Favorite Authors

A few web sites of interest about some great authors. Biographies, information about their work, and in some cases, a chance to contact them directly.

• Avi, author of Blue Heron, Wolf Rider, A Place Called Ugly, and many more for various ages.
• T.A. Barron, author of the Lost Years of Merlin series and others.
• Hilari Bell, author of Songs of Power and A Matter of Profit. 
• Judy Blume, author of Forever; Tiger Eyes; Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret; Summer Sisters and many more.
• Terry Brooks, author of many books of both serious and funny fantasy and science fiction.
• Eve Bunting, author of Ghost of Summer; Face at the Edge of the World; The Haunting of Safekeep; The Ghosts of Departure Pointand many more. 
• Diane Duane, author of So You Want to Be a Wizard and many others.
• Lois Duncan, author of Killing Mr. Griffin; Down a Dark Hall; The Third Eye; Trapped; I Know What You Did Last Summer, as well as other suspense novels.
• Sylvia Louise Engdahl, author of The Doors of the Universe; Enchantress From the Stars and other stories of science fiction and fantasy.
• Neil Gaiman, author of the Sandman graphic novels, Stardust,Neverwhere, and many others.
• Virginia Hamilton, author of many novels and collector of traditional folktales, her books include: The People Could Fly; House of Dies Drear; The Dark Way; M.C. Higgins the Great; Plain City.
• Diana Wynne Jones, author of Fire and Hemlock; A Tale of Time City; Eight Days  of Luke, and a variety of other fantasy or science fiction novels.
• M.E. Kerr, author of Night Kites, "Hello," I Lied, and Linger, and various other novels about real life.
• Lois Lowry, author of A Summer to Die; Rabble Starkey; Anastasia's Chosen Career; The Giver. Winner of many awards.
• Robin McKinley, author of Beauty; The Blue Sword; The Hero and the Crown. Newbery Award winner.
• Walter Dean Myers, author of Fallen Angels; Scorpions; The Mouse Rap; The Glory Field, and many others.
• Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, author of Send No Blessings; All But Alice; The Fear Place and others.
• Katherine Paterson, author of Jacob Have I Loved; The Master Puppeteer; Lyddie and others.
• Gary Paulsen, author of The Voyage of the Frog; The River; The Haymeadow and others.
• Tamora Pierce, author of the Alanna series and other fantasy novels.
• Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld novels.
• J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series.
• Sherwood Smith, author and co-author of sf and fantasy novels.
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder, author of Until the Celebration; Below the Root; The Birds of Summer; Libby on Wednesdays; Cat Runningand others
• Jane Yolen, author of a wide variety of books for all ages, includingArmageddon Summer, The Devil's Arithmetic and the Dragon's Blood series.