Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson

female, 48 years old
Laurie Halse Anderson (born October 23, 1961) is a U.S. author who writes for children and young adults. She is best known for her young adult...

John Green

male, 32 years old
John Green (b. 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a young adult novelist. His first novel, "Looking for Alaska", won the 2006 Michael L. Printz...
Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers

male, 72 years old
Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Myers August 12, 1937, Martinsburg, West Virginia, raised in Harlem) is an African American author of young adult...
Chris Crutcher

Chris Crutcher

male, 63 years old
Chris Crutcher is a contemporary American fiction writer and a family therapist.
Cecil Castellucci

Cecil Castellucci

female
Cecil Castellucci, also known as Cecil Seaskull, is a young adult novelist, indie rocker, and director. She currently lives in Los Angeles,...
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...
Jaclyn Moriarty

Jaclyn Moriarty

female
Jaclyn Moriarty (born in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian writer of young adult literature. She studied English at the University of Sydney, and...
Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen

female
Sarah Dessen is a American writer for young adults, living and teaching in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was born on June 6, 1970 in Illinois,...
Robert Cormier

Robert Cormier

male, deceased (2000)
Robert Edmund Cormier was an American author for young adults. He lived in Leominster, Massachusetts, USA. He grew up and married there and he...