E. B. White
American writer
american children’s writers
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American writer, mostly known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children’s books, published between 1932 and 1943, which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.During the 1970s and early 1980s, the television series Little House on the Prairie was loosely based on the Little House books, and starred Melissa Gilbert as Laura and Michael Landon as her father, Charles Ingalls.
John Updike
American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Gertrude Chandler Warner
American author, mainly of children’s stories
Kay Thompson
American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer
Roderick Townley
American author of juvenile, young adult, and adult books, including books of poetry, nonfiction, and literary criticism
Amy Tan
American author known for the novel The Joy Luck Club, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993 by director Wayne Wang
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-born Jewish-American writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help of editors and collaborators
William Steig
American cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children’s books, best known for the picture book Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name, as well as others that included Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel’s Island, and Doctor De Soto
Toni Morrison
American novelist