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The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The award has been given since 1922...
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman (pronounced /ˈɡeɪmən/) (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include The Sandman graphic novel...
Laura Amy Schlitz
Laura Amy Schlitz is an American author of children's literature. She is a librarian and storyteller at Park School in Baltimore County, Maryland.
She received the 2008 Newbery Medal for her children's book entitled Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!...
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Susan Patron
Susan Patron (b. 1948 in Los Angeles, California) is an author of children's books. In 2007, she won the Newbery Award for The Higher Power of Lucky. Patron's first children's book, Burgoo Stew, was published in 1990. It was followed by three more...
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Lynne Rae Perkins
Lynne Rae Perkins (born July 31, 1956) is a Newbery Medal winning American writer and illustrator of books for children.
Her novel Criss Cross, winner of the 2006 Newbery Medal, is a book of vignettes, illustrations, photographs, and poems about a...
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Cynthia Kadohata
Cynthia Kadohata (born 1956 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Japanese American writer known for Newbery Medal. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986.
Weedflower, her second children's book, was published in Spring 2006. It is...
Kate DiCamillo
Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo (born March 25, 1964) is an American children's author. She is known for her Newbery Award-winning books including Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, and the Mercy Watson series.
Born in Philadelphia,...
Edward Irving Wortis
Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by the pen name Avi, is a prominent American author of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of both the Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal.
Avi and his twin sister Emily...
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Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park is an American author of children's fiction. Park published her first novel, Seesaw Papo, in 10 A.D. To date, she has written six children’s novels and five picture books for younger readers. Park’s work achieved prominence when she...
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Richard Peck
Richard Peck (born April 10, 1934) is an American novelist known for his prolific contributions to modern young adult literature. He was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel A Year Down Yonder.
Richard Peck actually began his career as a...
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Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis (born May 10, 1953) is an American children's author and a Newbery Medal winner who wrote the The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 and the critically acclaimed Bud, Not Buddy. Bud, Not Buddy is the first novel to receive both...
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar (pronounced /ˈsækər/ "sacker"; born March 20, 1954) is an American author of children's books who is best known for the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series and the 1998 novel Holes, for which Sachar won a National Book...
Karen Hesse
Karen Hesse (1952 - ) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. Her novel Out of the Dust was the winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical...
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E. L. Konigsburg
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (born February 10, 1930) is an American author and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She is the only author to win the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year (1968), with her second and first...
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Karen Cushman
Karen Cushman (born October 4, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer of historical fiction. Her 1995 novel The Midwife's Apprentice won the Newbery Medal for children's literature, and her 1994 novel Catherine, Called Birdy won a Newbery...
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Sharon Creech
Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American novelist of children's fiction. Her novel Walk Two Moons received the 1995 Newbery Medal; The Wanderer was a 2001 Newbery Honor book and Ruby Holler received the 2002 Carnegie Medal. In 2007,...
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg on March 20, 1937) is an American author of children's literature. She began her career as a photographer and a freelance journalist during the early 1970s. Her work as a journalist drew the attention of...
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Cynthia Rylant
Cynthia Rylant (born June 6, 1954) is an American author. She has written more than 100 children's books in English and Spanish. With the divorce of her parents when she was four and living without running water and electricity she became an author...
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American author best known for her children and young adult fiction books. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel trilogy Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner), Shiloh Season and Saving...
Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli (born February 1, 1941) is a children's author of fictional novels about adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for the novels Maniac Magee and Wringer.
Spinelli was born in Montgomery County of Norristown, Pennsylvania and...
Paul Fleischman
Paul Fleischman (1952 - ) is an American children's author. He grew up in Santa Monica, California, hearing his father, Sid Fleischman, read his books aloud chapter by chapter, as they were written. Both have won the Newbery Medal, Sid for The...
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Russell Freedman
Russell Freedman (born 1929 in San Francisco) is a biographer and author of nearly 50 books for young people. He is most notable for receiving the 1988 Newbery Medal with his work Lincoln: A Photobiography. In 1998, he received the Laura Ingalls...
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Sid Fleischman
Sid Fleischman (born Albert Sidney Fleischman, March 16, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York), is a longtime resident of Santa Monica, California, U.S. and a Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books. His parents were both from Russia, of a Jewish...
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Patricia MacLachlan
Patricia MacLachlan (born March 3, 1938 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) is a bestselling U.S. children's author, best known for winning the 1986 Newbery Medal for her book Sarah, Plain and Tall. The book was later turned into a TV movie starring Glenn Close...
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Robin McKinley
Robin McKinley (born November 16, 1952 as Jennifer Carolyn Robin Turrell McKinley) is a fantasy author especially known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel The Hero and the Crown. She has also won a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword, the Mythopoeic...
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary (born Beverly Atlee Bunn on April 12, 1916) is an American author from Oregon. Educated at colleges in California and Washington, she worked as a librarian before starting to write children's books. Cleary has written over 30 books...
Cynthia Voigt
Cynthia Voigt (born 1942) is an American author of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse. Her first book in the Tillerman family series, Homecoming, was nominated for several...
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Nancy Willard
Nancy Willard (born June 26, 1936, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a children's author and poet. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She lives in Poughkeepsie, New York and lectures at Vassar College. She was...
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Joan Blos
Joan Winsor Blos (9 December 1928 – ) is an author, Teacher and Advocate for Children and Literature. In 1980, she won the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award for A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal. She lives in Ann Arbor,...
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Ellen Raskin
Ellen Ermingard Raskin (March 13, 1928 - August 8, 1984) was an American writer, illustrator and fashion designer. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up during the Great Depression. Primarily a children's author, she received the 1979...
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Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is an American author of books for children.
Paterson was born in Jiangsu, China to Christian missionaries George and Mary Womeldorf. Her father was a principal at Sutton 690, a school for girls, and...
Mildred Taylor
Mildred DeLois Taylor (born 1943 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an African American author, known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South. Mildred Taylor lived in Jackson, Mississippi then moved to...
Susan Cooper
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is a British author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume fantasy saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology (Arthurian and folkloric...
Virginia Hamilton
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Virginia Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote over 35 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in...
Paula Fox
Paula Fox (born April 22, 1923) is an American author of novels for adults and children and two memoirs. Her novel The Slave Dancer (1973) received the Newbery Medal in 1974; and in 1978, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. More...
Jean Craighead George
Jean Craighead George (b. 2 July 1919 in Washington, D.C.) is an American author. She lives in Chappaqua, New York.
Jean Craighead George has written over one hundred popular books for young adults, including the Newbery Medal and Deutscher...
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Robert C. O'Brien
Robert Leslie Conly (January 11, 1918 - March 5, 1973) (better known by his pen name, Robert C. O'Brien) was an American author and journalist for National Geographic Magazine.
Conly was the third of five children from a well-educated Irish-Catholic...
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Betsy Byars
Betsy Cromer Byars (born August 7, 1928) is an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award, for The Night Swimmers (1980), and an Edgar Award, for Wanted....
William Howard Armstrong
William H. Armstrong (September 14, 1911 near Lexington, Virginia - April 11, 1999 in Kent, Connecticut) was an American children's author and educator, best known for his 1969 Newbery Medal-winning novel, Sounder.
After growing up on a farm near...
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Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Chudley Alexander (January 30, 1924 – May 17, 2007) was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books. His most famous contribution to the...
Irene Hunt
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Irene Hunt (May 18, 1907 – May 18, 2001) was born to Franklin P. and Sarah Land Hunt on May 8, 1907 in Pontiac, Illinois. The family soon moved to Newton, Illinois, but Franklin died when Hunt was only...
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Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
Mary Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (September 2, 1904 - December 2, 2001) is an American author.
Elizabeth was born in Bakersfield, California, the daughter of attorney Fred Ellsworth Borton and Carrie Louise Christensen. Her family were all...
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Maia Wojciechowska
Maia Wojciechowski (August 8, 1927 – June 13, 2000) was a writer of children's books. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, spent some time in France and England, and later came to the United States with her parents. In 1965, her book Shadow of a Bull ...
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Emily Neville
Emily Cheney Neville (December 28, 1919 – December 14, 1997) was an American author. She was born in Manchester, Connecticut and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1940. After receiving her A.B. from Bryn Mawr, she worked for the New York Daily New...
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Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many...
Elizabeth George Speare
Elizabeth George Speare (November 21, 1908 – November 15, 1994) was an American children's author who won many awards for her historical fiction novels, including two Newbery Medals. She has been called one of America’s 100 most popular children’s...
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Scott O'Dell
Scott O'Dell (May 23, 1898 – October 15, 1989) was an American children's author who wrote 26 novels for youngsters, along with three adult novels and four nonfiction books. He was most famously the author of the children's novel Island of the Blue...
Joseph Krumgold
Joseph Quincy Krumgold (April 9, 1908-July 10, 1980) was a United States author and scriptwriter. He was the first author to receive the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature twice. Lois Lowry, Elizabeth George Speare,...
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Harold Keith
Harold Keith the Newbery Medal winning author (1903 - 24 February 1998) Born and raised, lived and died in Oklahoma, the state was his abiding passion. He used Oklahoma as the settings for most of his books, though Rifles for Waite takes place...
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Virginia Sorenson
Virginia Sorensen, also credited as Virginia Sorenson, (February 17, 1912, in Provo, Utah – December 24, 1991) was the author of the 1957 John Newbery Medal winning Miracles on Maple Hill. Her first novel, A Little Lower Than the Angels, was written...
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Jean Lee Latham
Jean Lee Latham (April 19, 1902 – June 13, 1995) was an American writer. She was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Her father was a cabinetmaker and her mother was a teacher. She attended West Virginia Wesleyan College and received an A.B. in 1925....
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Meindert DeJong
Meindert De Jong sometimes spelled as Meindert de Jong or Dejong (4 March 1906 – 16 July 1991) was an award winning author of children's books. He was born in the village of Wierum, of the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands.
De Jong...
Ann Nolan Clark
Ann Nolan Clark, born Anna Marie Nolan (December 5, 1896 – December 6, 1995) was an American writer who won the 1953 Newbery Medal.
Born in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Clark graduated from New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas at age 21, and...
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Eleanor Estes
Eleanor Estes (May 9, 1906 – July 15, 1988) was an American children's author. She was born in West Haven, Connecticut as Eleanor Ruth Rosenfield. Originally a librarian, Estes' writing career began following a case of tuberculosis. Bedridden while...
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Elizabeth Yates
Elizabeth Yates (December 6, 1905 - July 29, 2001) was a prolific American author. She is perhaps best known for her Newbery Medal winning novel Amos Fortune, Free Man. Book about a man who is taken away as a slave from his father(king).....
Her...
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Marguerite de Angeli
Marguerite de Angeli (March 14, 1889 – June 16, 1987) was a bestselling author and illustrator of children's books including the 1950 Newbery Award winning book The Door in the Wall. She wrote and illustrated twenty-eight of her own books, and...
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Marguerite Henry
Marguerite Henry (April 13, 1902-November 26, 1997) was an American writer. Henry inspired children all over the world with her love of animals, especially horses. The author of fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals, her...
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William Pène du Bois
William Pène du Bois, (May 9, 1916 – February 5, 1993), was a French American author and illustrator. He was best known for The Twenty-One Balloons, published in April, 1947 by The Viking Press. From 1953 to 1960, he worked with George Plimpton as...
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Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (October 25, 1875 – December 23, 1961) was an American children's author. She was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and attended Teachers College, Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1896. She contributed to the...
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Lois Lenski
Lois Lenski (October 14, 1893 - September 11, 1974) was a popular and prolific American writer of children's and young adult fiction.
One of her projects was a collection of regional novels about children across the United States. Titles in this...
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Robert Lawson
Robert Lawson (October 4, 1892 – May 27, 1957) was an American author and illustrator of children's books, some of which are widely known. During World War I, he also served as a camouflage artist.
Born in New York City, Lawson spent his early life...
