English novelist.

• Author of Brave New World

Colombian novelist and short-story writer associated with ''magical realism.''

• Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude

American novelist and film director.

• Author of The Learning Tree

American novelist and essayist.

• Author of Live from Golgotha

Reclusive American novelist and short-story writer.

• Author of Catcher in the Rye

American novelist.

• Author of A Separate Peace

American novelist.

• Author of Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath

American novelist.

• Author of Slaughterhouse-Five

Pseudonym of American novelist and humorist Samuel Clemens.

• Author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

American illustrator, author and set designer.

• Author of In the Night Kitchen

Pseudonym of Japanese novelist and playwright Kimitake Hiraoka, who committed seppuku (ritual suicide) in a plea for Japanese rearmament.

• Author of The Sound of Waves

American playwright.

• Author of The Pigman

English writer.

• Author of The Witches, Revolting Rhymes, and James and the Giant Peach

American novelist.

• Author of Christine, and Cujo

German folklorist.

• Author of Little Red Riding Hood

English novelist.

• Author of Lord of the Flies

American journalist and author. Best known for Roots, a historical novel recounting an ancestor's sale into slavery and following the family fortunes up to modern times.

• Co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Radio talk show host.

• Author of Private Parts

African-American religious and political leader. Assassinated for his radical views on race relations. Original name: Malcolm Little.

• Co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X

American novelist and essayist. Best known for his novel Native Son.

• Author of Native Son

German folklorist.

• Author of Little Red Riding Hood

French painter and printmaker.

• Author of Manet

• Editor of Impressions

• Author of The Chocolate War

• Author of Scary Stories in the Dark, More Scary Stories in the Dark, and Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones

• Author of Grendel

• Author of I Have to Go

• Author of Daddy''s Roommate

• Author of Curses, Hexes, and Spells

American novelist

• Author of Night Chills

• Author of How to Eat Fried Worms

• Author of A Day No Pigs Would Die

• Author of Fallen Angels

• Author of The New Teenage Body Book

• Author of My Brother Sam Is Dead

• Author of My Brother Sam Is Dead

• Author of The Figure in the Shadows

Writer and illustrator.

• Author of A Light in the Attic

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• Author of One Hundred Questions and Answers about AIDS

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• Author of Voodoo and Hoodoo

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• Author of The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies

American novelist.

• Author of Then Again, Maybe I Won''t, and Blubber

• Author of Bridge to Terabithia, and The Great Gilly Hopkins

American children's writer.

• Author of A Wrinkle in Time

American poet, essayist and autobiographer. Original name: Marguerite Johnson.

• Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

American novelist, essayist and poet.

• Author of The Color Purple

American poet.

• Author of My House Poems

Canadian novelist and poet.

• Author of The Handmaid''s Tale

• Author of Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols

• Author of The Headless Cupid, and The Witches of Worm

• Author of Halloween ABC

• Author of Heather Has Two Mommies

• Author of The New Teenage Body Book

• Author of On My Honor

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• Author of Clan of the Cave Bear

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• Author of Jambo Means Hello: The Swahili Alphabet

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• Author of Changing Bodies, Changing Lives