List of young adult writers
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[edit] A
- Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back
- Hailey Abbott: The Secrets of Boys
- Richard Adams: Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs
- Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Eight Cousins
- Lloyd Alexander: The Prydain Chronicles, Westmark, The Kestrel, The Beggar Queen
- Isabel Allende: The Adventures of Eagle and Jaguar series: City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, and Forest of the Pygmies
- David Almond: Kit's Wilderness, Heaven Eyes, Clay
- Elaine M. Alphin: Counterfeit Son
- Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Yo!, Before We Were Free
- Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak, Fever 1793, Catalyst, Prom, Twisted
- M. T. Anderson: Feed
- Ann Angel: Such A Pretty Face, Short Stories About Beauty
- Kim Antieau: Mercy, Unbound
- Maya Angelou (primarily a poet): I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Heart of a Woman
- Allen Appel, Twice Upon a Time
- Avi: Nothing But the Truth, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
[edit] B
- Barbara Bailey: When I Get Older I'll Understand
- Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
- Andrew M. Barbolla: Caged
- Lauren Barnholdt: Reality Chick
- T.A. Barron: The Ancient One
- Lynda Barry, cartoonist, graphic novelist
- Lois Thompson Bartholomew: The White Dove
- Cat Bauer: Harley's Ninth; Harley, Like a Person
- Joan Bauer: Rules of the Road, Squashed, Stand Tall, Hope Was Here
- Clare Bell: Ratha's Creature, Clan Ground, Ratha and Thistle-chaser, Ratha's Challenge, Ratha's Courage, Tomorrow's Sphinx
- Sean Beaudoin: Going Nowhere Faster
- Martin Bertram: Vanity of Vanities
- Holly Black: The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant, Ironside
- Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses series
- Cynthia Blair: The Banana Split Affair, Freedom to Dream
- Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Baby Be-Bop, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
- Judy Blume: Forever, Tiger Eyes, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
- Tim Bowler: Apocalypse, Starseeker
- Robin F. Brancato: Facing Up, Winning
- Ann Brashares: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Libba Bray: A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing
- Heather Brewer: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series
- Lauren Brooke: Heartland and Chestnut Hill series
- Kevin Brooks: Candy, Martyn Pig, The Road of the Dead
- Martha Brooks: Mistik Lake
- Alyssa Brugman: Walking Naked
- Eve Bunting: A Sudden Silence
- Niki Burnham: Royally Jacked, Sticky Fingers
- Melvin Burgess: Junk, Doing It
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy
[edit] C
- Meg Cabot: The Mediator, The Princess Diaries, All-American Girl, Jinx
- Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
- Rachel Caine: Glass Houses, The Dead Girls Dance, Midnight Alley
- Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn Chronicles, Legendsong Saga
- Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
- Brian Caswell: A Cage of Butterflies, Only the Heart, Double Exposure
- Michael Chabon (primarily an author of adult fiction): Summerland
- Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Alice Childress: A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
- Mark Childress: One Mississippi, Crazy In Alabama
- Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
- Cassandra Clare: City of Bones
- Mary Higgins Clark (primarily an author of adult romance/mystery fiction)
- Terri Clark: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Sleepless
- Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver: Where the Lilies Bloom
- Rachel Cohn: Gingerbread
- Brock Cole: The Goats
- Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl, The Wish List
- 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, Both Sides of Time, 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
- Ronald Cree: Desert Blood 10pm/9c
- Sharon Creech: Walk Two Moons, Bloomability, The Wanderer, Chasing Redbird, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Ruby Holler
- Linda Crew: Children of the River
- Chris Crutcher: Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whale Talk, The Sledding Hill
- Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, Bud Not Buddy
- Karen Cushman: Catherine, Called Birdy
[edit] D
- Roald Dahl: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, The Great Automatic Grammatizator
- 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
- Thomas F. Dawn: The Crystal Dream
- Pamela Dean: Tam Lin, The Secret Country trilogy, The Dubious Hills
- Sarah Dessen: Dreamland, Keeping the Moon, The Truth About Forever
- Carl Deuker: Heart of a Champion, Runner, Gym Candy
- Graham Diamond The Thief of Kalimar, Lady of the Haven
- Kate Dicamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux
- Peter Dickinson: The Dancing Bear, Tulku, Eva, AK, The Ropemaker
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the Sherlock Holmes stories, written initially for adults
- 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] E
- Michael Robert Evans: 68 Knots
- Chris Edwards: Bull Rider
[edit] F
- Nancy Farmer: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm; The House of the Scorpion; The Sea of Trolls
- Catherine Fisher: The Book of the Crow, The Oracle Prophecies Trilogy, Darkhenge, Corbenic
- Sharon G. Flake: The Skin I'm In, Money Hungry
- Paul Fleischman: Whirligig, A Fate Totally Worse than Death
- Alex Flinn: Breathing Underwater
- Antonia Forest: Peter's Room; Thuggery Affair; The Attic Term
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- E. R. Frank: Wrecked
- Valerie Frankel: Fringe Girl
- Paula Fox: One-Eyed Cat, The Slave Dancer
- Jan Frazier: A Glimpse of the Netherworld, Ghost of a Chance, The Starlight Laser Express, Ghost in Blue
- Mariah Fredericks: In the Cards: Love, Crunch Time, The True Meaning of Cleavage, Head Games, The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot, Fatal Distraction
- 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
- Cornelia Funke: Inkheart, The Thief Lord, Dragon Rider
[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, An Abundance of Katherines
- Bette Greene: Summer of My German Soldier
- Suresh & Jyoti Guptara: Conspiracy of Calaspia (Insanity Saga)
- Rosa Guy: The Friends, The Disappearance
[edit] H
- Nancy Yi Fan : Swordbird
- Margaret Peterson Haddix: Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors
- Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Shannon Hale: Princess Academy
- Zoey Hardy: Everything Changes, Brockway High, But It's Legal
- Lisi Harrison: The Clique
- Sonya Hartnett: The Silver Donkey
- 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
- Claire Hennessy: Dear Diary
- 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, Rumble Fish, Tex
- Valerie Hobbs: Defiance
- Will Hobbs: Bearstone, Far North, Ghost Canoe, Kokopelli's Flute, Jackie's Wild Seattle, Crossing the Wire, Downriver
- Alice Hoffman: Green Angel
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman: (primarily an author of science fiction)
- Jennifer Holm: Our Only May Amelia, Boston Jane
- Samyra Huell: Wesslox: The Adventure Begin, The Sorcerer
- Erin Hunter: The Warriors series, the New Prophecy series, The Power of Three
- Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
[edit] J
- Brian Jacques: Redwall series
- Paul B. Janeczko, editor of poetry anthologies for teens, e.g. Don't Forget to Fly
- Anthony Charles Jenkins: The Grave Thrillogy and Dark Threshold
- Maureen Johnson: 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Girl at Sea, Suite Scarlett
- Angela Johnson: Toning the Sweep, Heaven, The First Part Last
- Ophelia Julien: Dead of Summer and Saving Jake.
[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, No More Dead Dogs, Sixth Grade Nickname Game
- 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
- Lori Lansens: The Girls: A Novel
- Kathryn Lasky: Blood Secret, Beyond the Burning Time, True North
- Iain Lawrence: Lord of the Nutcracker Men
- Michael Lawrence: Aldous Lexicon or Withern Rise trilogy
- Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness
- Madeleine L'Engle: The Time Quartet, Polly O'Keefe series, Austin family series
- Jeanine Le Ny: Island Summer, Kaplan's SAT Score-Raising Dictionary, 101 Ways To Become the Perfect College Applicant
- Tanith Lee: The Castle of Dark, The Claidi Journals, Piratica
- Billie Letts: Where The Heart Is
- Gail Carson Levine: The Wish, Ella Enchanted
- David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy, The Realm of Possibility
- C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia series
- Mark Lewis: Slur: Silencing the Voice of Hatred
- Robert Lipsyte: The Contender, The Brave, The Chief, One Fat Summer
- Wendy Loggia: Ever After: A Cinderella Story (novelization)
- Lois Lowry: The Giver, The Silent Boy, Number the Stars, Gathering Blue
- Dale J. Luckwitz: Jinxed
- Louisa Luna: Brave New Girl
- Mary Beth Lundgren: Love, Sara
- Barry Lyga: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Boy Toy
- Chris Lynch: Whitechurch
- Frances Lynn: Crushed
[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
- Carolyn Mackler: The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, Vegan Virgin Valentine, Love and Other Four Letter Words
- Sarra Manning: Let's Get Lost, Fashionistas series, Diary Of A Crush series, Pretty Things, Guitar Girl
- Melina Marchetta: Looking For Alibrandi, Saving Francesca
- Jan Mark: The Eclipse of the Century, Useful Idiots, Riding Tycho, Voyager
- John Marsden: Tomorrow series
- Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country
- Sue Mayfield: Drowning Anna
- Norma Fox Mazer and Harry Mazer: Heartbeat
- Stephenie Meyer: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse
- Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern series and other fantasy titles
- Patricia McCord (formerly Pat Mauser) - Pictures in the Dark
- Patricia McCormick: Cut, My Brother's Keeper
- Lurlene McDaniel: One Last Wish, Hit and Run, Don't Die, My Love, Till Death Do Us Part
- Joyce McDonald: Swallowing Stones, Shadow People, Shades of Simon Gray
- Robin McKinley: Beauty, The Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End, Rose Daughter
- Ben Mikaelsen: Petey, Touching Spirit Bear
- Milton Meltzer (primarily an author of nonfiction): Underground Man (historical fiction)
- Gloria D. Miklowitz: After the Bomb
- Sabre Moore : Secrets At Sea
- Jaclyn Moriarty: The Year of Secret Assignments, Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
- Jess Mowry: Way Past Cool, Babylon Boyz
- Robert Muchamore: CHERUB series
- 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, l8r, g8r, Rhymes with Witches
[edit] N
- Donna Jo Napoli: Daughter of Venice, Bound
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Ice, Shiloh
- Betty Nelson: Mystery of the Vanishing Trees, Secret of the Old Trunk
- William Nicholson: Wind on Fire trilogy
- Joan Lowery Nixon: The Other Side of Dark
- Andre Norton (primarily an author of science fiction): The Stars are Ours!, Star Gate, The Beast Master
[edit] O
- Joyce Carol Oates (primarily an author of adult fiction): Big Mouth & Ugly Girl, Sexy
- Tyne O'Connell: The Calypso Chronicles - Pulling Princes, Stealing Princes, Duelling Princes, Dumping Princes and True Love, The Sphinx and Other Unsolvable Riddles
- Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Sean Olin: Killing Britney
- Zibby Oneal: The Language of Goldfish, A Formal Feeling, In Summer Light
[edit] P
- Christopher Paolini: Inheritance Cycle
- Linda Sue Park: A Single Shard, When My Name Was Keoko
- Francine Pascal: Sweet Valley Senior Year
- Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved, Lyddie
- Gary Paulsen: Hatchet, Canyons, The Island, The River, Brian's Winter, Nightjohn, Sarny, Soldier's Heart, Dogsong
- Richard Peck: Are You in the House Alone?, Father Figure, The Last Safe Place on Earth, A Long Way from Chicago, Princess Ashley, A Year Down Yonder
- Robert Newton Peck: Clunie, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Extra Innings
- Julie Anne Peters: Keeping You a Secret, Define Normal
- Stella Pevsner: And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine, Cute is a Four-Letter Word
- Rodman Philbrick: Freak the Mighty, The Fire Pony
- Christopher Pike: The Season of Passage, Chain Letter and other thrillers
- Tamora Pierce: The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, Protector of the Small, Trickster's Choice
- Timothy Plant: Beyond the Wall
- Laura Preble: Lica's Angel, Queen Geek Social Club, Queen Geeks in Love
- Susan Price: The Sterkarm Handshake, A Sterkarm Kiss, Odin's Voice, Odin's Queen
- Connie Porter: Imani All Mine
- Francine Prose (primarily an author of adult fiction): After
- Philip Pullman: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Broken Bridge, The White Mercedes, The Tin Princess, His Dark Materials trilogy, I was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers
[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, The Wish House, Pirates!
- Philip Reeve: Mortal Engines Quartet, Larklight, Starcross, Here Lies Arthur
- Morton Rhue: The Wave, Asphalt Tribe
- Ann Rinaldi: A Break with Charity, The Last Silk Dress, Numbering All the Bones, Wolf by the Ears
- Thomas Rockwell: How To Eat Fried Worms, How to Fight a Girl
- Ginny Rorby: Dolphin Sky, Hurt Go Happy
- Liz Rosenberg: Heart and Soul, 17: A Novel in Prose Poems
- J. K. Rowling: The Harry Potter series
- Lois Ruby: Shanghai Shadows
- Cynthia Rylant: Missing May
[edit] S
- Louis Sachar: Holes, Small Steps
- J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
- Graham Salisbury: Shark Bait, Island Boyz, Lord of the Deep, Under the Blood Red Sun, Jungle Dogs, Eyes of the Emperor
- Lynda Sandoval: Who's Your Daddy, Chicks Ahoy
- Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say, Getting It, The God Box
- Kieran Scott: I Was A Non-Blonde Cheerleader, Geek Magnet
- Lisa See: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- Marcus Sedgwick: The Book of Dead Days, The Dark Flight Down, Blood Red, Snow White
- Dyan Sheldon: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
- Neal Shusterman: The Dark Side of Nowhere, Downsiders, The Schwa Was Here, Full Tilt
- Jeanne Sievert; Foolish Diversion: A Triple T and Herman Mystery
- Marilyn Singer: The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth, Horsemaster
- William Sleator (primarily high concept sci-fi): House of Stairs, Singularity, The Boy Who Reversed Himself, Interstellar Pig
- Lemony Snicket: The Series of Unfortunate Events series
- Sonya Sones: What My Mother Doesn't Know, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
- Gary Soto: The Afterlife, Baseball in April and other Stories, Living Up the Street
- Beatrice Sparks (publishing as 'Anonymous'): Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal
- Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- Eleanor Spence: The October Child, A Candle for St. Antony
- Jerry Spinelli: There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, Crash, Stargirl
- Nancy Springer: I am Mordred, I am Morgan le Fay, Blood Trail, Dussie
- R. L. Stine: The Fear Street series
- Jonathan Stroud: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Leap
- Rosemary Sutcliff: (primarily historical fiction): The Eagle of the Ninth, Warrior Scarlet
- Darren Shan: The Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak) series, The Demonata series
[edit] T
- Janet Tashjian: The Gospel According to Larry, Vote for Larry
- Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land
- Dr. Joyce W. Teal: Don't Sweat It, Kid, Hang In There, Kid, It's O.K. To Be Different
- Jean Thesman: Appointment with a Stranger, Cattail Moon, Calling the Swan, A Sea So Far
- Jacquelin Thomas: Simply Divine, Divine Confidential, Divine Secrets
- Joyce Carol Thomas: Marked by Fire
- Rob Thomas: Rats Saw God
- Kate Thompson: Annan Water, The Beguilers, The New Policeman
- J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
- Terry Trueman: Stuck in Neutral
[edit] V
- Susan Vaught - Stormwitch, Trigger
- Vivian Vande Velde: Heir Apparent, User Unfriendly, Never Trust a Dead Man
- KristaLyn A. Vetovich - Enya's Light, Enya's Shadow, Enya's Judgment
- Cynthia Voigt: Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Come a Stranger, A Solitary Blue, Sons from Afar, Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Bad Girls
- Cecily von Ziegesar: The Gossip Girl series, The It Girl series
[edit] W
- Judy Waite: Shopaholic, Forbidden
- Catherine Webb: Mirror Dreams, Mirror Wakes, Timekeepers, Waywalkers
- Sarah Weeks: So B. It
- Rosemary Wells: Through the Hidden Door
- Nancy Werlin: Are You Alone on Purpose, The Killer's Cousin, Locked Inside, Black Mirror, Double Helix, The Rules of Survival
- Scott Westerfeld - Midnighters trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, Uglies series
- Elie Wiesel: Night
- Ellen Wittlinger: Heart on My Sleeve, Hard Love, What's in A Name
- Virginia Euwer Wolff: True Believer, Making Lemonade
- Katherine Wood: Gideon Biddle: Shadowwalk
- 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, Fire and Hemlock, Power of Three, Dark Lord of Derkholm, The Merlin Conspiracy
[edit] Y
- Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
- Laurence Yep: Liar Liar, The Lost Garden
- Jane Yolen: The Pit Dragon Trilogy, Briar Rose, The Devil's Arithmetic
- David Yoo: Girls for Breakfast
- Tammy Yourzek: Specter of the Spirit, Dragons of the Soul
[edit] Z
- Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere
- Paul Zindel: The Pigman, The Pigman's Legacy, I Never Loved Your Mind, My Darling, My Hamburger, The Pigman and Me (autobiography of his youth)