Authors and Books
for Children

Barely older than the heroine she wrote about, Clair Blank created Beverly Gray, one of the first career-girl sleuths and the heroine of a long-running series. Go to article.

A nurse herself, Helen Dore Boylston drew on her own experiences in writing the Sue Barton series; she also wrote the Carol Page series about a young actress. Go to article.

Betty Cavanna's books, from the classic Going on Sixteen to the Connie Blair series (as Betsy Allen), offer reassuring views of growing up female. Go to article.

A journalist, a theater critic, and a part of the Viennese coffeehouse culture, Felix Salten today is best remembered as the author of Bambi. Go to article.

Writing as Margaret Sidney, Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop brought to life the Pepper family in their little brown house in Badgerton. Go to article.

A former stage actress, Noel Streatfeild often used her theatrical background in her books for children and adults, especially in her popular "Shoes" books. Go to article.

Meaning and morality in sports, pitfalls of fame and hero worship, commercialization of sports--these themes still resonate, more than seventy-five years after sportswriter and children's author John R. Tunis began writing about them. Go to article.

For sixty years, Phyllis A. Whitney regularly delivered the best in romantic suspense for adult readers--but her remarkable literary output also includes books for younger readers. Go to article.

Best known for Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates wrote both fiction and nonfiction for young people, often focusing on humanitarian and environmental concerns. Go to article.