Chesterfield County Public Library

Virginia Authors

Listed below are authors who were either born and/or raised in Virginia or who lived in Virginia at a later time in their lives. Listed with each author is the title of one of his/her best-known works for children and/or young adults. Check the library catalog or with library staff for more titles by these authors.

Andrews, V.C. - Author of Flowers in the Attic

Armstrong, William Howard - Author of Sounder

Ashabranner, Brent - Author of Still a Nation of Immigrants

Branch, Muriel Miller - Author of The Water Brought Us: The Story of the Gullah-Speaking People

Brooks, Bruce - Author of The Moves Make the Man

Brown, Margaret Wise - Author of Goodnight Moon

Cargill, Linda - Author of Pool Party

Carlson, Natalie Savage - Author of The Family Under the Bridge

Carris, Joan - Author of Stolen Bones

Conly, Jane Leslie - Author of Crazy Lady

Dakos, Kalli - Author of Don't Read This Book Whatever You Do: More Poems About School

De Haven, Tom - Author of The Orphan's Tent

Edwards, Pamela Duncan - Author of Some Smug Slug

Fleisher, Paul - Author of The Master Violinmaker

Hall, Barbara - Author of Dixie Storms

Kassem, Lou - Author of A Haunting in Williamsburg

Larrick, Nancy G. - Author of The Night of the Whippoorwill

Lyons, Mary - Author of Letters From a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs

Paterson, Katherine - Author of Jacob Have I Loved

Poe, Edgar Allan - Author of Eight Tales of Terror

Porte, Barbara Ann - Author of When the Whippoorwill Calls

Rattigan, Jama Kim - Author of Truman's Aunt Farm

Ruemmler, John - Author of Smoke on the Water: A Novel of Jamestown and the Powhatans

Rylant, Cynthia - Author of The Relatives Came

Sargent, Sarah- Author of Weird Henry Berg

Seabrooke, Brenda - Author of The Haunting of Holroyd Hill

Sharpe, Susan - Author of Trouble at Marsh Harbor

Shreve, Susan - Author of The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates

Slyder, Ingrid - Author of The Fabulous Flying Fandinis

Stoeke, Janet Morgan - Author of A Friend for Minerva Louise

Taylor, Theodore - Author of The Weirdo

White, Ruth - Author of Belle Prater's Boy

Zolotow, Charlotte - Author of When the Wind Stops

Zweifel, Frances - Author of The Make-Something Club: Fun with Crafts, Food, and Gifts

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