On November 1st, we celebrate all of the authors that write the books that we cherish and adore! National Author's Day provides us with the chance to appreciate the brilliant minds that created the stories that give us all the feels. You can celebrate National Author’s Day by curling up with your favorite book, a warm up of hot cocoa, and spending time drifting into another world. So when you are devouring each page of an old favorite or discovering a new book, take a moment to appreciate the author(s) that spent countless hours dreaming up the pages of your favorite books.
Here are some of the most checked our authors from the PRHS Learning Commons (some may be new to you)! Go give their websites some love, following them on social media, and check out one of their books today. Many of these authors have multiple series or standalone books (WOOT)! See a book on their website that you want to read that we do not currently have in our collection? Fill out this form to request the title or come talk to Ms. Fleck or Mrs. Sargent! Curious to see if we have a particular author's work? You can search for books by the authors name in our catalog!
Did you know that these authors were teenagers when they wrote their first books?! AWESOME!!!
Alexandra Adornetto was 13 when she decided to take a stab at writing a novel. The Shadow Thief was published by HarperCollins in 2007, the first of her Strangest Adventures series. She finished that three-book series and then began her Halo trilogy, all before she turned 20.
S.E. Hinton was 15 when she started writing The Outsiders and was still in high school when it was published! Now the book is considered a young classic!
Kody Keplinger was 17 when she wrote her novel, The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend), and 19 when it was published. It made the New York Times Bestseller list and has since been turned into a movie.
Christopher Paolini was 15 when he wrote the first draft of Eragon, which follows the adventure of a teenage boy and his dragon. He spent an additional two years revising the book before his parents self-published it.
