Pennsylvania Children's Authors & Illustrators

NOTE: This page is not being updated as of August 2010. We hope to resume updates once the Education Librarian position is filled. Until that time, additions to this list are not being considered.

The following children's authors and illustrators were born or resided in Pennsylvania. Where possible, a link has been provided to additional information. Suggestions for additions are welcome.

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Edward Amatetti	Laurie Halse Anderson
Katherine Ayres	Richard Ammon
Nancy Alberts	Marygrace Dulski Antkowski
Sally Hobart Alexander	Jeffrey Allon
Robert J. Antonacci	Anna Rita Atene
Sandy Asher

Arlette N. Bramer	Fred Bortz
Aliki Barnstone	Nancy Ward Balderose
Jane Buchanan	Hannah Bozylinsky
Ruth Brunner-Strosser	Margaret H. Bacon
Barbara Snedaker Bates	Marion Benasutti
Jean Horton Berg	Freda Pastor Berkowitz
Marcia McKenna Biddle	Dorothy Haworth Bonnell
Frances Williams Browin	Jackie Blumenstock
Gene Barretta

Helen Cogancherry	Cynthia Cotten
Laura Cathon	Michael Chabon
William Coles	Lynne Cherry
Gus Cazzola	Jack Coggins
Carolyn Croll	Donald E. Cook
Marty Crisp	Christopher Cleary
Clara Gillow Clark

Jenny Davis	Milton Dank
Marguerite deAngeli	Catherine Crook deCamp
Maria Demopoules

Patricia Harrison Easton	Laurie J. Edwards
Perky Edgerton	Margery Evernden

Jean Fielder	Sharon Flake
Carin T. Ford	Lisa Faustino
Harriet Fleischmann	Jane Flory

Peggie Geiszel Lindsay Barrett George	Ann K. Glassner
K.L. (Kelly) Going Lilian Gould	Bettyanne Gray
Jeannette Grise	Mort Grossman
Kitty Griffin	Leslie Davis Guccione
Kate Garchinsky	Tamara C. Gureghian
Ponder Goembel

Deborah Heiligman	Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
Margaret Hodges	Cheryl Ryan Harshman
Michael Hays	Florence Parry Heide
Henry Haynes	Carolyn Haywood
Nancy Wise Hess	Suzanne Hilton
Daphne Doward Hogstrom	Pat Hughes
Kristin Hunter	Scott Heydt
Deborah Heiligman	Barbara Hollan

Pamela Jane	Sherri Johnson
Jim Judkis	Adi-kent Thomas Jeffrey

Sally Keehn	Diane Kolb
Susan Katz	Carol Kurzweg
Ethel Kessler Leonard Kessler	Kitty Keswick
Gayle C. Krause

Marie Lamba	Marjorie Dennis Murray
David Lubar	Megan Lloyd
Ed Letven	Sarah Lee Lippincott
Laurel Elementary School	Michael Wecott Loder

Louise McClenathan	Joseph J. McCoy
Jerre Mangione	Daniel P. Mannix
Shirley Gorson Milgrim	Ruth Nulton Moore
Sharon Pierce McCullough	Joyce A. Mills
Evelyn Clarke Mott	Megan McDonald
John Manders	Stephen Manes
Andy Myer	Elizabeth Mosier
Kim McDougall	Brian Meunier

Drew Nelson	Vaunda Nelson
Donna Jo Napoli	Matt Novak

Rebecca O'Connell	Elaine M. Ominsky
Dianne Ochiltree

John Lawrence Peterson	Catherine Palladino
Lynne Rae Perkins	Marian Potter
Kathye Petrie	Mary Paladin
Edwin A. Peeples

Sidney Quinn

Barbara Robinson	Ba Rea
Jean Richards	Jean Robinson
Bernhard A. Roth	Jessie Rubenstone
Beth Bence Reinke	Kathy Rembisz

Eileen Spinelli	Judith Byron Schachner
Elizabeth Hough Sechrist	Nancy Springer
Janet Sinberg	Gloria Skurzynski
Drew Stevenson	Kimberly Sullivan
JoAnn T. Seaver	Rebecca Shapiro
Jean Conder Soule	Dorothy Stephenson
Anne Slanina	Eileen Spinelli
Suzanne Fisher Staples	Jerry Spinelli

Kathleen Thomas	Marian Davies Toth
Dane Troup	Betty Tatham
Anika Thomas	Patricia Thomas
Wendy Townsend

Nancy Van Loon	Nanine Valen

Gerald Wealer	Susan Wojciechowski
Elvira Woodruff	Judy Wolfman
Karen Waggoner	James Warhola
Johnniece Marshall Wilson	Susan Kimmel Wright
Sarah Winston	Kay Winters

Thomas Yezerski	Donald Yonker