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James M. Deem

James M. Deem is the author of numerous books of nonfiction and fiction, including the 2009 Sibert Honor Book, Bodies from the Ice: Melting glaciers and the recovery of the past. Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, he moved to Tucson, Arizona, with his family when he was eleven. He earned a Bachelor's degree in langua....[more]

Marc Tyler Nobleman

I'm the author of more than 70 books, including "Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman." I'm also a cartoonist. I speak regularly at schools, libraries, conferences, and other venues nationwide.

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Diane Lindsey Reeves

What do you want to be when you grow up? Author Diane Lindsey Reeves has focused on answering that question in imaginative ways in dozens of books for students of all ages. Her company, Bright Futures Press, produces books and is working hard to become the place where nonfiction comes for fun. For more information, vis....[more]

Elizabeth Shreeve

Elizabeth Shreeve is the author of Oliver at the Window (Front Street/Boyds Mills, October 2009), a picture book that follows a young child’s adjustment to his parent’s divorce, and The Adventures of Hector Fuller, a chapter book series for children in grades K-3 (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2004). A graduate of Harvar....[more]

Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, History, Juvenile Nonfiction, Political Science, Technology & Engineering

Historian Stephen E. Ambrose grew up in Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin and the University of Louisiana. Ambrose is considered to be one of the foremost historical scholars of recent times and has been a professor for over three decades. He is also the founder and president of the National D-Day Muse....[more]

Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

There has never been any doubt about Poe's enormous literary significance, but, with regard to his ultimate artistic merit, there has been considerable disagreement. To some he is little more than a successful charlatan, whose literary performances are only a virtuoso's display of stunning, but finally shallow, effects....[more]

Tony Abbott

Juvenile Fiction

Tony Abbott was born January 7, 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the University of Connecticut, majoring first in music, then psychology, and finally English. He graduated with a bachelors degree in English Literature. After that, Abbott traveled to Europe before returning home and finding work in a variety of book....[more]

Yvonne Addario

Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines

Allan Ahlberg

Crafts & Hobbies, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Music

Allan Ahlberg was born in 1938 in South London, and grew up in the Black Country. He worked as a teacher, postman, grave digger, soldier and plumber's mate before he became a full-time writer. He met his wife and creative partner, Janet at teacher training college. It was because Janet wanted to illustrate a book that ....[more]

Joan Aiken

Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Psychology

Joan Delano Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex, England, on September 4, 1924, the daughter of the Pulitzer Prize winner, writer Conrad Aiken. She was raised in a rural area and home schooled by her mother until the age 12. She then attended Wychwood School, a boarding school in Oxford. Her work first appeared in 1941 when ....[more]

Jeff Albrecht

Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

Pamela Allen

Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

Judy Alter

Biography & Autobiography, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Religion

Judy Alter was born in 1938. She earned a B.A. from the University of Chicago, followed by a Ph.D. in English with special interest in the literature of the American West from Texas Christian University, and an M.Ed. in English from Truman State University. Alter is an author of books for adults and young readers. Her ....[more]