The Most Important Authors of Books For Young Adults

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