Tag: American writer

Born: 20 March 1937 (age 83 years), Honolulu, Hawaii, United States Awards: John Newbery Medal, MORE Movies: The Giver, The Willoughbys Education: Berkeley Carroll School, Brown University, University of Southern Maine, Curtis High School Works: The Giver (1993) Gathering Blue (2000) ...

Jan Brett is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She is known for colorful, detailed depictions of a wide variety of animals and human cultures ranging from Scandinavia to Africa.

David Murray "Dav" Pilkey, Jr. is an American author and illustrator of children's literature. Pilkey is the author and illustrator of the Captain Underpants book series.

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays.

Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992)[1] was an American writer known as the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

Jeffrey Patrick "Jeff" Kinney is an American game designer, cartoonist, producer, actor and author of children's books including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. He is also attributed as the creator of the child-oriented website Poptropica.

John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide.

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer and producer.He came to prominence in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947) which earned him an Academy Award.