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The following is a List of authors by name whose last names begin with K: Abbreviations: ch = children's; d = drama, screenwriting; f = fiction; nf = non-fiction; p ...
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932) [1] is an 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.
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (born June 24, 1967) is an American children's and young adult book author. In 2016, her children's book The War That Saved My Life received the Newbery Honor Award and was named to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year List with an "Outstanding Merit" distinction and won the Committee's Josette Frank Award for fiction.
In 1967, Kearns went to Washington, D.C., as a White House Fellow during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. [17] Johnson initially expressed interest in hiring the young intern as his Oval Office assistant, but after an article by Kearns appeared in The New Republic laying out a scenario for Johnson's removal from office over his conduct of the war in Vietnam, she was, instead, assigned to ...
Alex and Brett Harris wrote the best-selling book Do Hard Things (2008), a non-fiction book challenging teenagers to "rebel against low expectations", at age 19. Two years later came a follow-up book called Start Here (2010). Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) wrote The Black Moth when she was 17 and received a publishing contract when she was 18 ...
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J. K. Rowling: 600 million [12] 650 million [13] English Harry Potter among other works 22 British Eiichiro Oda: 530 million [14] 535 million [c] Japanese: Manga, One Piece: 110 Japanese: Enid Blyton: 400 million [24] 600 million [25] English Children's literature, Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven: 800 British Jackie Collins: 400 ...
Among the other books by Kozol are Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, which received the Robert F. Kennedy Book award for 1989 and the Conscience-in-Media Award of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, which won the New England Book Award and was a finalist ...