Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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Incoming Resources
- Meet Jane Yolen / Alice B. McGinty
- Becoming Madeleine, a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy
- Maya Angelou, author and documentary filmmaker, Lucia Raatma
- Bad boy, a memoir, by Walter Dean Myers
- Tomás Rivera, Jane Medina ; illustrated by Edward Martinez
- Five pages a day, a writer's journey, Peg Kehret
- James Baldwin : African-American writer and activist, by Deborah Cannarella
- Beverly Cleary, Susan Ring
- I had a lot of wishes, by James Stevenson
- Searching for Laura Ingalls, a reader's journey, by Kathryn Lasky and Meribah Knight ; photographs by Christopher G. Knight
- Who is R. L. Stine?, by M.D. Payne ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- Bill Peet, an autobiography
- Theodor Geisel, Tanya Dean
- Judy Blume, Jennifer Nault
- Some writer!, the story of E. B. White, by Melissa Sweet
- King of the mild frontier, an ill-advised autobiography, Chris Crutcher
- Oh, the places he went, a story about Dr. Seuss--Theodore Seuss Geisel, by Maryann N. Weidt ; illustrations by Kerry Maguire
- For spacious skies, Katharine Lee Bates and the inspiration for "America the beautiful", Nancy Churnin ; illustrated by Olga Baumert
- For the duration, written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola
- The pigman & me, Paul Zindel
- Maya Angelou, by Nancy Shuker
- Gertrude Stein, Ann La Farge ; [introductory essay by Matina S. Horner]
- Zora Neale Hurston, writer and storyteller, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
- Guts, the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books, Gary Paulsen
- Ernest Hemingway, a writer's life, by Catherine Reef
- Natural writer, a story about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, by Judy Cook and Laura Lee Smith ; illustrated by Laurie Harden
- A voice for the Everglades, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Vicki Conrad ; illustrated by Ibon Adarne and Rachel Yew
- Knots in my yo-yo string, the autobiography of a kid, by Jerry Spinelli
- Feed your mind, a story of August Wilson, by Jen Bryant ; illustrated by Cannaday Chapman
- Mr. McCloskey's marvelous mallards, the making of Make Way for Ducklings, Emma Bland Smith ; illustrated by Becca Stadtlander
- Richard Wright, a biography, Debbie Levy
- Who was Ernest Hemingway?, by Jim Gigliotti ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- The making of a writer, Joan Lowery Nixon
- What a year, written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola
- Maya Angelou, written by Lisbeth Kaiser ; illustrated by Leire Salaberria
- Maya's song, written by Renée Watson ; illustrated by Bryan Collier
- John Steinbeck, a twentieth-century life, by Milton Meltzer
- The boy on Fairfield Street, how Ted Geisel grew up to become Dr. Seuss, by Kathleen Krull ; paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher ; with decorative illustrations by Dr. Seuss
- A story is to share, how Ruth Krauss found another way to tell a tale, words by Carter Higgins ; pictures by Isabelle Arsenault
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, voice of the Jazz Age, Caroline Lazo
- Shel Silverstein, by Elisa Ludwig
- Judy Blume, Cee Telford
- Knots in my yo-yo string, the autobiography of a kid, Jerry Spinelli
- Paula Danziger, voice of teen troubles, Jennifer Bond Reed
- E.B. White, spinner of webs and tales, Catherine Bernard
- Seeing the circle, by Joseph Bruchac ; photographs by John Christopher Fine
- Ernest Hemingway, Kate Riggs
- Gone to the woods, surviving a lost childhood, Gary Paulsen ; [pictures, Anna and Varvara Kendel]
- Learning about achievement from the life of Maya Angelou, Brenn Jones
- Richard Wright, author of Native son and Black boy, Robin Westen
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