Something about the Author

Covering over 6000 authors and illustrators, this text provides information on both latter-day and modern-day children's authors and illustrators. For each contemporary author there is an extensive list of works, career and personal data, works in progress and reference sources of further information. A Sidelights section in each profile includes the author's own comments. Authors and illustrators of the past are covered in more detail and their entries include detailed chronologies, excerpts from letters, diaries, memoirs, personal and career data, a list of publications, illustrations and additional sources of information.