Author Biographies & Autobiographies

Author: A True Story, Helen Lester

Borrowed Finery, Paula Fox

Dear Mem Fox, I Have Read All Your Books Even the Pathetic Ones, And Other Incidents in the Life Of a Children’s Book Author, Mem Fox

A Girl From Yamhill, Beverly Cleary

How I Came To Be a Writer, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Invitations To The World: Teaching and Writing for the Young, Richard Peck

It’s Great To Be Eight, Stories by various children’s book authors

Knots in My Yo-yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid, Jerry Spinelli

Looking Back, Lois Lowry

Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon, Leonard Marcus

Margaret Wise Brown, Author of Goodnight Moon (A Rookie Biography) Carol Greene

Meet the Author Series, Richard C. Owen Publishers

Memories: An Autobiography, Mem Fox

The Moon & I, Betsy Byars

My Own Two Feet: A Memoir, Beverly Cleary

Pauses: Autobiographical Reflections of 101 Creators of Children’s Books, Lee Bennett Hopkins

Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living, Mem Fox

The Spying Heart: More Thoughts on Reading and Writing Books for Children, Katherine Paterson

Talk Talk: A Children’s Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups, E.L. Konigsburg

On Writing For Children & Other People, Julius Lester

When I Was Your Age: Original Stories About Growing Up, various children’s book authors, edited by Amy Ehrlich