who was your favorite author growing up?

[Spinneret]

Jacqueline Wilson

 

[amcnj]

When I was real young it was Dr Seuss. I more remember book series that I really enjoyed, like Lord of the Rings, Foundation and Dune. Though I did have an Agatha Christie phase too.

 

[Meriweather]

Carolyn Keene
Then Agatha Christie

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Stephen King and still is

 

[Pea-n-Me]

James Herriot

 

[NYCgrrl]

Hans Christian Andersen

 

[Magical2017]

So many. Judy Blume, E.B. White, Beverly Cleary, Roald Dahl, C.S. Lewis. I of course did not think about the authors' personal lives when I was a child but read something about the history of some children's books authors as an adult. I was an adult when the Potter books came out, and still adore them, but I know Rowling is controversial for a number of reasons.

 

[bababear_50]

Author: E. B. White
*Charlotte's Web*
*Stuart Little*
*The Trumpet Of The Swan*

 

[KVH]

This is impossible. I can't decide:
H.G. Wells
Jules Verne
Robert E Howard
Edgar Rice Burroughs

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Laura Ingalls Wilder
Judy Blume
Carolyn Keene

 

[NannyBeBe]

James Herriot

 

[tvguy]

The books were the Hardy Boys series. They were apparently written by a number of different authors all using the name Franklin W. Dixon. So Franklin W. Dixon I guess, who doesn't exist as an individual.

 

[easyas123]

Piers Anthony

 

[MGMmjl]

The books were the Hardy Boys series. They were apparently written by a number of different authors all using the name Franklin W. Dixon. So Franklin W. Dixon I guess, who doesn't exist as an individual.

I was going to say Franklin W. Dixon as well. I read a lot of the Hardy Boys books growing up. My son is getting into them now as well.

 

[kanerf]

Tolkien.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

Elementary years, Walter Farley. Middle school/high school, Dick Francis. I liked horses.

 

[GoingSince1990]

Growing up in the UK, like almost every other child I was addicted to Enid Blyton, a hugely popular and prolific British author of children's fiction. After outgrowing her I graduated to the Alfred Hitchcock Three Investigators series (with the original stories written by Robert Arthur but later on by others) followed by the Hardy Boys (as mentioned above, several ghostwriters under the name FW Dixon). After that it was the Target novelizations of Doctor Who stories; I was an avid Doctor Who fan growing up and with almost no repeats in the UK, and no VCRs or DVDs, those books were the only way to relive the stories for a great many years.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

I love your answer of James Herriot dear Pea. My beloved late grandma introduced me to his books when I was a young teen. The stories have touched me ever since. As a young child the purple hardcover Bobbsey Twin books brought me comfort in times of uncertainty and turmoil in my life. I also enjoyed The Baby-sitters Club and Beverly Cleary.

 

[Keladry84]

Tamora Pierce!

 

[Lumpy1106]

Vonnegut