Betty MacDonald
American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I. She also wrote the Mrs
american children’s writers
Maud Hart Lovelace
American author best known for the Betsy-Tacy series.
E. L. Konigsburg
American writer and illustrator of children’s books and young adult fiction
Maurice Sendak
American illustrator and writer of children’s books
Madeleine L’Engle
American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time
Ursula K. Le Guin
American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series
Norton Juster
American academic, architect, and writer
MacKinlay Kantor
American journalist, novelist and screenwriter
Crockett Johnson
Pen name of the American cartoonist and children’s book illustrator David Johnson Leisk
Russell Hoban
American expatriate writer