List of young adult authors
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[edit] A
- Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back
- Richard Adams: Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs
- Lloyd Alexander: Prydain Chronicles, Westmark, Kestral, The Beggar Queen
- David Almond: Kit's Wilderness
- Elaine M. Alphin: Counterfeit Son
- Julia Alvarez: Before We Were Free, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Yo!
- Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak
- Kim Antieau: Mercy, Unbound
- Maya Angelou (primarily a poet): I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Heart of a Woman
- Allen Appel, Twice Upon a Time
- Avi: Nothing But the Truth, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
[edit] B
- Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
- Lauren Barnholdt: Reality Chick
- John Marsden: Tomorrow series
- T.A. Barron: The Ancient One
- Lynda Barry, cartoonist, graphic novelist
- Lois Thompson Bartholomew: The White Dove
- Joan Bauer: Rules of the Road, Squashed, Stand Tall
- Martin Bertram: Vanity of Vanities
- Holly Black - The Spiderwick Chonicles, Tithe, Valiant
- Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Baby Be-Bop, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
- Judy Blume: Forever, Tiger Eyes
- Robin F. Brancato: Facing Up, Winning
- Ann Brashares: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Heather Brewer: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series.
- Lauren Brooke: Heartland and Chestnut Hill series.
- Kevin Brooks: Candy
- Eve Bunting: A Sudden Silence
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy.
[edit] C
- Meg Cabot: The Princess Diaries, All-American Girl
- Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn Chronicles, Legendsong Saga
- Michael Chabon (primarily an author of adult fiction): Summerland
- Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Alice Childress: A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich
- Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
- Mary Higgins Clark (primarily an author of adult romance/mystery fiction)
- Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver: Where the Lillies Bloom
- Brock Cole: The Goats
- Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl
- Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier: My Brother Sam is Dead
- Ellen Conford: We Interrupt this Semester for an Important Bulletin
- Pam Conrad: My Daniel
- Caroline B. Cooney: The Face on the Milk Carton, Twenty Pageants Later, Driver's Ed
- Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising series
- Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War, After the First Death, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Fade, I Am the Cheese, Tenderness, We All Fall Down
- Sharon Creech: Walk Two Moons
- Linda Crew: Children of the River
- Chris Crutcher: Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Stotan!, Whaletalk
- Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963, Bud Not Buddy
- Karen Cushman: Catherine Called Birdy
[edit] D
- Roald Dahl (primarily an author of adult fiction): Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach
- Linden Dalecki: Kid B
- Maureen Daly: Seventeenth Summer
- Paula Danziger: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The Divorce Express
- Terry Davis: Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, If Rock & Roll Were a Machine
- Sarah Dessen: Dreamland, Keeping the Moon The Truth About Forever
- Carl Deuker: Heart of a Champion and other sports stories
- Kate Dicamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie
- Peter Dickinson: Eva
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the Sherlock Holmes stories, which were written initially for an adult readership
- Ann Downer: The Spellkey, The Glass Salamander, The Books of the Keepers
- Diane Duane: Young Wizards series
- Lois Duncan: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, Summer of Fear
[edit] F
- Nancy Farmer: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm; House of the Scorpion
- Sharon G. Flake: The Skin I'm In, Money Hungry
- Paul Fleischman: Whirligig
- Alex Flinn: Breathing Underwater
- Antonia Forest: Peter's Room; Thuggery Affair; The Attic Term
- Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
- E. R. Frank: Wrecked
- Valerie Frankel: Fringe Girl
- Paula Fox: One-Eyed Cat, The Slave Dancer
- Benedict & Nancy Freedman: Mrs. Mike
- Russell Freedman: Lincoln: a Photobiography, The Life and Death of Crazy Horse, Eleanor Roosevelt: a Life Discovered and other nonfiction
[edit] G
- Jack Gantos: Joey Pigza stories, Hole in My Life (autobiography of his youth)
- Nancy Garden: Annie on My Mind, The Year They Burned the Books
- Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Elidor, The Owl Service, Red Shift
- Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain, Julie
- Gail Giles: Shattering Glass
- Parke Godwin: The Tower of Beowulf
- John Green: Looking for Alaska
- Bette Greene: Summer of My German Soldier
- Rosa Guy: The Friends, The Disappearance
[edit] H
- Margaret Peterson Haddix: Among the Hidden, Among the Imposters and sequels
- Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Shannon Hale; Princess Academy
- Lisi Harrison: The Clique
- James Haskins (primarily an author of non-fiction): Fighting Shirley Chisolm, The Geography of Hope
- Louise Hawes: The Vanishing Point, Waiting for Christopher, Rosey in the Present Tense
- Pete Hautman Godless, Invisible
- Ann Head: Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
- Robert A. Heinlein: (primarily an author of science fiction) Red Planet
- Nat Hentoff (primarily an author of adult non-fiction): Does This School Have Capital Punishment?
- Julie Hearn: The Minister's Daughter
- Karen Hesse: Out of the Dust, Witness (novels in verse)
- Carl Hiaasen: Hoot and Flush
- S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders, Rumblefish, Tex
- Valerie Hobbs: Defiance (novel)
- Will Hobbs: Bearstone, Far North, Ghost Canoe, Kokopelli's Flute, Jackie's Wild Seattle, Crossing the Wire
- Alice Hoffman: Green Angel
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman: (primarily an author of science fiction)
- Jennifer Holm: Newbery Honor Book Our Only May Amelia, Boston Jane
- Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
[edit] J
- Brian Jacques: Redwall and sequels
- Paul B. Janeczeko, editor of poetry anthologies for teens, e.g. Don't Forget to Fly
- Angela Johnson: Heaven
[edit] K
- Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie
- M.E. Kerr: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Little Little, Night Kites, Deliver Us from Evie, Fell, Gentlehands
- Stephen King (primarily an author of adult horror fiction): Carrie, Christine, Cujo
- Gordon Korman: Bruno and Boots series beginning with This Can't Be Happening at McDonald Hall; Jake, Reinvented
- David Klass: Danger Zone, You Don't Know Me
- Annette Curtis Klause: The Silver Kiss, Blood and Chocolate
- E.L. Konigsburg: Silent to the Bone
- Ron Koertge: Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright
[edit] L
- Kathryn Lasky: Beyond the Burning Time, True North
- Ursula K. Le Guin (equally an author of adult fiction): A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness and other science fiction titles
- Billie Letts: Where The Heart Is
- Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, Polly O'Keefe series, Austin family series, etc.
- Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted
- Lori Lansens: The Girls: A Novel
- Gail Carson Levine; The Wish
- C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia series
- Robert Lipsyte: The Brave, The Chief, The Contender, One Fat Summer
- Wendy Loggia: Ever After: A Cinderella Story
- Lois Lowry: The Giver, The Silent Boy, Number the Stars.
- Louisa Luna: Brave New Girl
- Chris Lynch: Whitechurch
[edit] M
- Adeline Yen Mah: Falling Leaves: The Memoirs of A Unwanted Chinese Daughter, Chinese Cinderella : The True Story of A Unwanted Daughter, Chinese Cinderella and The Secret Dragon Society
- Melina Marchetta Saving Francesca
- Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country
- Sue Mayfield: Drowning Anna
- Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern series and other fantasy titles
- Patricia McCord (formerly Pat Mauser) - Pictures in the Dark
- Joyce McDonald: Swallowing Stones, Shadow People, Shades of Simon Gray
- Robin McKinley: Beauty, The Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End
- Norma and Harry Mazer: Heartbeat
- Ben Mikaelsen: Petey, Touching Spirit Bear
- Milton Meltzer (primarily an author of nonfiction): Underground Man (historical fiction)
- Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
- Gloria D. Miklowitz: After the Bomb
- Jaclyn Moriarty: The Year Of Secret Assignments, Feeling Sorry For Celia: A Novel
- Walter Dean Myers: Fallen Angels, Hoops, Monster, The Mouse Rap, Outside Shot, Scorpions, Slam, Bad Boy (autobiography of his youth), Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
- Lauren Myracle: ttyl, ttfn, Rhymes with Witches]
[edit] N
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Ice, Shiloh
- Joan Lowery Nixon: The Other Side of Dark
- Andre Norton (pseudonym): The Stars Are Ours, Star Gate, other science fiction
[edit] O
- Joyce Carol Oates (primarily an author of adult fiction): Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
- Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Sean Olin: Killing Britney
- Zibby Oneal: The Language of Goldfish
[edit] P
- Linda Sue Park: A Single Shard, When My Name Was Keoko
- Francine Pascal: Sweet Valley High Senior Year
- Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved, Lyddie
- Gary Paulsen: Hatchet, Canyons, The Island, The River, Brian's Winter, Nightjohn, Sarney, Soldier's Heart, Dogsong
- Richard Peck: Are You in the House Alone?, Father Figure, The Last Safe Place on Earth, Long Way from Chicago, Princess Ashley, Year Down Yonder
- Robert Newton Peck: Clunie, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Extra Innings
- Julie Anne Peters: "Keeping You A Secret", "Define Normal"
- Rodman Philbrick: Freak the Mighty, The Fire Pony
- Christopher Pike (author): The Season of Passage, Chain Letter and other thrillers
- Tamara Pierce: Alanna: The First Adventure, Emperor Mage, Protector of the Small: Squire
- Connie Porter: Imani All Mine
- Francine Prose (primarily an author of adult fiction): After
- Philip Pullman: Ruby in the Smoke, Broken Bridge, The White Mercedes, The Tin Princess, His Dark Materials trilogy, I Was a Rat!
[edit] R
- Ellen Raskin: "The Westing Game", "Figgs & Phantoms".
- Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows
- Carolyn Reeder: Shades of Gray
- Celia Rees: Witch Child, Sorceress
- Ann Rinaldi: A Break for Charity, The Last Silk Dress, Numbering All the Bones, Wolf by the Ears, and other historical fiction
- Thomas Rockwell: How To Eat Fried Worms
- Liz Rosenberg: "Heart and Soul", "17: A Novel in Prose Poems"
- J.K. Rowling: the Harry Potter series: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- Cynthia Rylant: Missing May
[edit] S
- Louis Sachar: Holes
- Graham Salisbury: Shark Bait, Island Boyz: Short Stories, Lord of the Deep, Under the Blood-Red Sun, Jungle Dogs
- Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say
- Kieran Scott: I Was A Non-Blonde Cheerleader
- Lisa See: Snow Flower and The Secret Fan
- Dyan Sheldon: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
- Neal Shusterman: The Dark Side of Nowhere, Downsiders, What Daddy Did
- William Sleator: House of Stairs, Singularity, The Boy Who Reversed Himself, Intersteller Pig (primarily high concept sci-fi)
- Lemony Snicket (pseudonym): The A Series of Unfortunate Events series
- Sonya Sones: What My Mother Doesn't Know
- Gary Soto: Afterlife, Baseball in April and other Stories
- Beatrice Sparks (publishing as 'Anonymous'): Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal and others
- Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Jerry Spinelli: There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, Crash
- Nancy Springer: I am Mordred, I am Morgan le Fay
- R.L. Stine (primarily an author of YA thriller fiction): Goosebumps and Fear Street series
- Rosemary Sutcliff: (primarily an author of historical fiction): The Eagle of the Ninth
[edit] T
- Janet Tashjian: The Gospel According to Larry
- Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, The Land
- Jean Thesman: Appointment with a Stranger, Cattail Moon
- Joyce Carol Thomas: Marked by Fire
- Vivian Vande Velde: Heir Apparent, Never Trust a Dead Man
[edit] V
- Susan Vaught - Stormwitch, Trigger
- Cynthia Voigt: Come a Stranger, Dicey's Song, Homecoming, Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Solitary Blue, Sons from Afar
[edit] W
- Sarah Weeks: So B. It
- Rosemary Wells: Through the Hidden Door
- Nancy Werlin: The Killer's Cousin
- Scott Westerfeld - Midnighters trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, Uglies trilogy
- Elie Wiesel: Night
- Ellen Wittlinger: Heart on My Sleeve, Hard Love, What's in A Name
- Virginia Euwer Wolff: True Believer,"Making Lemonade"
- Jacqueline Woodson: Miracle's Boys
- Patricia C. Wrede: Enchanted Forest Chronicles
- Richard Wright (primarily an author of works for adults): Black Boy (autobiography of his youth)
- Diana Wynne Jones: Chrestomanci series, Dalemark Quartet, Dogsbody, Eight Days of Luke, Fire and Hemlock, Power of Three
[edit] Y
- Laurence Yep
- Jane Yolen: Heart's Blood, Briar Rose
- David Yoo: Girls for Breakfast
[edit] Z
- Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere
- Paul Zindel: The Pigman, The Pigman's Legacy, I Never Loved Your Mind, My Darling My Hamburger, The Pigman's Legacy (autobiography of his youth)