american women 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.

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

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

Louise Fitzhugh

American writer and illustrator of children’s books, known best for the novel Harriet the Spy

Esther Forbes

American novelist, historian and children’s writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal