Virginia Hamilton (1934–2002)

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1. Virginia Hamilton

   Author of M. C. Higgins, the Great, In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

2. Gary Paulsen

   Author of Dogsong, Tracker, The Monument

3. Katherine Paterson

   Author of Jacob Have I Loved, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Jip: His Story

4. Walter Dean Myers

   Author of At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England, Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary, Blues Journey

5. Betsy Byars

   Author of The Summer of the Swans, THE PINBALLS, Wanted...Mud Blossom

6. Joseph Krumgold

   Author of Onion John, ...and now Miguel

7. Russell Freedman

   Author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Clarion Nonfiction), Children of the Wild West

8. Mildred D. Taylor

   Author of Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Road to Memphis, The Friendship/The Gold Cadillac

9. Cynthia Rylant

   Author of Missing May, A Fine White Dust, Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds

10. Richard Peck

    Author of A Long Way from Chicago, A Year Down Yonder

11. Pat McKissack

    Author of Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman, The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, Christmas In The Big House: Christmas in the Quarters

12. Paula Fox

    Author of The Slave Dancer, One-Eyed Cat, Eagle Kite

13. Paul Fleischman

    Author of Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Bull Run, The Borning Room

14. Laurence Yep

    Author of Dragonwings, Dragon's Gate, Hiroshima

15. Christopher Paul Curtis

    Author of Bud, Not Buddy, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963

16. Avi

    Author of Don't You Know There's a War On?, Blue Heron, Bright Shadow

17. E. L. Konigsburg

    Author of The View from Saturday, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, T-backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit

18. Irene Hunt

    Author of Across Five Aprils, Up a Road Slowly

19. Karen Hesse

    Author of Out of the Dust, The Music of Dolphins, Phoenix Rising

20. Scott O'Dell

    Author of Sing Down the Moon, The Black Pearl, Sarah Bishop (Point)