A few web sites of interest about some great authors. Biographies, information about their work, and in some cases, a chance to contact them directly.

Avi, author of Blue Heron, Wolf Rider, A Place Called Ugly, and many more for various ages.

T.A. Barron, author of the Lost Years of Merlin series and others.

Hilari Bell, author of Songs of Power and A Matter of Profit.

Judy Blume, author of Forever; Tiger Eyes; Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret; Summer Sisters and many more.

Terry Brooks, author of many books of both serious and funny fantasy and science fiction.

Eve Bunting, author of Ghost of Summer; Face at the Edge of the World; The Haunting of Safekeep; The Ghosts of Departure Point and many more.

Diane Duane, author of So You Want to Be a Wizard and many others.

Lois Duncan, author of Killing Mr. Griffin; Down a Dark Hall; The Third Eye; Trapped; I Know What You Did Last Summer, as well as other suspense novels.

Sylvia Louise Engdahl, author of The Doors of the Universe; Enchantress From the Stars and other stories of science fiction and fantasy.

Neil Gaiman, author of the Sandman graphic novels, Stardust, Neverwhere, and many others.

Virginia Hamilton, author of many novels and collector of traditional folktales, her books include: The People Could Fly; House of Dies Drear; The Dark Way; M.C. Higgins the Great; Plain City.

Diana Wynne Jones, author of Fire and Hemlock; A Tale of Time City; Eight Days  of Luke, and a variety of other fantasy or science fiction novels.

M.E. Kerr, author of Night Kites, "Hello," I Lied, and Linger, and various other novels about real life.

Lois Lowry, author of A Summer to Die; Rabble Starkey; Anastasia's Chosen Career; The Giver. Winner of many awards.

Robin McKinley, author of Beauty; The Blue Sword; The Hero and the Crown. Newbery Award winner.

Walter Dean Myers, author of Fallen Angels; Scorpions; The Mouse Rap; The Glory Field, and many others.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, author of Send No Blessings; All But Alice; The Fear Place and others.

Katherine Paterson, author of Jacob Have I Loved; The Master Puppeteer; Lyddie and others.

Gary Paulsen, author of The Voyage of the Frog; The River; The Haymeadow and others.

Tamora Pierce, author of the Alanna series and other fantasy novels.

Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld novels.

J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series.

Sherwood Smith, author and co-author of sf and fantasy novels.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder, author of Until the Celebration; Below the Root; The Birds of Summer; Libby on Wednesdays; Cat Running and others

Jane Yolen, author of a wide variety of books for all ages, including Armageddon Summer, The Devil's Arithmetic and the Dragon's Blood series.

04 April 2007