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Renée Watson (born July 29, 1978) is an American teaching artist and author of children's books, best known for her award-winning and New York Times bestselling young adult novel Piecing Me Together, [1] for which she received the John Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Josette Frank Award for fiction.
Dean was born in Manchester [4] and grew up in Hayfield, Derbyshire.She graduated from Robinson College, Cambridge in 2008 [5] with a degree in English literature. [1] [6] After her degree she took a law conversion course, eventually specialising in information technology law, in which she has had a career. [1]
Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times, [1] Globe and Mail, [2] and USA Today [3] bestselling author of eighteen novels, including her most recent, The Secret Book of Flora Lea. She is also a podcast host and public speaker. Her novels often explore themes of love, loss, personal transformation, and the power of storytelling.
"Cancel All Plans for the Book You Can't Put Down Award" - Dead Good Books at the Harrogate Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in 2019 [12] Our Little Cruelties [13] Nominated for 'Crime Novel of the Year' at the 2020 An Post Irish Book Awards [14] Listed by the New York Times as one of 7 recommended thrillers of 2020 [15]
Nina Kiriki Hoffman (primarily an author of science fiction): A Stir of Bones, Spirits That Walk in Shadow; Linda Holeman: Promise Song, Mercy's Birds, Raspberry House Blues; Jennifer Holm: Our Only May Amelia, Boston Jane; Stevin Hoover: The Hannah Chronicles: Book One, The Door in the Floor; Cathy Hopkins: Mates, Dates series, Cinnamon Girl ...
Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, The Orphan Master's Son, and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection Fortune Smiles.
Rebecca Parish [1] was born in Conway, Arkansas, in 1971. [2] She was adopted as a child by white parents, and raised in northern Texas. She has said that "being a black and Native kid in Fort Worth in the '70s and '80s was pretty limiting"; thus, she turned to reading and writing, especially science fiction, as a form of escape.
Leila Mottley (born 2002) is an American novelist and poet. [1] She is The New York Times bestselling author of Nightcrawling, which was a nominated for numerous awards, including the Booker Prize, making her the youngest author to have been nominated for the award.