Author Listings (Literary Criticism & Collections)
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| Alma Flor Ada, Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, has devoted her life to advocacy for peace by promoting a pedagogy oriented to personal realization and social justice. A former Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University and Fulbright Research Scholar she is an internationally r....[more] |
| Writes and illustrates books for children, primarily picture books and early-reader chapter books. The subject matter tends to be childhood social-issues oriented:
Shyness & Moving Away (A Tiger Called Thomas),
Friendship & Feeling left out (I'm Not Invited?),
Practice and Perseverance (Our Marching Band),
Diffi....[more] |
| In 1996, Veronica Chambers wrote Mama's Girl, a memoir about growing up. Mama's Girl was a Book of the Month Club selection and an American Library Association Best Book of 1996. In 1991, she co-wrote her first book Poetic Justice: Filmmaking South Central Style with film-maker John Singleton. She had interviewed John ....[more] |
| Jennifer Fandel has published more than 30 children and young adult nonfiction books, including biographies of inspirational figures, cultural histories of major inventions and icons, a how-to-write poetry series, and graphic novels on historical figures and inventions. Her book THE LIGHT BULB received the Bologna Raga....[more] |
| Katherine A. Gleason has approximately thirty books to her credit, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft (co-authored with Denise Zimmermann). In addition to adult books, she has written numerous books for young people. She particularly enjoys researching books about animals, science, and far awa....[more] |
| Sometimes, during author visits in schools and libraries, children ask me when I started writing. When I was five years old, I tell them. And that's the truth. I'd dream up poems for birthday presents and plays for backyard production. When my mom read me a story, I never wanted it to end. I'd make up more chapters and....[more] |
| Writer, professor, and photographer Julius Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 27, 1939. He received a B.A. in English from Fisk University in 1960. Lester's photographs from the civil rights movement era have been exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution and are part of Howard University's permanent coll....[more] |
| Sharon Linnéa is an award-winning biographer, novelist, and one of the top inspiration journalists in the country.
She is pleased to announce the publication of These Violent Delights, the first of the Movie Murder mysteries, in the Spring of 2012!
The other big news is that the first three Eden Thrillers, Chasin....[more] |
| Valerie Marsh is the author of thirteen storytelling books. Each book contains 20 stories which are high interest and invite audience participation. Valerie uses a variety of storytelling methods in her books such as paper-cutting, draw and tell, sign language, puppets made from food items, and tangrams. Valerie becam....[more] |
| Matthew Peterson is an award-winning writer, second degree black belt in karate, Eagle scout, computer programmer and former missionary. His debut young adult novel, Paraworld Zero, hit two bestseller lists and placed in over ten book/audiobook contests, including first place in the London and DIY Book Festivals, secon....[more] |
| Michael has written more than 200 children's books including middle grade novels, tie-in novelizations, and picture books based on movies, video games, and television shows such as Smallville, Avatar, Men in Black, X-Men and Spider-Man.
Michael's packaging company, Town Brook Press, created and produced Spider-Man M....[more] |
| For many, an illustrated version of Aesop’s Fables is ubiquitous with childhood. Born a slave, Aesop and his fables have become a staple of popular culture for generations. While his birthplace is a matter of much scholarly debate with Egypt, Ethiopia and Athens being presented as possibilities, some facts about his li....[more] |
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James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American author, poet, screenwriter, journalist, and film critic. Agee is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957). Agee was working on the novel at the time of his death. After his death, the n....[more] |
| Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, is most well-known for his fairy tales, which include ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Thumbelina’, and ‘The Ugly Duckling’. Andersen was born to poor parents, a washerwoman and a shoemaker, in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. Odense was the only town outside of Denmark’s capital to have a thea....[more] |
| Isaac Yudovich Ozimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. He also wrote mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited approximately five hundred books and more than nine thousand letters and postcards. One of his short sto....[more] |
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