Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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Incoming Resources
- Pass it down, five picture-book families make their mark, Leonard S. Marcus
- Shel Silverstein, by Molly Kolpin
- Langston Hughes, American poet, by Alice Walker ; paintings by Catherine Deeter
- When I Was Your Age, Original Stories About Growing Up, edited by Amy Ehrlich
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider, the story of E. B. White, Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo
- Looking back, a book of memories, Lois Lowry
- The important thing about Margaret Wise Brown, written by Mac Barnett ; illustrated by Sarah Jacoby
- Guts, the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books, Gary Paulsen
- No map, great trip, a young writer's road to page one, Paul Fleischman
- Rick Riordan, Adam Furgang
- Planting stories, the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré, words by Anika Aldamuy Denise ; illustrations by Paola Escobar
- Only Margaret, a story about Margaret Wise Brown, written by Candice Ransom ; illustrated by Nan Lawson
- Nonsense!, the curious story of Edward Gorey, written by Lori Mortensen ; illustrated by Chloe Bristol
- Who was Ernest Hemingway?, by Jim Gigliotti ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- Guys write for guys read, [boys' favorite authors write about being boys], edited by Jon Scieszka
- Lone cowboy, my life story, by Will James ; illustrated by the author. --
- Gordon Korman, Sheelagh Matthews
- Who is R. L. Stine?, by M. D. Payne ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- The strange birds of Flannery O'Connor, a life, Amy Alznauer & Ping Zhu
- Rise, from caged bird to poet of the people, Maya Angelou, by Bethany Hegedus ; foreword by Colin Johnson ; illustrations by Tonya Engel
- Alabama spitfire, the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Bethany Hegedus ; illustrated by Erin McGuire
- Barbara Park, by Molly Kolpin
- Rascal, by Sterling North ; illustrated by John Schoenherr. --
- Gone to the woods, surviving a lost childhood, Gary Paulsen
- Guts, the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books, Gary Paulsen
- When everybody wore a hat, William Steig
- For the duration, [the war years], written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola
- Prairie girl, the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by William Anderson ; illustrations by Renee Graef
- Bill Peet, an autobiography, Bill Peet
- The road to Oz, twists, turns, bumps, and triumphs in the life of L. Frank Baum, by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
- Gertrude Chandler Warner and The Boxcar Children, Mary Ellen Ellsworth ; illustrated by Marie DeJohn
- Island treasures, growing up in Cuba, Alma Flor Ada ; illustrations by Edel Rodriguez and Antonio Martorell
- Chris Van Allsburg, Jill C. Wheeler
- Bemelmans, the life & art of Madeline's creator, by John Bemelmans Marciano
- Just like Beverly, a biography of Beverly Cleary, Vicki Conrad ; illustrated by David Hohn
- Marshfield memories, more stories about growing up, Ralph Fletcher
- Keats's neighborhood, an Ezra Jack Keats treasury, with an introduction by Anita Silvey
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, a biography, by William Anderson
- Marjory saves the Everglades, the story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, written by Sandra Neil Wallace ; illustrated by Rebecca Gibbon
- 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
- My life in dog years, Gary Paulsen ; with drawings by Ruth Wright Paulsen
- How to die of embarrassment every day, [a true story], Ann Hodgman
- Someone like me, Patricia MacLachlan ; illustrations by Chris Sheban
- Becoming Madeleine, a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy
- Virginia Lee Burton, a life in art, by Barbara Elleman
- The Seuss, the whole Seuss, and nothing but the Seuss, a visual biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel, by Charles D. Cohen
- Some writer!, the story of E. B. White, by Melissa Sweet ; afterword by Martha White
- The world of little house, Carolyn Strom Collins, Christina Wyss Eriksson ; illustrations by Deborah Maze and Garth Williams
- Meet Laura Ingalls Wilder, S. Ward
- A girl from Yamhill, a memoir, Beverly Cleary
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