Veronica Roth is an American novelist and short story writer, born in New York City in 1988, who is best known for the Divergent trilogy, a young adult dystopian series set in a future Chicago. The trilogy has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a series of films. Roth was … Read more
Gary Paulsen (1939 to 2021) was an American writer of children’s and young adult fiction, best known for coming-of-age stories set in the wilderness. He wrote more than 200 books, among them the survival novel “Hatchet” (1987), and won the American Library Association’s Margaret Edwards Award in 1997 for his contribution to writing for teenagers. … Read more
Stephen Chbosky (born 1970) is an American novelist, screenwriter and film director, best known for the coming-of-age novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” (1999) and for writing and directing its 2012 film adaptation. His second novel, the psychological horror story “Imaginary Friend”, followed in 2019. Chbosky was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 25 January … Read more
S. E. Hinton is an American writer, born Susan Eloise Hinton in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 22 July 1948. She is best known for “The Outsiders” (1967), a novel about rival teenage gangs that she wrote while still at high school, and she is credited with introducing the young adult genre. All five of her young … Read more
John Green (born 1977) is an American author and YouTuber whose young adult novels include “Looking for Alaska”, “Paper Towns” and “The Fault in Our Stars”. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide. His most recent novel, “Hollywood, Ending”, published in September 2026, is his first written for adults. Green was … Read more
Dame Malorie Blackman is a British writer for children and young adults, best known for the “Noughts & Crosses” series, which is set in an alternative Britain and deals with racism. She has written more than seventy books, was the UK Children’s Laureate from 2013 to 2015 and won the PEN Pinter Prize in 2022. … Read more
Stephenie Meyer is an American novelist, born in Hartford, Connecticut, on 24 December 1973, best known for the Twilight vampire romance series. The books have sold over 160 million copies and were adapted into five films. She has also written two novels for adults, “The Host” and “The Chemist”. The second of six children, Meyer … Read more
Holly Black is an American author of fantasy for children, teenagers and adults. She is best known for “The Spiderwick Chronicles”, created with the writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and for the Folk of the Air series that began with “The Cruel Prince” in 2018. Her books have been translated into 32 languages. Black was … Read more
Cassandra Clare is the pen name of Judith Lewis (born Judith Rumelt in 1973), an American author of young adult fantasy. She is best known for “The Mortal Instruments” and the wider Shadowhunter Chronicles, which began in 2007 with her first novel, “City of Bones”, a New York Times bestseller. Clare was born in Tehran … Read more
Julia Gray is a British author and singer-songwriter whose young adult novels have earned her a reputation for sharp, unsettling storytelling. Based in Oxfordshire, she studied Classics at University College London before taking a diploma in Children’s Literature and an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, where she was awarded the Sophie Warne Fellowship. Her debut novel, “The Otherlife”, was … Read more
