Jennifer L. Holm

female
Jennifer L. Holm is a Newbery Honor-winning author. Holm was raised in Audobon, Pennsylvania with her four brothers. After graduating from...
Gary Paulsen

Gary Paulsen

male, 70 years old
Gary Paulsen is an American writer, who writes many young adult coming of age stories about the wilderness. He is the author of more than 200 books...
Sharon Creech

Sharon Creech

female, 64 years old
Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American novelist of children's fiction. Her novel "Walk Two Moons" received the 1995 Newbery Medal; "The...
Megan Whalen Turner

Megan Whalen Turner

female, 44 years old
Megan Whalen Turner (born 1965) is an American author of fantasy fiction for young adults. She received her BA with honors in English language and...
Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis

male, 56 years old
Christopher Paul Curtis (born May 10, 1953) is an American children's author and a Newbery Medal winner who wrote the "The Watsons Go to...
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

female, 82 years old
Zilpha Keatley Snyder (born 1927) is an acclaimed author of books for children and young adults. Snyder was awarded three Newbery Honor Book awards...
Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale

female, 35 years old
Shannon Hale (born January 26, 1974) is an American author of young adult fantasy and adult fiction.
Kate Dicamillo

Kate Dicamillo

female, deceased (1964) (Philadelphia)
Kate DiCamillo is "short. And loud," as she admitted on her Web site. Though she had trained to become an author throughout her education, prior to...
Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen

male, 56 years old
Carl Hiaasen (born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist.
Patricia Reilly Giff

Patricia Reilly Giff

female, 74 years old
Patricia Reilly Giff (born April 26 1935 in Brooklyn, New York) is an author and teacher.She was educated at Marymount College, where she was...