List of young adult fiction writers

Liz Rosenberg: "Heart and Soul", "17: A Novel in Prose Poems"

Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back
Richard Adams: Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs
Lloyd Alexander: Prydain Chronicles, Westmark, Kestral, The Beggar Queen
David Almond: Kit's Wilderness
Elaine M. Alphin: Counterfeit Son
Julia Alvarez: Before We Were Free, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Yo!
Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak
Kim Antieau: Mercy, Unbound
Maya Angelou (primarily a poet): I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Heart of a Woman
Allen Appel, Twice Upon a Time
Avi: Nothing But the Truth, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
T.A. Barron: The Ancient One
Lynda Barry, cartoonist, graphic novelist
Lois Thompson Bartholomew: The White Dove
Joan Bauer: Rules of the Road, Squashed, Stand Tall
Martin Bertram: Vanity of Vanities
Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Baby Be-Bop, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Judy Blume: Forever, Tiger Eyes
Ray Bradbury (primarily an author of science fiction): Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Robin F. Brancato: Facing Up, Winning
Ann Brashares: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Heather Brewer: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series.
Lauren Brooke: Heartland and Chestnut Hill series.
Kevin Brooks: Candy
Eve Bunting: A Sudden Silence
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Meg Cabot: The Princess Diaries, All-American Girl
Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn Chronicles, Legendsong Saga
Michael Chabon (primarily an author of adult fiction): Summerland
Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Alice Childress: A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich
Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
Mary Higgins Clark (primarily an author of adult romance/mystery fiction)
Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver: Where the Lillies Bloom
Brock Cole: The Goats
Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl
Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier: My Brother Sam is Dead
Ellen Conford: We Interrupt this Semester for an Important Bulletin
Pam Conrad: My Daniel
Caroline B. Cooney: The Face on the Milk Carton, Twenty Pageants Later, Driver's Ed
Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising series
Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War, After the First Death, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Fade, I Am the Cheese, Tenderness, We All Fall Down
Sharon Creech: Walk Two Moons
Linda Crew: Children of the River
Chris Crutcher: Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Stotan!, Whaletalk
Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963, Bud Not Buddy
Karen Cushman: Catherine Called Birdy
Roald Dahl (primarily an author of adult fiction): Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach
Maureen Daly: Seventeenth Summer
Paula Danziger: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The Divorce Express
Terry Davis: Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, If Rock & Roll Were a Machine
Sarah Dessen: Dreamland, Keeping the Moon The Truth About Forever
Carl Deuker: Heart of a Champion and other sports stories
Kate Dicamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie
Peter Dickinson: Eva
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the Sherlock Holmes stories, which were written initially for an adult readership
Ann Downer: The Spellkey, The Glass Salamander, The Books of the Keepers
Diane Duane: Young Wizards series
Lois Duncan: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, Summer of Fear
Nancy Farmer: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm; House of the Scorpion
Sharon G. Flake: The Skin I'm In, Money Hungry
Paul Fleischman: Whirligig
Alex Flinn: Breathing Underwater
Antonia Forest: Peter's Room; Thuggery Affair; The Attic Term
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
E. R. Frank: Wrecked
Valerie Frankel: Fringe Girl
Paula Fox: One-Eyed Cat, The Slave Dancer
Benedict & Nancy Freedman: Mrs. Mike
Russell Freedman: Lincoln: a Photobiography, The Life and Death of Crazy Horse, Eleanor Roosevelt: a Life Discovered and other nonfiction
Jack Gantos: Joey Pigza stories, Hole in My Life (autobiography of his youth)
Nancy Garden: Annie on my Mind, The Year They Burned the Books
Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Elidor, The Owl Service, Red Shift
Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain, Julie
Gail Giles: Shattering Glass
Parke Godwin: The Tower of Beowulf
Bette Greene: Summer of My German Soldier
Rosa Guy: The Friends, The Disappearance
Margaret Peterson Haddix: Among the Hidden, Among the Imposters and sequels
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Shannon Hale; Princess Academy
Lisi Harrison: The Clique
James Haskins (primarily an author of non-fiction): Fighting Shirley Chisolm, The Geography of Hope
Louise Hawes: The Vanishing Point, Waiting for Christopher, Rosey in the Present Tense
Pete Hautman Godless, Invisible
Ann Head: Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
Robert A. Heinlein: (primarily an author of science fiction) Red Planet
Nat Hentoff (primarily an author of adult non-fiction): Does This School Have Capital Punishment?
Julie Hearn: The Minister's Daughter
Karen Hesse: Out of the Dust, Witness (novels in verse)
Carl Hiaasen: Hoot and Flush
S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders, Rumblefish, Tex
Will Hobbs: Bearstone, Far North, Ghost Canoe, Kokopelli's Flute
Alice Hoffman: Green Angel
Nina Kiriki Hoffman: (primarily an author of science fiction)
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
Brian Jacques: Redwall and sequels
Paul B. Janeczeko, editor of poetry anthologies for teens, e.g. Don't Forget to Fly
Angela Johnson: Heaven
Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie
M.E. Kerr: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Little Little, Night Kites, Deliver Us from Evie, Fell, Gentlehands
Stephen King (primarily an author of adult horror fiction): Carrie, Christine, Cujo
Gordon Korman: Bruno and Boots series beginning with This Can't Be Happening at McDonald Hall; Jake, Reinvented
David Klass: Danger Zone, You Don't Know Me
Annette Curtis Klause: The Silver Kiss, Blood and Chocolate
E.L. Konigsburg: Silent to the Bone
Ron Koertge: Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright
Kathryn Lasky: Beyond the Burning Time, True North
Ursula K. Le Guin (equally an author of adult fiction): A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness and other science fiction titles
Billie Letts: Where The Heart Is
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, Polly O'Keefe series, Austin family series, etc.
Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted
Lori Lansens: The Girls: A Novel
Gail Carson Levine; The Wish
C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia series
Robert Lipsyte: The Brave, The Chief, The Contender, One Fat Summer
Wendy Loggia: Ever After: A Cinderella Story
Lois Lowry: The Giver, The Silent Boy, Number the Stars.
Louisa Luna: Brave New Girl
Chris Lynch: Whitechurch
Adeline Yen Mah: Falling Leaves: The Memoirs of A Unwanted Chinese Daughter, Chinese Cinderella : The True Story of A Unwanted Daughter, Chinese Cinderella and The Secret Dragon Society
Melina Marchetta Saving Francesca
Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country
Sue Mayfield: Drowning Anna
Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern series and other fantasy titles
Joyce McDonald: Swallowing Stones, Shadow People, Shades of Simon Gray
Robin McKinley: Beauty, The Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End
Norma and Harry Mazer: Heartbeat
Ben Mikaelsen: Petey, Touching Spirit Bear
Milton Meltzer (primarily an author of nonfiction): Underground Man (historical fiction)
Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
Jaclyn Moriarty: The Year Of Secret Assignments, Feeling Sorry For Celia: A Novel
Walter Dean Myers: Fallen Angels, Hoops, Monster, The Mouse Rap, Outside Shot, Scorpions, Slam, Bad Boy (autobiography of his youth), Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
Lauren Myracle: ttyl, ttfn, Rhymes with Witches
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Ice, Shiloh
Joan Lowery Nixon: The Other Side of Dark
Andre Norton (psuedonym): The Stars Are Ours, Star Gate, other science fiction
Joyce Carol Oates (primarily an author of adult fiction): Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Sean Olin: Killing Britney
Zibby Oneal: The Language of Goldfish
Thomas Rockwell: How To Eat Fried Worms
Linda Sue Park: A Single Shard, When My Name Was Keoko
Francine Pascal: Sweet Valley High Senior Year
Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved, Lyddie
Gary Paulsen: Hatchet, Canyons, The Island, The River, Brian's Winter, Nightjohn, Sarney, Soldier's Heart, Dogsong
Richard Peck: Are You in the House Alone?, Father Figure, The Last Safe Place on Earth, Long Way from Chicago, Princess Ashley, Year Down Yonder
Robert Newton Peck: Clunie, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Extra Innings
Julie Anne Peters: "Keeping You A Secret", "Define Normal"
Rodman Philbrick: Freak the Mighty, The Fire Pony
Christopher Pike (author): The Season of Passage, Chain Letter and other thrillers
Tamara Pierce: Alanna: The First Adventure, Emperor Mage, Protector of the Small: Squire
Connie Porter: Imani All Mine
Francine Prose (primarily an author of adult fiction): After
Philip Pullman: Ruby in the Smoke, Broken Bridge, The White Mercedes, The Tin Princess, His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, I Was a Rat!
Ellen Raskin: "The Westing Game", "Figgs & Phantoms".
Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows
Carolyn Reeder: Shades of Gray
Celia Rees: Witch Child, Sorceress
Ann Rinaldi: A Break for Charity, The Last Silk Dress, Numbering All the Bones, Wolf by the Ears, and other historical fiction
J.K. Rowling: the Harry Potter series: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Cynthia Rylant: Missing May
Louis Sachar: Holes
Graham Salisbury: Shark Bait, Island Boyz: Short Stories, Lord of the Deep, Under the Blood-Red Sun, Jungle Dogs
Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say
Kieran Scott: I Was A Non-Blonde Cheerleader
Lisa See: Snow Flower and The Secret Fan
Dyan Sheldon: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Neal Shusterman: The Dark Side of Nowhere, Downsiders, What Daddy Did
William Sleator: House of Stairs, Singularity, The Boy Who Reversed Himself, Intersteller Pig (primarily high concept sci-fi)
Lemony Snicket (psuedonym): The A Series of Unfortunate Events series
Sonya Sones: What My Mother Doesn't Know
Gary Soto: Afterlife, Baseball in April and other Stories
Beatrice Sparks (publishing as 'Anonymous'): Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal and others
Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Jerry Spinelli: There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, Crash
Nancy Springer: I am Mordred, I am Morgan le Fay
R.L. Stine (primarily an author of YA thriller fiction): Goosebumps and Fear Street series
Rosemary Sutcliff: (primarily an author of historical fiction): The Eagle of the Ninth
Janet Tashjian: The Gospel According to Larry
Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, The Land
Jean Thesman: Appointment with a Stranger, Cattail Moon
Joyce Carol Thomas: Marked by Fire
Vivian Vande Velde: Heir Apparent, Never Trust a Dead Man
Cynthia Voigt: Come a Stranger, Dicey's Song, Homecoming, Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Solitary Blue, Sons from Afar
Sarah Weeks: So B. It
Rosemary Wells: Through the Hidden Door
Nancy Werlin: The Killer's Cousin
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Trilogy; Uglies, Pretties, and Specials
Elie Wiesel: Night
Ellen Wittlinger: Heart on My Sleeve, Hard Love, What's in A Name
Virginia Euwer Wolff: True Believer,"Making Lemonade"
Jacqueline Woodson: Miracle's Boys
Patricia C. Wrede: Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Richard Wright (primarily an author of works for adults): Black Boy (autobiography of his youth)
Diana Wynne Jones: Chrestomanci series, Dalemark Quartet, Dogsbody, Eight Days of Luke, Fire and Hemlock, Power of Three
Laurence Yep
Jane Yolen: Heart's Blood, Briar Rose
David Yoo: Girls for Breakfast
Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere
Paul Zindel: The Pigman, The Pigman's Legacy, I Never Loved Your Mind, My Darling My Hamburger, The Pigman's Legacy (autobiography of his youth)