Judy Blume (February 12, 1938) is an American writer of children's, young adult and adult fiction. Some of her best known works are Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (1970), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972), Deenie (1973), and Blubber (1974).

John Boyne is an Irish novelist. He is the author of eleven novels for adults and six novels for younger readers. His novels are published in over 50 languages. His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was adapted into a 2008 film of the same name. 

Kieran Scott is an American author of such chick lit books as The Princess and the Pauper, Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys, The Virginity Club, Sweet 16, Fake Boyfriend, and the Private series. 

Carol Ryrie Brink was an American author of over thirty juvenile and adult books. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn won the 1936 Newbery Medal and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.

Bruce Brooks has twice received the Newbery Honor, first in 1985 for Moves Make the Man, and again in 1992 for What Hearts. He is also the author of Everywhere, Midnight Hour Encores, Asylum for Nightface, Vanishing, and Throwing Smoke.

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. 

George Alfred Henty (December 8, 1832- November 16, 1902) was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century.

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (February 9, 1863- July 8, 1933) was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau.

Thomas Hughes (October 20, 1822- March 22, 1896) was an English lawyer, judge, politician, and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days.

John Conroy Hutcheson (1840-1897) was a British author of novels and short stories about life aboard ships at sea.

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783- November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859- June 14, 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat.

Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, 1956) is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in 2005.

Jacqueline Kelly is a New Zealand-born American writer of children's books. In 2009 her first novel, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, was published. It tells the story of a young girl growing up in Texas in 1899, learning what it means to be a woman in turn-of-the-century America, and learning about science and the natural world from her grandfather. It was a Newbery Honor Book, one runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal.

Karen Kingsbury (born June 8, 1963) is an American Christian novelist born in Fairfax, Virginia. Some of her novels are being developed into movies by The Hallmark Channel, including The Bridge, A Time to Dance (2015), and Maggie's Christmas Miracle (2017). Her Baxter Family series is being adapted into a television series.

James Arthur Kjelgaard (December 6, 1910- July 12, 1959) was an American author of young adult literature.

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy. Lewis and fellow novelist J. R. R. Tolkien were close friends. 

Hugh John Lofting (January 14, 1886- September 26, 1947) was an English author trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character of Doctor Dolittle.

J. S. Lome has been writing adventure books for over a decade.

Jon Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876- November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first  American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.

George MacDonald (December 10, 1824- September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll.

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; August 15, 1858- May 4, 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of children's literature. 

Edward Ormondroyd (bord October 8, 1925) is an American writer of children's books. He is best known for David and the Phoenix, a fantasy novel.

Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is a Chinese-born American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia. For four different books published 1975-1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. 

Gary James Paulsen (born May 17, 1939) is an American writer of young adult literature, best known for coming of age stories about the wilderness.

Sunayna Prasad has been writing stories for over several years, starting at the age of six.

Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (born June 5, 1964) is an American author. He is known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.

Cynthia Rylant (born June 6, 1954) is an American author and librarian. She has written more than 100 children's books, including works of fiction (picture books, short stories and novels), nonfiction, and poetry. Several of her books have won awards, including her novel Missing May, which won the 1993 Newbery Medal, and A Fine White Dust, which was a 1987 Newbery Honor book. 

Elizabeth George Speare (November 21, 1908 – November 15, 1994) was an American writer of children's books, best known for historical novels including two Newbery Medal winners. She has been called one of America's 100 most popular writers for children and some of her work has become mandatory reading in many schools throughout the nation.

Rebecca Stead (born January 16, 1968) is an American writer of fiction for children and teens. She won the American Newbery Medal in 2010, the oldest award in children's literature, for her second novel When You Reach Me.

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters," and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.

Robert Louis Stevenson (November 13, 1850- December 3, 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for writing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.

Theodore Langhans Taylor (June 23, 1921 – October 26, 2006) was an American author of more than 50 fiction and non-fiction books for young adult readers, including The Cay, The Weirdo (winner of the 1992 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery), Timothy of the Cay, and The Bomb.

Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, military strategist, writer and philosopher who lived in the Eastern Zhou period of ancient China. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, an influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military.

Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667- October 19, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835- April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".

Margaret O'Bannon Womack Vandercook (January 12, 1877- February 7, 1958) was an American writer of children's literature.

Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828- March 4, 1905) was a French author whose writings laid much of the foundation of modern science fiction.

Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862- March 26, 1942) was a prolific American writer remembered largely for her popular mysteries, children's books, and humorous verse.

Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (July 10, 1905- May 28, 2002) was an American journalist and author of children's books. She wrote some of the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries and creative the detective's adventurous personality.

Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress, for 2018–19. 

Johann David Wyss (May 28, 1743- January 11, 1818) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson.