List of young adult writers

This is a list of writers whose audience is predominantly teens or young adults.

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0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back, Saying It Out Loud, Lost and Found
• Hailey Abbott: The Secrets of Boys, Summer Boys series, The Bridesmaid, Getting Lost With Boys, The Perfect Boy, Waking Up To Boys, Forbidden Boy, The Other Boy
• Richard Adams: Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs
• Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Eight Cousins
• Lloyd Alexander: The Prydain Chronicles, Westmark, The Kestrel, The Beggar Queen
• Isabel Allende: The Adventures of Eagle and Jaguar series: City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, and Forest of the Pygmies
• David Almond: Kit's Wilderness, Heaven Eyes, Clay
• Elaine M. Alphin: Counterfeit Son
• Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Yo!, Before We Were Free
• Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak, Fever 1793, Catalyst, Prom, Twisted
• M. T. Anderson: Feed
• V.C. Andrews: Flowers in the Attic, among others
• Kim Antieau: Mercy, Unbound
• Maya Angelou (primarily a poet): I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Heart of a Woman
• Allen Appel: Twice Upon a Time
• Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why
• Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: In the Forests of the Night, Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror, Midnight Predator, Persistence of Memory, the Kiesha'ra series
• Avi: Nothing But the Truth, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Crispin: The Cross of Lead

B

• Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting

• David-Matthew Barnes: Mesmerized
• T. A. Barron: The Ancient One
• Lynda Barry, cartoonist, graphic novelist
• Lois Thompson Bartholomew: The White Dove
• Cat Bauer: Harley's Ninth, Harley, Like a Person
• Joan Bauer: Rules of the Road, Squashed, Stand Tall, Hope Was Here
• Michael Gerard Bauer: The Running Man, Don't Call Me Ishmael
• Margaret Bechard: Hanging onto Max, Star Hatchling, Spacer and Rat, If it Doesn't Kill You
• David Belbin: Love Lessons, Festival, Denial, The Last Virgin, Dead Guilty
• Clare Bell: Ratha's Creature, Clan Ground, Ratha and Thistle-chaser, Ratha's Challenge, Ratha's Courage, Tomorrow's Sphinx
• Steve Berman: Vintage, a Ghost Story
• Martin Bertram: Vanity of Vanities
• Holly Black: The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant, Ironside
• Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses series
• Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Baby Be-Bop, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
• Judy Blume: Forever, Tiger Eyes, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
• James Bow: The Unwritten Girl
• Tim Bowler: River Boy, Apocalypse, Starseeker
• Robin Brande: Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature, Fat Cat
• Ann Brashares: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• Libba Bray: A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing
• Heather Brewer: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series
• Kate Brian: The Virginity Club, Private series
• Rae Bridgman: The Serpent's Spell, Amber Ambrosia, Fish & Sphinx
• Lauren Brooke: Heartland series, Chestnut Hill series
• Kevin Brooks: Candy, Martyn Pig, The Road of the Dead
• Alyssa Brugman: Walking Naked
• Annie Bryant: Beacon Street Girls series
• Eve Bunting: A Sudden Silence
• Melvin Burgess: Junk, Doing It
• Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy
• Niki Burnham: Royally Jacked, Sticky Fingers

C

• Meg Cabot: The Mediator, The Princess Diaries, All-American Girl, Jinx
• Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
• Rachel Caine: Glass Houses, The Dead Girls Dance, Midnight Alley, Feast of Fools, Lord of Misrule, Carpe Corpus, Fade Out
• Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn Chronicles, Legendsong Saga
• Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
• Ally Carter: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
• Cathy Cassidy: Indigo Blue, Scarlett, Gingersnaps
• Brian Caswell: A Cage of Butterflies, Only the Heart, Double Exposure
• P.C. Cast: House of Night series
• Michael Chabon (primarily an author of adult fiction): Summerland
• Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Alice Childress: A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
• Mark Childress: One Mississippi, Crazy In Alabama
• Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
• Cassandra Clare: City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass
• Terri Clark: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Sleepless
• Brock Cole: The Goats
• Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl, The Wish List
• Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier: My Brother Sam Is Dead
• Ellen Conford: We Interrupt this Semester for an Important Bulletin
• Pam Conrad: My Daniel
• Caroline B. Cooney: The Face on the Milk Carton, Both Sides of Time, Twenty Pageants Later, Driver's Ed
• Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising series
• Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War, After the First Death, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Fade, I Am the Cheese, Tenderness, We All Fall Down
• John Coy: Crackback, Box Out
• Sharon Creech: Walk Two Moons, Bloomability, The Wanderer, Chasing Redbird, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Ruby Holler
• Linda Crew: Children of the River
• Chris Crutcher: Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whale Talk, The Sledding Hill
• Jane Louise Curry: The Watchers, A Stolen Life, The Black Canary
• Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, Bud Not Buddy
• Karen Cushman: Catherine, Called Birdy

D

• Anita Daher: Spider's Song
• Roald Dahl: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, The Great Automatic Grammatizator
• Linden Dalecki: Kid B
• Maureen Daly: Seventeenth Summer
• Paula Danziger: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The Divorce Express
• Terry Davis: Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, If Rock & Roll Were a Machine
• Pamela Dean: Tam Lin, The Secret Country trilogy, The Dubious Hills
• Sarah Dessen: Dreamland, Keeping the Moon, The Truth About Forever
• Carl Deuker: Heart of a Champion, Runner, Gym Candy
• Graham Diamond The Thief of Kalimar, Lady of the Haven
• Kate Dicamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux
• Peter Dickinson: The Dancing Bear, Tulku, Eva, AK, The Ropemaker
• Berlie Doherty: Dear Nobody, The Snake-Stone, Granny Was a Buffer Girl
• Tom Dolby: The Sixth Form
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the Sherlock Holmes stories, written initially for adults
• Ann Downer: The Spellkey, The Glass Salamander, The Books of the Keepers
• Diane Duane: Young Wizards series
• Lois Duncan: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, Summer of Fear

E

• Chris Edwards: Bull Rider

F

• Nancy Farmer: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, The House of the Scorpion, The Sea of Trolls
• Catherine Fisher: The Book of the Crow, The Oracle Prophecies Trilogy, Darkhenge, Corbenic
• Sharon G. Flake: The Skin I'm In, Money Hungry
• Paul Fleischman: Whirligig, A Fate Totally Worse than Death
• Alex Flinn: Breathing Underwater
• Antonia Forest: Peter's Room, Thuggery Affair, The Attic Term
• Dennis Foon: The Longlight Legacy, Double or Nothing
• Paula Fox: One-Eyed Cat, The Slave Dancer
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
• E.R. Frank: Life Is Funny, America, Wrecked, Friction
• Mariah Fredericks: In the Cards: Love, Crunch Time, The True Meaning of Cleavage, Head Games, The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot, Fatal Distraction
• Benedict & Nancy Freedman: Mrs. Mike
• Russell Freedman: Lincoln: A Photobiography, The Life and Death of Crazy Horse, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life Discovered and other nonfiction
• Barbara C. Freeman: The Other Face, A Haunting Air, Snow in the Maze
• Cornelia Funke: Inkheart, The Thief Lord, Dragon Rider

G

• Jack Gantos: Joey Pigza stories, Hole in My Life (autobiography of his youth)
• Nancy Garden: Annie on My Mind, The Year They Burned the Books
• Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Elidor, The Owl Service, Red Shift
• Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain, Julie
• Gail Giles: Shattering Glass
• Parke Godwin: The Tower of Beowulf
• William Golding: "Lord of the Flies"
• John Green: Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns
• Bette Greene: Summer of My German Soldier
• Suresh & Jyoti Guptara: Conspiracy of Calaspia (Insanity Saga)
• Rosa Guy: The Friends, The Disappearance

H

• PJ Haarsma : The Softwire series
• Nancy Yi Fan : Swordbird
• Margaret Peterson Haddix: Among the Hidden, Found
• Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• Shannon Hale: Princess Academy
• Lisi Harrison: The Clique
• Sonya Hartnett: The Silver Donkey
• James Haskins (primarily an author of non-fiction): Fighting Shirley Chisolm, The Geography of Hope
• Pete Hautman: Godless, Invisible
• Louise Hawes: The Vanishing Point, Waiting for Christopher, Rosey in the Present Tense
• Robert A. Heinlein (primarily an author of science fiction): Red Planet
• Claire Hennessy: Dear Diary
• Nat Hentoff (primarily an author of adult non-fiction): Does This School Have Capital Punishment?
• Karen Hesse: Out of the Dust, Witness (novels in verse)
• Carl Hiaasen: Hoot, Flush
• Charlie Higson: Young Bond
• S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Tex, That Was Then, This Is Now
• Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider
• Alice Hoffman: Green Angel
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman (primarily an author of science fiction): A Stir of Bones, Spirits That Walk in Shadow
• Jennifer Holm: Our Only May Amelia, Boston Jane
• Cathy Hopkins: Mates, Dates series, Cinnamon Girl series
• Erin Hunter: The Warriors series, the New Prophecy series, The Power of Three
• Mollie Hunter: The Stronghold, A Stranger Came Ashore, Cat, Herself
• Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

J

• Brian Jacques: Redwall series
• Maureen Johnson: 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Girl at Sea, Suite Scarlett
• Angela Johnson: Toning the Sweep, Heaven, The First Part Last
• Diana Wynne Jones: Chrestomanci series, Dalemark Quartet, Fire and Hemlock, Power of Three, Dark Lord of Derkholm, Year of the Griffin, The Merlin Conspiracy

K

• Brian Keaney: Jacob's Ladder, The Haunting of Nathaniel Wolfe, The Private Life of Georgia Brown
• Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie
• M.E. Kerr: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Little Little, Night Kites, Deliver Us from Evie, Fell, Gentlehands
• A.S. King: The Dust of 100 Dogs
• Stephen King (primarily an author of adult horror fiction): Carrie, Christine, Cujo
• Gordon Korman: Bruno and Boots series beginning with This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, Island series, Jake, Reinvented, No More Dead Dogs
• David Klass: Danger Zone, You Don't Know Me
• Annette Curtis Klause: The Silver Kiss, Blood and Chocolate
• E.L. Konigsburg: Silent to the Bone

L

• Lori Lansens: The Girls: A Novel
• Kathryn Lasky: Blood Secret, Beyond the Burning Time, True North
• Iain Lawrence: Lord of the Nutcracker Men
• Michael Lawrence: Aldous Lexicon or Withern Rise trilogy
• Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness
• Madeleine L'Engle: The Time Quartet, Polly O'Keefe series, Austin family series
• Tanith Lee: The Castle of Dark, The Claidi Journals, Piratica
• Billie Letts: Where The Heart Is
• Gail Carson Levine: The Wish, Ella Enchanted
• David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy, The Realm of Possibility
• C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia
• Robert Lipsyte: The Contender, The Brave, The Chief, One Fat Summer
• Wendy Loggia: Ever After: A Cinderella Story (novelization)
• Lois Lowry: The Giver, The Silent Boy, Number the Stars, Gathering Blue
• Louisa Luna: Brave New Girl
• Barry Lyga: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Boy Toy
• Frances Lynn: Crushed
• Daralyse Lyons: The Lost Daughter

M

• Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern series and other fantasy titles
• Patricia McCormick: Cut, My Brother's Keeper
• Lurlene McDaniel: One Last Wish, Hit and Run, Don't Die, My Love, Till Death Do Us Part
• Robin McKinley: Beauty, The Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End, Rose Daughter
• Lisa McMann: Wake, Fade, Gone
• Carolyn Mackler: The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, Vegan Virgin Valentine, Love and Other Four Letter Words
• Adeline Yen Mah: Falling Leaves: The Memoirs of A Unwanted Chinese Daughter, Chinese Cinderella, Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
• Margaret Mahy: Alchemy, The Changeover
• Sarra Manning: Let's Get Lost, Fashionistas series, Diary of a Crush series, Pretty Things, Guitar Girl
• Melina Marchetta: Looking For Alibrandi, Saving Francesca
• Jan Mark: The Eclipse of the Century, Useful Idiots, Riding Tycho, Voyager
• Melissa Marr: Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity
• John Marsden: Tomorrow series
• Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country
• Sue Mayfield: Drowning Anna
• Norma Fox Mazer and Harry Mazer: Heartbeat
• Richelle Mead: Vampire Academy, Frostbite, Shadow Kiss
• O. R. Melling: The Hunter's Moon
• Milton Meltzer (primarily an author of nonfiction): Underground Man
• Stephenie Meyer: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, The Host
• Ben Mikaelsen: Petey, Touching Spirit Bear
• Gloria D. Miklowitz: After the Bomb
• James Moloney: The Book of Lies, Master of the Books
• Perry Moore: Hero
• Sabre Moore: Secrets at Sea
• Jaclyn Moriarty: The Year of Secret Assignments, Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
• Jess Mowry: Way Past Cool, Babylon Boyz
• Robert Muchamore: CHERUB series
• Walter Dean Myers: Fallen Angels, Hoops, Monster, The Mouse Rap, Outside Shot, Scorpions, Slam, Bad Boy (autobiography of his youth), Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
• Lauren Myracle: ttyl, ttfn, l8r, g8r, Rhymes with Witches

N

• Beverley Naidoo: Chain of Fire, No Turning Back, Web of Lies
• Donna Jo Napoli: Daughter of Venice, Bound, Sirena
• Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Ice, Shiloh
• William Nicholson: Wind on Fire trilogy
• Joan Lowery Nixon: The Other Side of Dark, The Name of the Game Was Murder
• Andre Norton (primarily an author of science fiction): The Stars are Ours!, Star Gate, The Beast Master

O

• Joyce Carol Oates (primarily an author of adult fiction): Big Mouth & Ugly Girl, Sexy
• Tyne O'Connell: The Calypso Chronicles - Pulling Princes, Stealing Princes, Duelling Princes, Dumping Princes and True Love, The Sphinx and Other Unsolvable Riddles
• Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Zibby Oneal: The Language of Goldfish, A Formal Feeling, In Summer Light

P

• Christopher Paolini: Inheritance Cycle
• Vivian Marie Aubin du Paris: The Quest of Dai: The Eroe
• Linda Sue Park: A Single Shard, When My Name Was Keoko
• Francine Pascal: Sweet Valley High and related franchises
• Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved, Lyddie
• Gary Paulsen: Hatchet, Canyons, The Island, The River, Brian's Winter, Nightjohn, Sarny, Soldier's Heart, Dogsong
• Richard Peck: Are You in the House Alone?, Father Figure, The Last Safe Place on Earth, A Long Way from Chicago, Princess Ashley, A Year Down Yonder
• Robert Newton Peck: Clunie, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Extra Innings
• Julie Anne Peters: Keeping You a Secret, Define Normal
• Stefan Petrucha: TimeTripper
• Stella Pevsner: And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine, Cute is a Four-Letter Word
• Rodman Philbrick: Freak the Mighty, The Fire Pony
• Joan Phipson: Dinko, A Tide Flowing, The Watcher in the Garden, Bianca
• Christopher Pike: The Season of Passage, Chain Letter and other thrillers
• Tamora Pierce: The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, Protector of the Small, Trickster's Choice, Trickster's Queen, Provost's Dog, Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens
• Daniel Pinkwater: The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
• Susan Price: The Sterkarm Handshake, A Sterkarm Kiss, Odin's Voice, Odin's Queen
• Connie Porter: Imani All Mine
• Francine Prose (primarily an author of adult fiction): After
• Anne Provoost: Falling, My Aunt is a Pilot Whale, In the Shadow of the Ark
• Philip Pullman: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Broken Bridge, The White Mercedes, The Tin Princess, His Dark Materials trilogy

R

• Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game, Figgs & Phantoms
• Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows
• Carolyn Reeder: Shades of Gray
• Celia Rees: Witch Child, Sorceress, The Wish House, Pirates!
• Sarah Rees Brennan: The Demon's Lexicon, the first of a trilogy
• Philip Reeve: Mortal Engines Quartet, Larklight, Starcross, Here Lies Arthur
• Louise Rennison: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, ...And That's When It Fell Off in My Hand
• Morton Rhue: The Wave, Asphalt Tribe
• Adrienne Richard: Pistol, The Accomplice, Wings, Into The Road
• Ann Rinaldi: A Break with Charity, The Last Silk Dress, Numbering All the Bones, Wolf by the Ears
• Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
• Thomas Rockwell: How To Eat Fried Worms, How to Fight a Girl
• Ginny Rorby: Dolphin Sky, Hurt Go Happy
• Liz Rosenberg: Heart and Soul, 17: A Novel in Prose Poems
• Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now, Just in Case, What I Was
• J. K. Rowling: The Harry Potter series, Tales of Beedle the Bard
• Lois Ruby: Shanghai Shadows
• Cynthia Rylant: Missing May

S

• Louis Sachar: Holes, Small Steps
• Francoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse
• J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
• Graham Salisbury: Shark Bait, Island Boyz, Lord of the Deep, Under the Blood Red Sun, Jungle Dogs, Eyes of the Emperor
• Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say, Getting It, The God Box
• Elizabeth Scott: Bloom, Perfect You, Stealing Heaven, Living Dead Girl, Something Maybe, Love You Hate You Miss You
• Kieran Scott: I Was A Non-Blonde Cheerleader, Geek Magnet
• Lisa See: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
• Marcus Sedgwick: The Book of Dead Days, The Dark Flight Down, Blood Red, Snow White
• Darren Shan: The Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak) series, The Demonata series
• Dyan Sheldon: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
• Mark Shulman: Scrawl, Secret Hiding Places
• Neal Shusterman: The Dark Side of Nowhere, Downsiders, The Schwa Was Here, Full Tilt
• Marilyn Singer: The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth, Horsemaster
• William Sleator (primarily high concept sci-fi): House of Stairs, Singularity, The Boy Who Reversed Himself, Interstellar Pig
• Lemony Snicket: The Series of Unfortunate Events series
• Sonya Sones: What My Mother Doesn't Know, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
• Gary Soto: The Afterlife, Baseball in April and other Stories, Living Up the Street
• Ivan Southall - Josh, Ash Road, Hills End, To the Wild Sky, Bread and Honey, Fly West, the Simon Black series.
• Beatrice Sparks (publishing as 'Anonymous'): Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal
• Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Eleanor Spence: The October Child, A Candle for St. Antony
• Jerry Spinelli: There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, Crash, Stargirl
• Nancy Springer: I am Mordred, I am Morgan le Fay, Blood Trail, Dussie
• R. L. Stine: The Fear Street series
• Shelly Stoehr: Tomorrow Wendy, Crosses
• Jonathan Stroud: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Leap
• Rosemary Sutcliff: The Eagle of the Ninth, Warrior Scarlet, The Mark of the Horse Lord

T

• Janet Tashjian: The Gospel According to Larry, Vote for Larry
• Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land
• Jean Thesman: Appointment with a Stranger, Cattail Moon, Calling the Swan, A Sea So Far
• Joyce Carol Thomas: Marked by Fire
• Rob Thomas: Rats Saw God
• Kate Thompson: Annan Water, The Beguilers, The New Policeman
• J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings

V

• Vivian Vande Velde: Heir Apparent, User Unfriendly, Never Trust a Dead Man, A Coming Evil
• Cynthia Voigt: Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Come a Stranger, A Solitary Blue, Sons from Afar, Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Bad Girls
• Cecily von Ziegesar: The Gossip Girl series, The It Girl series

W

• Judy Waite: Shopaholic, Forbidden
• Melissa Walker: Violet on the Runway, Violet by Design, Violet in Private, Lovestruck Summer
• James Watson: Talking in Whispers, Ticket to Prague, Justice of the Dagger, Fair Game: The Steps of Odessa; plays for schools, Banned!, Tom Paine, This Was Your Life, Gotcha!, Wars-R-Us.Co
• Catherine Webb: Mirror Dreams, Mirror Wakes, Timekeepers, Waywalkers
• Rosemary Wells: Through the Hidden Door
• Nancy Werlin: Are You Alone on Purpose, The Killer's Cousin, Locked Inside, Black Mirror, Double Helix, The Rules of Survival
• Scott Westerfeld: Midnighters trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, Uglies series
• Laura Whitcomb: A Certain Slant of Light, The Fetch
• Elie Wiesel: Night
• Terry Lee Wilde: The Vampire...In My Dreams, Deidre's Secret
• Lili Wilkinson: Scatterheart
• Ellen Wittlinger: Heart on My Sleeve, Hard Love, What's in A Name
• Virginia Euwer Wolff: True Believer, Making Lemonade
• Chris Wooding: Broken Sky, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, Storm Thief, Poison
• Jacqueline Woodson: Miracle's Boys
• Patricia C. Wrede: Enchanted Forest Chronicles
• Richard Wright (primarily an author of works for adults): Black Boy (autobiography of his youth)
• Diana Wynne Jones: See Jones

Y

• Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
• Laurence Yep: Liar Liar, The Lost Garden
• Jane Yolen: The Pit Dragon Trilogy, Briar Rose, The Devil's Arithmetic
• David Yoo: Girls for Breakfast, Stop Me if You've Heard This One Before

Z

• Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
• Paul Zindel: The Pigman, The Pigman's Legacy, I Never Loved Your Mind, My Darling, My Hamburger, The Pigman and Me (autobiography of his youth)
• Markus Zusak: The Book Thief