authors and illustrators, d-f.

Authors' homepages are either by the authors themselves, educators/resource collectors, or devoted fans (especially when said author is dead). I have not listed any publisher pages; they're not usually as comprehensive. (Updated 8 23 08)

D

Roald Dahl
Michael J. Daley
Niki Daly (who is male)
Lucy Daniels
Teri Daniels
Jacqueline Davies
Sally J.K. Davies
Stephen Davies
Katie Davis
Michele Ivy Davis
Terry Davis
Marguerite Davol
Carolee Dean
Pamela Dean
Julie Reece Deaver
James M. Deem
Cynthia DeFelice
Diane de Groat
Lulu Delacre (pronounced dell-AH-kreh)
Charles de Lint and MaryAnn Harris
Corinne Demas
Christopher Denise
Tomie dePaola
Sally Derby
Sarah Dessen
Carl Deuker
Julia DeVillers
James DeVita
Anna Dewdney
Ariane Dewey (who, as I recall, went to Sarah Lawrence, too)
Kate DiCamillo
Peter Dickinson (AKA Mr. Robin McKinley)
Eilís Dillon (pronounced AY-lish)
Leo and Diane Dillon
Carol Dines
Tony DiTerlizzi
Julia Donaldson
Andrew Donkin
Michael Dooling
Paul Dowswell
Malachy Doyle
Crescent Dragonwagon, whose name inspires me
Sharon M. Draper
Malka Drucker
Diane Duane
Muriel DuBois
Ursula Dubosarsky
Kathleen Duey
Rosamond Du Jardin
Alice Faye Duncan
Lois Duncan
Madeleine Dunphy
Olivier Dunrea
Jeanne DuPrau
Julia Durango
William Durbin
Sarah Beth Durst
Silvia Duvoboy
Marianne Dyson

E

Kelly Easton
Hazel Edwards
Michelle Edwards
Daniel Ehrenhaft
Eloise (not an author)
Michael Emberley
Jonathan Emmett
Dotti Enderle
Judith Ross Enderle
Sylvia Engdahl, the first person I knew who taught an online class (ca. 1988)
Lisa Campbell Ernst
Douglas Evans

F

Warren Faidley
Terry Farish
Eleanor Farjeon, best known as the author of the poem "Morning Has Broken"
Walter Farley
Nancy Farmer (yay! finally!)
Bill Farnsworth
Matt Faulkner
Ann Fearrington
Harriet K. Feder
Jules Feiffer
Brenda Ferber
Alane Ferguson
Rachel Field
Jan Fields
Terri Fields
Anne Fine
Norman S. Finkelstein
Mary Peace Finley
Catherine Fisher
Doris Fisher
Louise Fitzhugh
Sharon G. Flake
Teresa Flavin
Paul Fleischman
Sid Fleischman (yes, he is Paul's father)
Ralph Fletcher
Alex Flinn
Pat Flynn
Warren Flynn
Antonia Forest
Mem Fox
Paula Fox (Warning: this article is very condescending in re her children's/YA books)
Hillary Frank
Alona Frankel
Debra Frasier
Marla Frazee
Freddy the Pig
Mariah Fredericks
Don Freeman
Garret Freymann-Weyr (pronounced FRY-man WIRE)
Maeve Friel
April Young Fritz
Helen Frost
Jonathon Scott Fuqua
Kimberly Newton Fusco

more resources.

Don Gallo's Authors 4 Teens
McDougall Littell has a number of excellent author/student interviews
The Internet Public Library has an "Ask the Author" page, featuring Natalie Babbitt, the late Robert Cormier, and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, among others.
Kay Vandergrift's Author/Illustrator Pages are way comprehensive.
As is Denise Ortakales' overview of women who illustrate children's books.
The Washington Children's Book Guild has lots of member sites linked.

Go to Authors A-C.
Go to Authors G-J.
Go to Authors K-O.
Go to Authors P-S.
Go to Authors T-Z.
Go back to the main children's page.
Go back to the teen survey page.
Go home.