General Authors

Author studies and illustrator studies are great ways to encourage student interest in reading and writing. Below is a selection of sites which contain individual’s pages as well as some containing information on multiple individuals.

General Author/Illustrator Sites -

African American Authors and Their Works
http://712educators.about.com/od/blackauthors/

All About Reading
Get to Know an Author
http://www.scholastic.com/familymatters/read/all/bl_meetauthor.htm

AMERICA WRITES FOR KIDS!
http://usawrites4kids.drury.edu/

American Quilts Series by Susan E. Kirby
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/tbarcalow/quilt/americanquilts.htm

Appalachian Literature
A Bibliography
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/mulappala3.htm

authillus
http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/chooseauthor.cfm

Author Appearances
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/authorappearances.htm

Author Interview
http://www.teachernet.com/author/author.htm

Author Interviews
http://www.harperchildrens.com/catalog/author_interviews.asp

Author Pages
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/AuthorSite/index.html

Author Sites
http://www.aublib.logan.k12.ky.us/author%20sites.htm

Author Studies Homepage
http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authorstudies.jhtml

Author Studies Homepage 2005Authors
http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authorstudies.jhtml

Author Interviews
http://www.harperchildrens.com/catalog/author_interviews.asp

About Publishers-Writers-Writing-Editors-Literary Agents-Main Index
http://www.authorlink.com/index.html

AuthorNotes
http://www.harperchildrens.com/catalog/authors_notes.asp

Authors Among Us
Librarians as Children's Writers
http://ravenstonepress.com/libwritr.html

Authors and Illustrators
http://www.boydsmillspress.com/authors.tpl?command=showpage&authorid=0483

Authors and Illustrators
http://www.state.sd.us/deca/DDN4Learning/ThemeUnits/Illustrators/authors.htm
Authors and Illustrators
http://www.state.sd.us/deca/DDN4Learning/ThemeUnits/Illustrators/

Authors in Schools Poets
http://www.authorsinschools.com/

Between the Lions . Flood! | PBS Kids
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/flood.html

Biographies
http://friend.ly.net/users/jorban/biographies/index.html

Book an Author
McBookwords
http://www.mcelmeel.com/bookauthor/

Book Information 2
http://k12.albemarle.org/MurrayElem/White/Seuss/bookinf2.html#Others

Books
http://www.geocities.com/mcuyler02/books.htm

Boyds Mills Press
Author & Illustrator Visits
http://www.boydsmillspress.com/visits.tpl

Children's Author and Illustrator Biographies
http://www.edupaperback.org/bios.cfm

Children's Book Author Illustrator Joan Holub
http://www.joanholub.com/index.html

Children's Fiction from HarperCollins Authors Websites
http://www.harperchildrens.com/catalog/websites.asp

Children's Literature @Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/childlit.html

Children's Literature @Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/childlit.html

Children's Literature Lessons (Authors/Shakespeare/Classics)
http://members.aol.com/DonnAnCiv/3Literature.html

CLAU
Children's Literature Authors and Illustrators
http://www.clau.org/authors/

Eatons Hill State School
Authors and Illustrators Birthdays
http://www.eatohillss.eq.edu.au/birthdays.htm

EPA’s Toop 100 Authors
http://www.edupaperback.org/top100.cfm

Gale Schools
Lesson Plans - Social Studies K5
http://www.galeschools.com/lesson_plans/k5_ss_plan.htm

Gale Schools
Author Visits - Home
http://www.galeschools.com/sleeping_bear/index.htm
 

Grade One Central
Authors on the Web
http://www.geocities.com/GradeOne_ca/Lessons/authors.html

Index to Internet Sites: Children's and Young Adults' Authors & Illustrators
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm

Hennepin County Library
KidLinks
http://www.hclib.org/kid/frame.cfm?frame=kids_read.cfm

Kentucky Authors and Literature
http://www.louisville.edu/~easchn01/kentucky/1lite.html

McBookwords
Authors and Illustrators on the Web
http://www.mcelmeel.com/curriculum/authorlinks.html

Marilee’s Picturebook Links
http://marilee.us/authors.html

NEA
NEA's Read Across America - Resources
http://www.nea.org/readacross/resources/

Oakland Elementary
Author Studies
http://oakland.dpsk12.org/stories/storyReader$12

Our Favorite Authors and Characters
http://www.geocities.com/tashaclapp/favorites.html

Penguin Group (USA) Authors
http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/html/authors-browse.html

Pronouncing Dictionary of Authors’ Names
http://mainst.monterey.k12.ca.us/library/libpg/Dictionary/dict.html

Teachers@Random
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/authors/

UNCC Atkins Library CIMC Curriculum Resources -
http://libweb.uncc.edu/cimc/integration/Authors.htm

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