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Jenny Han
Jenny Han (born 1980, Richmond, Virginia) is an American YA romance author of the To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Summer I Turned Pretty series, adapted into Netflix films and the Prime Video and Netflix series she showruns via Jenny Kissed Me.
Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri, born Johanna Heusser (1827–1901), was a Swiss writer who began publishing at 44 and wrote Heidi, one of the world's most translated children's classics.
John Green
John Green (born 1977, Indianapolis) is the American #1 NYT bestselling author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, of nonfiction including Everything is Tuberculosis, and of the 2026 adult debut Hollywood, Ending; co-creator of Vlogbrothers and Crash Course, distinct from the cartoonist John Green.
Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac (born 1942) is an American poet, storyteller, and writer of Abenaki heritage whose more than 180 books center on Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Judith Kerr
Judith Kerr, aka Anna Judith Helene Kerr, was a German-born British writer and illustrator (1923–2019), creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, the Mog series, and the exile trilogy Out of the Hitler Time.
Judith Viorst
Judith Viorst (born 1931) is an American author of the classic picture book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, the bestseller Necessary Losses, humorous verse, and books on aging.
Judy Blume
Judy Blume (born 1938, Elizabeth, New Jersey) is the American author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Forever ..., and 29 books selling over 93 million copies; also known as one of the most frequently banned US authors.
Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson, born 1948, is a British children's writer best known for The Gruffalo (1999), UK Children's Laureate from 2011 to 2013, and made a Dame in 2026.
Julie Berry
Julie Berry (born 1974, Medina, New York) is an American YA and children's author of Lovely War (2020 Walden and Golden Kite winner, NYT bestseller) and Printz Honor book The Passion of Dolssa; she also owns the indie bookstore Author's Note.
Julie Murphy (author)
Julie Murphy (born 1985) is the American #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin', adapted into a Netflix film; she writes YA, middle grade, picture books, and adult romance, including the Christmas Notch series with Sierra Simone and Let Them Stare with Jonathan Van Ness.
Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo (born 1964), also published as Katherine DiCamillo, is an American children's author and two-time Newbery Medalist living in Minneapolis, known for Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, and Flora & Ulysses.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt (born 1989), American author and animal advocate, daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, wife of Chris Pratt; wrote Rock What You've Got, The Gift of Forgiveness, and children's books, hosts BDA Baby.
Kazumi Yumoto
Kazumi Yumoto (湯本香樹実) is a Japanese author of children's novels and picture books known for treating death and grief; her first novel, The Friends, won the 1997 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award.
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932), Scottish-born British writer and Bank of England Secretary, author of The Wind in the Willows (1908), Pagan Papers, The Golden Age, Dream Days, and The Reluctant Dragon.
L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), American author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and 13 Oz sequels; also Father Goose, His Book, the 1902 stage musical, and the Oz Film Manufacturing Company.
L. J. Smith (author)
L. J. Smith (1958–2025), whose full name was Lisa Jane Smith, was an American writer of young adult fiction known for The Vampire Diaries and Night World. Her publisher describes her as.
Lani Wendt Young
Lani Wendt Young, born 1973, is a Samoan writer and publisher known for the Telesā young adult fantasy series, the first series of YA novels set in Samoa.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), American author of the Little House series (1932–1943), fiction based on her frontier childhood; written with editor-daughter Rose Wilder Lane; The First Four Years posthumous 1971.
Leela Majumdar
Leela Majumdar (Bengali: লীলা মজুমদার, 1908–2007) was an Indian Bengali writer of more than 125 children's books who co-edited the magazine Sandesh for decades and won the Rabindra Puraskar.
Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo (born 1975) is an Israeli-American fantasy author, creator of the Grishaverse (Shadow and Bone, Six of Crows, King of Scars), the Ninth House trilogy, The Familiar, and The Invisible Parade, adapted as a Netflix series.
Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket, also known as Lemony Snicket of A Series of Unfortunate Events, is Daniel Handler's pen name and fictional narrator persona, author of the 13-volume Baudelaire orphan saga (1999–2006) plus All the Wrong Questions and The Dark.
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), Oxford mathematician at Christ Church, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, logician, photographer, and voting theorist.
List of children's literature writers
List of children's literature writers: compilations of authors and illustrators for children and young adults, from Comenius, the Grimms, Carroll, and Alcott to Seuss, Sendak, and Carle, organized by age, nationality, or era, and documented in Something About the Author and the CLCD database.
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg, 1937) is an American children's and young adult author, two-time Newbery Medal winner for Number the Stars and The Giver, creator of the Giver quartet and Anastasia Krupnik series.
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar (born 1954) is an American children's author, creator of the Wayside School series and Holes, which won the 1998 National Book Award and 1999 Newbery Medal; his first adult novel is The Magician of Tiger Castle (2025).
Lucy Hawking
Lucy Hawking, British journalist and children's author born 1969 (Goodreads: 1970), daughter of Stephen Hawking, co-creator of the seven-book George's Secret Key science series and the Princess Olivia climate series.
Lygia Bojunga
Lygia Bojunga, born in 1932, is a Brazilian children's author known for A Bolsa Amarela and the first Brazilian to win both the Hans Christian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren awards.
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007), American author of A Wrinkle in Time, the 1963 Newbery Medal winner and first book of the Time Quintet; wrote more than 60 books blending science fiction, family life, and Christian faith.
Mahmoud Kianoush
Mahmoud Kianoush (محمود کیانوش, 1934–2021) was an Iranian poet, writer, and translator known as the founder of children's poetry in Iran; he moved to London in 1974.
Mahmoud Shukair
Mahmoud Shukair (محمود شقير; born 1941 in Jabal al-Mukabbar, Jerusalem) is a Palestinian writer of stories, novels, and children's books, winner of the 2011 Mahmoud Darwish Prize.