List of young adult writers
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[edit] A
- Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back
- Richard Adams: Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs
- Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Eight Cousin's
- 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, "Fever 1793"
- 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
- Clare Bell: Ratha's Creature, Clan Ground, Ratha and Thistle-chaser, Ratha's Challenge, Ratha's Courage (upcoming) , Tomorrow's Sphinx
- Sean Beaudoin: "Going Nowhere Faster", "Sour White"(upcoming)
- Martin Bertram: Vanity of Vanities
- Holly Black: The Spiderwick Chonicles, Tithe, Valiant
- Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses series
- Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Baby Be-Bop, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
- Judy Blume: Forever, Tiger Eyes
- Tim Bowler: Apocalypse
- 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
- Alyssa Brugman: Walking Naked
- 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
- Brian Caswell: A Cage of Butterflies, Double Exposure
- Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn Chronicles, Legendsong Saga
- Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game and sequels
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Ronald Cree: Desert Blood 10pm/9c
- 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
- 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, and other YA novels
- 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; The House of the Scorpion; The Sea of Trolls
- 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
- 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
[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
- 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, Rumblefish, Tex
- Valerie Hobbs: Defiance (novel)
- 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: 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 also, "No More Dead Dogs", "Sixth Grade Nick Name 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
- Kathryn Lasky: Beyond the Burning Time, True North
- Iain Lawrence: Lord of the Nutcracker Men
- 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
- Patricia McCormick: Cut, My Brother's Keeper
- Lurlene McDaniel: "One Last Wish", "Hit and Run", "Don't Die, My Love",
- Joyce McDonald: Swallowing Stones, Shadow People, Shades of Simon Gray
- Robin McKinley: Beauty, The Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End
- Norma Fox Mazer 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
- William Nicholson: Wind On Fire trilogy
- 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
- Christopher Paolini: Inheritance series
- 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
- 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 (author): The Season of Passage, Chain Letter and other thrillers
- Tamora 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
- 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: 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
- Marilyn Singer: I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion
- William Sleator: House of Stairs, Singularity, The Boy Who Reversed Himself, Interstellar 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
- Darren O' Shaugnessy: Cirque Du Freak Series
[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
- Rob Thomas: Rats Saw God
- 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
- Judy Waite: Shopaholic, Forbidden
- 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)
