Authors and illustrators

The websites listed here include authors' personal websites and websites maintained by fans, scholars, and readers. Let us know what other authors you would like us to feature on this page.

Author Study Toolkit
​This website provides some excellent resources to help students and teachers in doing author studies.

​100 authors and illustrators everyone should know

Authors and Illustrators in the Scholastic Book club

Authors and Illustrators on the Web
An A-z list of children's authors and links to their websites.

Great websites for kids: authors and illustrators
A collection of websites for authors and illustrators

Harper and Collins List of Authors and Illustrators
This is an extremely comprehensive list of 100s of websites.

English Literature Links  
​A comprehensive list of resources around literature including authors, periods in English Literature, poverty sites and much more 

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Follow your favourite authors on Twitter

Many authors use social media extensively and a great way to find out about their books and more about them is to follow them on Twitter.  Here are few to get you started.

Teri Terry a great writer or Dystopian novels for young adults        @TeriTerryWrites
Paul Coelho who wrote The Alchemist among other books               @paulocoelho
Sean Avery a young teacher, author and sculptor who has a passion for language and literacy  @sean_e_avery
Tristan Bancks another young Australian author    @tristanbancks
Sarah J. Maas - fantasy writer and new Your Times best seller of fantasy fiction        @SJMaas
John Green author of The Fault in our Stars and other award winning books.         @johngreen

These are just a few to get you started. Why not do your own search and see who you can find