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Mei Hachimoku (八目迷)
Mei Hachimoku (八目迷), Japanese light novelist born 1994, debut The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (Gagaga Bunko, 2019), adapted into a 2022 CLAP anime film; works published by Shogakukan, Seven Seas, Yen Press.
Ned Vizzini
Ned Vizzini (1981-2013), American young adult author of Be More Chill and It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on his psychiatric hospitalization; adapted to film in 2010; died by suicide at 32.
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness (born 1971) is an American-born author living in London, known for the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls, twice Carnegie Medal winner, also screenwriter and Guardian reviewer.
Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman (born 1946, Norwich) is the English author of His Dark Materials (Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) and The Book of Dust trilogy, winner of the Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Book of the Year, knighted in 2019.
Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell, American novelist of Omaha, Nebraska, author of Attachments, Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, the Simon Snow trilogy (Carry On, Wayward Son, Any Way the Wind Blows), Pumpkinheads, Slow Dance, and Cherry Baby.
Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker whose Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011) became a bestselling series of six novels, adapted by Tim Burton in 2016.
Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier (Robert Edmund Cormier, 1925–2000) was an American novelist and journalist whose dark young adult novel The Chocolate War (1974) helped establish the YA novel.
S. E. Hinton
S. E. Hinton (Susan Eloise Hinton, born 1948, Tulsa) is the American author of The Outsiders (1967), written in high school and credited with launching modern young adult fiction; her other novels include Rumble Fish and Tex.
Sangu Mandanna
Sangu Mandanna (born 1987/1988, Bengaluru, India) is a British-Indian novelist in Norwich, England. Known for The Lost Girl (2012), the Mahabharata space-opera Celestial Trilogy, and the cozy fantasy bestseller The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (2022).
Sara Shepard
Sara Shepard, American #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game, The Perfectionists, and Reputation; Pittsburgh-based, NYU and Brooklyn College MFA, also writes the Penny Draws middle grade series.
Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins (born 1962, Hartford, Connecticut) is the American author of The Hunger Games five-book dystopian series and The Underland Chronicles; over 100 million copies sold, $3.4 billion film franchise.
Tahereh Mafi
Tahereh Mafi (born 1988) is an American YA author, creator of the Shatter Me dystopian romance series and its New Republic spinoff, plus This Woven Kingdom and Furthermore; National Book Award longlisted.
Valerie Mendes
Valerie Mendes (born 1939, Buckinghamshire) is a British novelist of young adult fiction (Girl in the Attic, The Drowning) and adult historical novels (Larkswood, The Choice), distinct from V&A fashion historian Valerie D. Mendes.