Authors

Children's and Young Adults' Authors and Illustrators
Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center's index to author and illustrator Internet sites. The ISLMC is a meta-site designed to foster easy access to curriculum related sites for teachers, school librarians, parents and students. Maintained by Inez L. Ramsey, Professor Emeritus in Library Science, James Madison University.

Authors and Illustrators on the Web
Part of The Children's Literature Web Guide, Created and maintained by David K. Brown, Director, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary.

TeenReads.com
Teenreads.com bring teens info and features about their favorite authors, books, series and characters. They are a part of The Book Report Network, a group of websites founded in 1996 that share thoughtful book reviews, compelling features, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts of the hottest new releases, literary games and contests, and more with readers every week. Note: there are ads.

Authors and Illustrators - Great Web Sites for Kids
Includes links to authors and illustrators. The sites are recommended for children from preschool through age 14, their parents, and other caregivers. Recommendations apply only to sites listed, not to any sites that may be linked from these sites. The pages are maintained by the Great Web Sites Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children.

American Authors on the Web
Compiled by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Associate Professor, Research Division of Comparative Language and Culture, Faculty of Language and Culture, Graduate School of Languages & Cultures, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

American Authors
Compiled by Donna M. Campbell, an associate professor of English at Gonzaga University. The purpose of all the American literature pages is to provide useful, interesting, advertising-free information on the subject and to provide links to the best information available for American literature from the earliest days through the 1920s. Most author pages have bibliographies and some additional information. The Timeline pages provide brief statements (as factually correct as possible) about events in American history and literary history.

Cynthia Leitch Smith's authors and illustrators
lots of current authors in an alphabetical list with links to other sites.

IPL Literary Criticism Collection
The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4637 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

PAL - Perspectives in American Literature
Alphabetical listing of American authors. With nearly 400 pages, including 300 author pages, this site is a significant presence in American literature on the web.

Scholastic.com Author and Illustrator Index
Includes searchable author index. TM & © 2008-1996 Scholastic Inc.

Yahoo! Kids search results: authors

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updated 8-18-08