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Children’s Authors

  1. Australian Authors
    The following links provide information about Australian authors for children.
    • General Sites & Portals
      Includes link listings, general information, award information, illustrators and more.
      • Australian Authors and Illustrators
        ‘The aim of this list is to make available official websites of authors who have had books entered for the Children’s Book of the Year Awards.’
      • Australian Authors and Illustrators for Young People
        ‘Includes websites and web pages with information on authors and illustrators of Australian children’s and young adult works and a number of adult works of interest to school students.’
        A really good collection.
      • Australian Authors of Children’s Books
        A listing of children’s authors from Australia with links also to a range of international authors.
      • Forrest Primary School
        “Australian Authors & Illustrators”. Links to both lists of links at other sites and links to specific authors.
        A really good collection.
      • Kids Authors & Illustrators
        An extensive alphabetical listing from Scholastic books, some of which are included below.
      • Lu Rees Archives of Australian Children’s Literature
        Extensive listing, but web links to author/illustrator pages are limited.
      • YARA Older Readers
        ‘The YARA Older Readers website is devoted to teenage/young adult readers and features reviews of novels written by Australian and overseas authors. Audio titles are also included and we have a section devoted to verse novels from around the world.’
    • Specific Australian Children’s Authors
      Also includes information regarding illustration.
      • Baker, Jeannie
        Author and illustrator. The creator of books such as ‘The Hidden Forest’ and ‘Where the Forest Meets the Sea’.
      • Base, Graeme
        Author of ‘Animalia’ and ‘The Eleventh Hour’.
      • Fox, Mem
        Australian author of children’s stories that include ‘Possum Magic’ and ‘Koala Lou’ ’.
      • Gleitzman, Morris
        Australian author of very popular books for children including ‘Misery Guts’ and ‘Two Weeks with the Queen’.
      • Jennings, Paul
        Very popular Australian children’s author of titles such as ‘Unreal’, ‘The Gizmo’ and ‘Unbelievable’. Now writing jointly with Morris Gleitzman.
      • Klein, Robin
        Author of children’s books such ‘Hating Alison Ashley’ and ‘Penny Pollard’s Diary’.
      • Marsden, John
        Writing mostly for teenagers and including titles such as ‘Out of Time’ and ‘The Other Side of Dawn’.
      • Park, Ruth
        Australian author of books including ‘The Harp in The South’ and ‘Playing Beattie Bow’.
      • Rodda, Emily
        Author of such diverse books as ‘Something Special’ through to the ‘Deltora Quest’ series.
      • Thiele, Colin
        Author of Australian books such as ‘Blue Fin’ and ‘Storm Boy’.
      • Vivas, Julie
        Author or illustrator of such classics as ‘Possum Magic’ and ‘The Nativity’.
      • Wild, Margaret
        Author of books for young and old, including ‘Woolvs in the Sitee’ and ‘Jinx’.
    • International Children’s Authors
      The following provide information about international authors for children.

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A - F

  1. American Authors, General
    Both fiction and non-fiction authors not included in other genres & groups.
    • American Writers
      Information on a collection of American writers from Thomas Jefferson to Betty Friedan done in several groupings. Most well known classical writers are included.
    • Burroughs, Edgar Rice
      All the literary works, compliments of the Online Literature Library.
    • Grey, Zane
      For those who remember the heyday of westerns.
    • King, Stephen
      Author of a range of ‘scary’ books, one of the latest being ‘Riding the Bullet’.
    • Miller, Arthur
      Dramatist, writer - ‘Death of a Salesman’ one of the best known.
    • Poe, Edgar Allan
      All the literary works, compliments of the Online Literature Library.
    • Robbins, Tom
      Included among his novels are ‘Jitterbug, Perfume’ and ‘Skinny Legs and All’.
    • The Steinbeck Centre
      Everything you wanted to know about the author of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ and other novels.
  2. Australian Authors
    The following will provide information about a range of Australian authors of various formats, fiction and non-fiction.
    • Fiction :
      • Carey, Peter
        Australian author of ‘The Illywhacker’, ‘Bliss’, ‘A True History of the Kelly Gang’ and ‘Oscar and Lucinda’. Dual Booker Prize Winner.
      • Clancy, Anne
        Author of historical, romance novels some of which are set in outback Australia.
      • Courtenay, Bryce
        Australian based author of ‘The Power of One’, ‘The Potato Factory’, ‘Tandia’, ‘Brother Fish’ and ‘Tommo & Hawk’.
      • Douglass, Sara
        Australian author of fantasy books, highly regarded worldwide, including ‘Crusader’ and ‘The Nameless Day’.
      • Keneally, Thomas
        Australian author of novels such as ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith’.
      • Lawson, Henry or Henry Lawson
        Quintessential writer of novels and short stories about Australian life such as ‘The Loaded Dog’ and ‘While the Billy Boils’.
      • Malouf, David
        Australian author of novels such as ‘Harland’s Half Acre’, ‘An Imaginary Life’ and ‘Johnno’.
      • Moorhouse, Frank
        Australian author [Miles Franklin Award winner] of books such as ‘Dark Palace’ and ‘Grand Days’ and short stories such as ‘Room Service’ [collected stories].
      • Paterson, A.B.
        Primarily a poet with some of his best known works being icons of Australian literature - ‘The Man from Snowy River’ being just one.
      • Reilly, Matthew
        Young Australian author of action novels such as ‘Contest’, ‘Ice Station’ and ‘Temple’.
      • West, Morris
        Australian author of such novels as ‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’.
      • White, Patrick
        Australian Nobel Prize winner and best known as the author of ‘The Tree of Man’.
      • Winton, Tim
        Novelist of titles such as ‘The Riders’, ‘Cloudstreet’, ‘Dirt Music’ and ‘In the Winter Dark’.
    • General Sites & Portals :
      • Australian Authors
        Not a complete listing but not bad all the same. Quite a lot of information is covered.
      • Australian Society of Authors, The
        ‘The professional association for Australia’s literary creators.’
      • Australian Writers
        Links grouped under various genre.
      • Black Words
        ‘Black Words provides access to both general and specific information about Indigenous literary cultures and traditions, providing definitions and articulations of what Black writing and Indigenous literatures are.’
      • Penguin Author Profiles
        ‘More than 1 000 biographical profiles of authors and illustrators, published by Penguin Books Australia, are available. Browse the alphabetical list of all profiles, or search for a specific author by name.’
      • Puffin Author Profiles
        ‘Biographical profiles of authors and illustrators, published by Puffin Books Australia, are available. Browse the alphabetical list of all profiles, or search for a specific author by name.’
    • Non-Fiction :
      • Blainey, Geoffrey
        Australian writer with titles such as ‘Tyranny of Distance’, ‘Triumph of the Nomads’, ‘A Land Half Won’ and ‘A Short History of The World’.
      • Clark, Manning
        Australian historian, best known for his 6 volume ‘A History of Australia’.
      • Flannery, Tim
        Scientific and historical writer of titles such as ‘The Future Eaters’, ‘The Weather Makers’ and ‘Throwim Way Leg’.
      • James, Clive
        Expatriate broadcaster and writer with titles such as ‘Unreliable Memoirs’, ‘Falling Towards England’ and several books of reviews.
      • Reynolds, Henry
        Author of works about Indigenous Auistralians including ‘The Other Side of The Frontier’ and ‘Fate of a Free People’.
  3. Awards & Prizes
    A number of major awards are given regularly. Among the most prestigious are the following.
    • 2008 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
      ‘A new initiative celebrating the contribution of Australian literature to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life. The awards recognise literature’s importance to our national identity, community and economy.’
    • Australian Literary Awards & Prizes
      [List of]
      Covers all areas of writing. Links have connections to further information. From wikipedia.
    • Bilby Award Winners
      ‘The Bilby Award is awarded annually by the Queensland Branch of the Children’s Book Council Awards.’
    • Book Awards [1]
      An extensive listing of links which connect to book awards around the world.
    • Book Awards [2]
      Created by the Western Australian Department of Education, it provides links for Australian, New Zealand and International Awards.
    • Book Awards [3]
      Created by BookSpot. It lists a range of awards under the headings Major Awards, Major Genres and Other Genres.
    • Booker Prize
      Prestigious British prize for writing. Won several times by Australians.
    • Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Awards
      This lists not only the CBCA awards but also provides links to a range of other Children’s Book Awards both in Australia and overseas.
    • Kiriyama Prize
      ‘Established in 1996 to recognize outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this vast and culturally diverse region.’
    • Miles Franklin Award
      Australian prize for writing, given annually.
    • Nobel Prize Winners
      All the literature prize winners since 1901 with biography, books and other links.
    • Pulitzer Prize
      Not only for publishing but also for fiction and non-fiction, poetry, even photography.
    • YABBA
      ‘The Children’s Choice Book Award in Victoria.’
  4. Classic Novels, Authors of :
    • Jane Austen Page
      The author of ‘Emma’ and numerous other classic works. Often part of literature studies.
    • Bronte, Anne, Bronte, Charlotte & Bronte, Emily
      Make up the Bronte Sisters Trilogy of authors. These cover everything from their lives through their books, study guides, web links and more.
    • Chaucer, Geoffrey
      After Shakespeare, one of the greatest of the English writers.
      • Chaucer, Geoffrey [1]
        ‘An annotated guide to online resources. The purpose of this site is not to duplicate the vast amount of Chaucer material that has appeared on the internet in the last five years, but to sift and sort.’
      • Chaucer, Geoffrey [2]
      • Chaucer, Geoffrey [3]
        ‘The Canterbury Tales’ and other medieval writings.
      • Chaucer MetaPage, The
        Find other pages, his works, bibliography, his life and times, other medieval times and information about those who run the site.
      • Chaucer Metapage Audio Files, The
        Listen to many of his works read in Middle English by a range of professors. You need Real Audio to listen to the files.
    • Conrad, Joseph
      Author of ‘Lord Jim’ and ‘Heart of Darkness’ to name a few. Also try Joseph Conrad.
    • Dickens, Charles
      Author of a number of novels including ‘David Copperfield’, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, etc.. Also try Charles Dickens.
    • Great 19th Century Authors
      Includes such diverse authors as Mark Twain and Victor Hugo.
    • Joyce, James
      Author of ‘Ulysses’, said to be the best book of the last 100 years.
    • Melville, Herman
      Author of ‘Moby Dick’ and other novels.
    • Shaw, George Bernard
      Author of many forms of writing including ‘Pygmalion’, ‘Saint Joan’ and ‘Major Barbara’. Nobel Prize winner.
    • Shelley, Mary
      Author of ‘Frankinstein’.
    • Tolstoy, Leo
      Read the introduction, find out his writings including a range of e-texts, look at a gallery of photos of Tolstoy and his family and home, find other resources and more at this well developed site.
    • Verne, Jules [2]
      Author of ‘20 000 Leagues under the Sea’ and other novels. Also check for another Jules Verne site.
    • Virginia Woolf Society, The International
      Considered to have the best collection of Virginia Woolf resources anywhere on the web. If you are looking for general information, etexts, research material, web links to other sites, publishers of her books and much more, this is the site for you.
    • Wilde, Oscar - An Overview
      17 directories covering every aspect of Wilde, his life, his times, his works and everything else you would want to know about him and his writings.
  5. Crime & Mystery Authors :

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G - L

  1. General Fiction, Authors of
    Does not include links based in other genres or groupings, e.g., American or Australian authors.
    • Doyle, Roddy
      Irish author of such great novels as ‘The Commitments’, ‘The Van’, ‘Paddy Clark Ha! Ha! Ha!’ and more.
    • Frank, Anne
      The Dutch teenager who wrote about her life in World War II.
    • O’Brian, The World of Patrick
      Find information about the author and the novels by the author of ‘Master & Commander’.
  2. General Sites & Portals :
    • 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945, The
      From the Times Online. Check them out and see if you agree [or even if you know all of them !].
    • a.k.a.
      ‘Also known as author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalised names, pen names, noms de plume, maiden names, … etc..’ More than 11 500 entries are given.
    • A Range of Author’s Home Pages
      Find some of your favourite authors by going [a] to this page and then looking at [b] the genres where more authors are listed. Now part of the Barnes & Noble site.
    • About Authors
      Find out about a range of authors.
    • Authors on the Web
      A wide listing of world authors [including Nobel Prize winners] with links to each. Grouped alphabetically.
    • Authors on the Web [2]
      Different to the above. Variety of sections covering authors, bibliographies, novels, links to web pages, etc..
    • Author Page, The
      From the Internet Public Library comes this linkage to most of the better known authors from around the world.
    • Books Online : Authors
      A means of finding online texts of authors from A to Z.
    • Celebration of Women Writers
      Connections to a range of women writers from Dorothy Parker to Virginia Woolf.
    • Inkwell Newswatch
      This site is for, rather than about, authors. A ‘Free online database includes 40+ genres of writing resources, funds for writers, job listings, education, open submission calls, research library, forums and more. It is a professional writing resource site for writers, editors and publishers of all genres.’
    • Literary Encyclopedia, The
      Simple searches will provide information on authors, books or topics. Complex searches will provide information on groups of the same. You can also build timelines.
    • Litweb.net
      Find biographies of 500+ authors plus a wide range of related information and links.
    • Online Literary Criticism Collection
      [Internet Public Library] about 5 000 sites about authors and their works.

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M - R

  1. Modern Classic Authors :
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  2. Non-Fiction Authors :
    • Bryson, Bill
      Humorous American travel and language writer of books such ‘Notes From a Small Island’, ‘Down Under’ and ‘Mother Tongue’.
    • Drucker, Peter
      Author of a series of management advice books.
    • Gould, Stephen Jay
      Outstanding scientist/philosopher who wrote a series including ‘The Flamingo’s Smile’ and ‘The Panda’s Thumb’. Also - Stephen Jay Gould

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S - Z

  1. Science Fiction & Fantasy :
    • Adams, Douglas
      Author of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ and other fantastic future oriented works.
    • Asimov, Isaac
      Read all about a great novelist and scientist, author of the Foundation series, ‘I Robot’, another 100+ novels, short stories, etc..
    • Bradbury, Ray
      One of the earlier but classic, Science Fiction writers.
    • LeGuin, Ursula K.
      Writer of a wide range of fantasy books including ‘The Farthest Shore’ and ‘The Compass Rose’.
    • McCaffery, Anne
      Science fiction writer for all levels. The ‘Dragons of Pern’ series is probably best known.
    • Pratchett, Terry
      Probably best known for his extensive series of books related to Discworld. Magic [usually bad !] and humour are dominant.
    • Vonnegut, Kurt
      Author of such Science Fiction classics as ‘Player Piano’, ‘Slaughterhouse Five’ and ‘Cat’s Cradle’.
  2. Special Authors :
    • Eco, Umberto
      Author of ‘The Name of The Rose’, ‘Island of the Day Before Yesterday’, ‘Foucault’s Pendulum’ and a great deal more, both in fiction and semiotics. Absolutely brilliant language and ideas.
      Highly recommended.
    • Thoreau, Henry D.
      Writer of a series of books and essays relating to natural life. ‘Walden’ is the best known.
  3. Software for Authoring :
    • Book Writing Software
      ‘I put together this listing of the most popular writing tools available. Follow the link in the table listing to review each software package. Many companies allow you to demo or download trial versions of their screenplay software and writing software.’
      All are Fee-based.
    • yWriter - Word Processor for Authors
      Free novel writing software that makes the writing task easier than ever. Another source, though Not free for this skill can be found at WriteItNow which ‘runs under Windows & Mac, allowing you to write creatively and intuitively without logical tasks interfering with the flow of your ideas.

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