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The Most Important Authors of Books For Young Adults

By K. Bucher|M. Lee Manning
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

Identified by 80% of the respondents

  • R. L. Stine

Identified by 60-79% of the respondents

  • Beverly Cleary
  • Jack London
  • Anne Frank
  • C. S. Lewis
  • Robert Frost

Identified by 50-59% of the respondents

  • Scott O'Dell
  • Langston Hughes
  • Shel Silverstein
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • E. B. White

Identified by 40-49% of the respondents

  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Ray Bradbury
  • S. E. Hinton
  • Madeleine L'Engle
  • Christopher Pike
  • Avi
  • Betsy Byars
  • Washington Irving
  • Gary Paulsen
  • Judy Blume
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Lois Lowry
  • Richard Peck

Identified by 10-39% of the respondents

  • C. S. Adler
  • Bruce Brooks
  • Patricia Clapp
  • Arthur Connan
  • Robert Cormier
  • Lois Duncan
  • Paula Fox
  • Nikki Giovanni
  • Jesse Harris
  • Irene Hunt
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Katherine Lasky
  • Jack London
  • Robin McKinley
  • Katherine Patterson
  • Ken Rappaport
  • Cynthia Rylant
  • William Sleator
  • Jerry Spinelli
  • Richie Tankersley
  • Cynthia Voight
  • Rob White
  • Paul Zindel
  • Lloyd Alexander
  • Eve Bunting
  • Bill Cleaver
  • Caroline Cooney
  • Paula Danziger
  • Paul Fleishman
  • Jean Fritz
  • Bette Greene
  • Will Hobbs
  • Shirley Jackson
  • Jim Kjelgaard
  • Marie Lee
  • Norma Fox Mazer
  • Walter Dean Myers
  • Robert Newton Peck
  • Marjorie K. Rawlings
  • Saki
  • Gary Soto
  • Nancy Springer
  • Theodore Taylor
  • Bill Wallace
  • Maia Wojciechowski
  • William Bell
  • Matt Christopher
  • Ellen Conford
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Daniel DeFoe
  • Esther Forbes
  • Jean Craighead George
  • Winston Groom
  • Dean Hughs
  • M. E. Kerr
  • Norma Klein
  • Robert Lipsyte
  • Ann McCaffrey
  • Joan Lowrey Nixon
  • Susan Beth Pfeffer
  • Lois Ruby
  • Josepha Sherman
  • Elizabeth Speare
  • Barbara Steiner
  • Julian Thompson
  • Luke Wallin
  • Jane Yolen

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