Young Adult Author

This page lists 607 biographies of young adult authors, covering lives from 1806 to 2000. Featuring David Almond, Deborah Wiles and Gemma Lienas. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

b. 1983

Teresa Toten

b. 1955

Steven Otfinoski

b. 1949

Echo Brown

1984 – 2023

Tim Bowler

b. 1953

Akemi Dawn Bowman

Andrea Chapela

b. 1990

Lisi Harrison

b. 1970

Wendy Phillips

b. 1959

Francine Pascal

1932 – 2024

Bill Swan

b. 1939

Ursula Dubosarsky

b. 1961

Jack Heath

b. 1986

Stephanie Perkins

b. 1981

Sheree Fitch

b. 1956

Alwyn Hamilton

b. 1988

Larry Dane Brimner

b. 1949

Pete Hautman

b. 1952

Hesba Fay Brinsmead

1922 – 2003

Jane Godwin

b. 1964

Karel Eykman

1936 – 2022

Livi Michael

b. 1960

Mildred D. Taylor

b. 1943

Oisín McGann

b. 1973

Sophie McKenzie

Wendy Orr

b. 1953

Tillie S. Pine

1896 – 1999

David Klass

b. 1960

Vivian Vande Velde

b. 1951

Jordan Sonnenblick

b. 1969

Norma Klein

1938 – 1989

Rosie Rushton

b. 1946

Tommy Wallach

b. 1982

Corinna Belz

b. 1955

Diane Stanley

b. 1943

Scott Westerfeld

b. 1963

Sara Zarr

b. 1970

César Fernández García

b. 1967

Synne Sun Løes

b. 1975

Aiden Thomas

Noriko Ogiwara

b. 1959

Judith C. Vogt

b. 1981

Máret Ánne Sara

b. 1983

Jim Benton

b. 1960

Antonia Forest

1915 – 2003

Tanja Kinkel

b. 1969

Kate Cary

b. 1967

Susan Juby

b. 1969

MaryJanice Davidson

b. 1969

Robert Paul Weston

b. 1975

Kaori Ekuni

b. 1964

Brian Falkner

b. 1962

Maureen Johnson

b. 1973

Elizabeth Partridge

b. 1951

Maj Bylock

1931 – 2019

Karen Hesse

b. 1952

Lorris Murail

1951 – 2021

Edward Hogan

b. 1980

Tanya Lloyd Kyi

b. 1973

Rose Lagercrantz

b. 1947

Connie Glynn

b. 1994

Colin Dann

b. 1943

Leo Yerxa

b. 1947

Joseph Alexander Altsheler

1862 – 1919

John Flanagan

1944 – 2026

F. E. Higgins

b. 1950

Mario Giordano

b. 1963

Jordan Weisman

b. 1960

Valéry Raydon

b. 1973

Alicia Morel

1921 – 2017

Allan Frewin Jones

b. 1954

Anthony Buckeridge

1912 – 2004

Kate De Goldi

b. 1959

Suzanne Fisher Staples

1945 – 2022

Suzana Montoro

b. 1957

Margot Benary-Isbert

1889 – 1979

Rebecca Ross

b. 1987

Kiera Cass

b. 1981

Simone van der Vlugt

b. 1966

Andy Mulligan

b. 1966

Aslak Dørum

b. 1964

Franz Kurowski

1923 – 2011

Martha Heesen

b. 1948

Per Nilsson

b. 1954

Jenny Valentine

b. 1970

Patrice Kindl

b. 1951

Emily Brightwell

b. 1948

Greg Neri

KL Going

b. 1973

Alyssa Brugman

b. 1974

N. M. Browne

b. 1960

Ernst Hiemer

1900 – 1974

Lauren Kate

b. 1981

Gloria D. Miklowitz

1927 – 2015

Michael Grant

b. 1954

Linda Amyot

b. 1958

Lisa Graff

b. 1981

Adelheid Dahimène

1956 – 2010

Jennifer Armstrong

b. 1961

Cathy Hopkins

b. 1953