William Steig Ray Bial Patricia Polacco Cynthia Rylant E.B. White Chris Van Alsburg Joseph Bruchac Octavia E Butler Lois Lowery Mary Pope Osborne Matt Warshore Ann A. Martin Barbara Park Joseph Mitchell Robert Benchley S. J. Perelman Anthony Hill Anton Chekov Andy Griffiths Katherine Paterson Ann Rule Morris Gleitzman James Thurber Joseph Campbell Paul Jennings John Marsden Richard Russo Howard Phillips Lovecraft David Sedaris Charles Dickens Terry Pratchett