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E. B. White
E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White, 1899-1985), American essayist and children's author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan; New Yorker writer and reviser of Strunk's Elements of Style; special Pulitzer 1978; died at his Maine farm.
E. Nesbit
E. Nesbit (Edith Nesbit Bland, 1858–1924), English author of The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and the Bastable books; Fabian socialist who modernized children's fantasy.
Edith Howes
Edith Howes was a New Zealand teacher and children's writer who wrote about 30 books, pioneered Montessori-influenced infant teaching at Gore, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.
Edward Stratemeyer
Edward Stratemeyer (1862–1930), American author and publisher, founded the Stratemeyer Syndicate book-packaging firm in 1905, creator of the Rover Boys, Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew series written by paid ghostwriters under house pseudonyms.
Ellen Niit
Ellen Niit (born Ellen Hiob, 1928–2016) was an Estonian children's writer, poet, and translator who published more than 40 children's books and was the wife of Jaan Kross.
Emma Walton Hamilton
Emma Walton Hamilton, full name Emma Katherine Walton Hamilton, is a British-born American author and educator, daughter of Julie Andrews, with whom she has co-authored over thirty-five books.
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton (1897–1968), English children's author of the Famous Five, Secret Seven, Noddy, and Malory Towers; wrote an estimated 700 books, selling over 600 million copies in 40 languages, while attracting persistent criticism for sexism, racism, and xenophobia in her texts.
Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer (born 1965, Wexford, Ireland) is an Irish children's and adult author, creator of the 25-million-selling Artemis Fowl series, Fowl Twins trilogy, Highfire, and Ireland's third Laureate na nÓg (2014–2016).
Eric Carle
Eric Carle (1929-2021), American picture-book author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear; known for painted tissue-paper collage, over 70 books, 170 million copies, and the Amherst museum he founded.
Erich Kästner
Erich Kästner (1899–1974) was a German writer, poet, and satirist whose Emil und die Detektive (1929) founded the realistic children's novel in German; his books were burned by the Nazis in 1933.
Erin Hunter
Erin Hunter is the collective pseudonym used by a team of up to nine writers and editors, created by Victoria Holmes for the Warriors series of feral cat books.
Fatou Keïta
Fatou Keïta is an Ivorian academic and writer who teaches English literature in Abidjan and is best known for her children's books and the novel Rebelle (1998), on female genital cutting.
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (1695?-1755), French novelist and fairy-tale writer, wife of J.-B. de Gaillon de Villeneuve; wrote the original 1740 La Belle et la Bête in La Jeune Américaine, et les contes marins, later abridged by Beaumont.
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen (1939-2021), American young-adult author of over 200 books including Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room; three Newbery Honors, 1997 Margaret A. Edwards Award, Iditarod racer, 35 million copies sold.
Gordon Korman
Gordon Richard Korman (born 1963) is a Canadian-born author of over 100 children's and young-adult novels. His first book, This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall, was written in 7th grade and published by Scholastic in 1978; his 100th, The Fort, appeared in 2022.
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (H.C. Andersen), Danish author 1805-1875, born in Odense; literary fairy-tale writer whose tales, including The Snow Queen and The Little Mermaid, are translated into over 160 languages, distinct from the physicist Hans C. Andersen.
Hemendra Kumar Roy
Hemendra Kumar Roy (হেমেন্দ্রকুমার রায়), born Prasaddas Ray (1888–1963), was a Bengali writer from Calcutta who pioneered children's adventure, detective, and science fiction, creating Jayanta-Manik and Bimal-Kumar and the classic Jokher Dhan.
Holly Black
Holly Black (born 1971) is the American fantasy author of Tithe, The Spiderwick Chronicles with Tony DiTerlizzi, The Folk of the Air (The Cruel Prince), and adult debut Book of Night; Newbery Honor, Nebula, and Mythopoeic Award winner.
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger Jr. (1832–1899) was an American author of about 100 juvenile novels, best known for "rags-to-riches" stories in which poor but honest boys rise through hard work and luck.
Houshang Moradi Kermani
Houshang Moradi Kermani (هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی), born 1944 in Sirch near Kerman, is an Iranian writer of children's and young adult literature best known for the Tales of Majid.
Hugh Lofting
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), British-born engineer turned author, created Doctor Dolittle in 1920 from letters written to his children from World War I trenches; his Voyages of Doctor Dolittle won a Newbery Medal.
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874–1938) was a Croatian children's writer known as the "Croatian Andersen," whose Priče iz davnine drew on Slavic mythology; she was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize.
J. K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling (Joanne Rowling, born 1965) is the British author of the seven-book Harry Potter series (1997–2007, over 600 million copies), the Robert Galbraith Strike crime novels, and founder of the charity Lumos.
Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945, Bath) is a British children's author of over 100 books including The Story of Tracy Beaker, Children's Laureate 2005-2007, Dame Grand Cross 2025, most borrowed UK library author.
James Dashner
James Dashner, American young adult author from Georgia, creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series (The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure), also the Mortality Doctrine and Infinity Ring series; over 21 million copies sold and a $949 million film trilogy.
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen (1939–2026), American author of more than 400 books for children and adults, including Owl Moon, The Devil's Arithmetic, the How Do Dinosaurs...? series, and the Pit Dragon trilogy; called the Hans Christian Andersen of America.
Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish Jewish pediatrician and educator who ran the Dom Sierot orphanage in Warsaw and is seen as a founder of the children's rights movement.
Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds, American author of more than 20 books for children and young adults including Ghost, Long Way Down, and Look Both Ways; 2024 MacArthur Fellow, 2021 Carnegie Medal winner, and 2020-2022 US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
Jay Asher
Jay Asher (born 1975, Arcadia, California) is the American YA author of Thirteen Reasons Why (2007), later a Netflix series; also wrote The Future of Us, What Light, and Piper, and was embroiled in a 2018 SCBWI controversy he denies.
Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney (born 1971, Maryland) is the American author-illustrator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, creator of Poptropica, and owner of the bookstore An Unlikely Story in Plainville, Massachusetts; over 300 million copies in print.