mercury News. He left newspapers for animated online comics in 2001, and he currently makes animated editorial cartoons for his website,, … - Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a clinical psychologist. Born in New York City, she has focused her research on psychoanalysis and culture and on the psychology of people's relationship with technology, especially computer technology and computer addiction. - Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960 in Long Island) is a critic and author. Mendelsohn graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia, and received his M. A. and Ph. D. in Classics from Princeton University, where he was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. Upon completing his Ph.D. in 1994, he began a career in journalism in New York City. His review-essays about books, films, and theater appear frequently in The New York Review of Books. - Esmeralda Santiago
Esmeralda Santiago (born 1948 in San Juan, Puerto Rico). Is a renowned Puerto Rican author In 1961, she came to the United States when she was thirteen years old, the eldest in a family that would eventually include eleven children. Ms. Santiago attended New York City's Performing Arts High School, where she majored in drama and dance. After eight years of part-time study at community colleges, she transferred to Harvard University with a full scholarship. - Eric Moon
Eric Edward Moon (born 1923) is a librarian and editor who had a shaping influence on American librarianship in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, as editor of "Library Journal", as President of the American Library Association, and as chief editor at Scarecrow Press. Eric Moon was born on March 6, 1923 in Yeovil, England, and spent most of his youth in Southampton. He worked at Southampton Public Library from 1938 until he began his military service in 1941. - Dan Chaon
Dan Chaon (born 1964) is an American author. His best-selling first novel was "You Remind Me of Me" (2004). His short-story collections "Fitting Ends" (1996) and "Among the Missing" (2001) were both well-received; the latter was a finalist for a National Book Award, … - Jim Grimsley
Jim Grimsley (born 1955) is an American novelist and playwright
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