Research Guides: Young Adult Literature: Authors

Databases

Something About the Author (Gale Literature) This link opens in a new window
Biographical or autobiographical information for authors and illustrators of children's and young adult books.
TeachingBooks.net This link opens in a new window
A combination of original author interviews, readings and videos with a structured portal to open-access Web sites on children's literature and literacy.
Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
Searches across several Gale literary databases, including Literature Criticism, Gale eBooks - Biography & Literature collections, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Something About the Author (biographical and critical information on children's and YA authors). Formerly named Gale Literary Sources, Artemis Literary.
NOTE: If you have difficulty navigating the documents that are scans from books, try downloading it as a PDF, the download icon is on the top right.

Margaret Edwards Award
This annual award honors an author and their body of work for lifetime achievement in books for teens.
List of Top Authors
This list contains information about databases sources and approximate number of titles found at EWU and Summit.
YALSA's Teen Top Ten
Here is a link to the top ten list for Teen picks

TeachingBooks.net This link opens in a new window
A combination of original author interviews, readings and videos with a structured portal to open-access Web sites on children's literature and literacy.