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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersThe publication of Terry Brooks's first novel The Sword of Shannara in 1977 brought fantasy novels into the literary mainstream. Until Shannara no fantasy writer except J. R. R. Tolkien had made such an impression on the...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersJustly renowned as one of America's classic modern writers, John Steinbeck is not an author for young adults in terms of his own intentions. He intended his fiction for a general audience, and, though he welcomed younger...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersThe novels of Robert Cormier have added a new dimension to young adult literature. Dealing with evil, abuse of power, and corruption, they present a dark view of humanity, but one tempered by an underlying morality. All...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersPerhaps more forcefully than any other writer of her generation, Anne Tyler portrays disintegration of the traditional family structure and the resulting effect on the individual. In her first novel, If Morning Ever...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersAlthough Margaret Mitchell did not consider herself a writer for young adults, her single masterpiece, Gone with the Wind, and its blockbuster film version have been perennial favorites of American teenagers, to the...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersA father who is difficult to get along with, a mother who commits suicide, an only brother who is thought of as a perfect child, impossible to compete with because he is dead, are all issues for Art Spiegelman in his...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersJoyce Carol Thomas knows stories; she heard them from her mother, her aunts, and from the women of Ponca City, Oklahoma, where she lived until she was ten. She knows stories from the African American culture and from her...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersMercedes Lackey is one of the most prolific writers in the current science-fiction and fantasy field. Her popular fantasy novels set in the land of Valdemar and its surrounding countries are filled with magic, mystery,...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersEdgar Rice Burroughs, best known as the creator of Tarzan, was a prolific author of vigorous adventure novels set in primitive lands, on other planets, and in the interior of the earth. His fiction often contains...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersAmy Tan would probably identify herself as a successful adult writer who also happens to enjoy a large young adult audience. Nevertheless, when the American Library Association added to the many awards already received...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersH.G. Wells, often considered the father of modern science fiction, helped popularize this genre and gave it a more solid foundation in science than it had ever enjoyed before. Wells was influenced by earlier writers—from...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersNebula and Hugo award winner Vonda N. McIntyre, an astute storyteller who creates possible future worlds that often draw on her scientific background in genetics, is noted for her realistic characters who have believable...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersOctavia Butler, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, writes about power, its use and abuse and how it affects those who wield it. As a science fiction writer, she creates alternate worlds where people are bred for...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersAnthony Burgess has written prolifically since the 1950s. His output includes a novel trilogy set in Malay; another group of three novels featuring Enderby, an off-beat poet; two critical examinations of James Joyce; and...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersAlthough she has been a fairly prolific stage and television dramatist and has written other novels, Sue Townsend's reputation and popularity have been founded on her creation of a spotty, self-absorbed and pretentious...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersCombining detailed description of everyday western Kentucky life with her characters' uneasy consideration of larger philosophical issues, Bobbie Ann Mason portrays people's search for individual identity in times of...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersSusan Cooper has come to be recognized as a major author of books for children and young adults. Her first work for children, Over Sea, Under Stone, came as a response to a contest designed to honor the memory of E....
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersOf the many adolescent readers captivated by the award-winning and very adult novels of Toni Morrison, the vast majority are high school females. And while Morrison is especially popular among young African Americans,...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersAs long as inheritance is both desirable and frightful, and adolescence is a terrifying time of crisis and loss of control, the work of Marion Zimmer Bradley will have appeal for young adults. This prolific author often...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersNtozake Shange's poems, plays, and stories reveal the unique voice of a strong African-American woman in contemporary society. Her impassioned portrayals of both the joys and the sorrows of women's lives touch on events...