who was your favorite author growing up?

[OneOftheB's]

Walter Farley, Marguerite Henry and Jean Slaughter Doty. Yes I was horse obsessed.

 

[mjkacmom]

Stephen King, started reading his books around the age of 10, read most of them (I was a big reader).

 

[georgina]

I was also horse obsessed and read a lot of Marguerite Henry's books. (Dick Francis came much later, in adulthood)
Very fond of A.A. Milne and James Herriot also.

Tamora Pierce!

My DD read a lot of her books and similar ones.

 

[Cazbucket]

Enid Blyton then (and always will be) Agatha Christie.
M C Beaton also ~ love Agatha Raisin books/tv.
Sadly none are no longer with us

 

[CGB]

"Carolyn Keene" or the multiple ghostwriters that wrote Nancy Drew and Walter Farley. Loved the Black Stallion series. In high school, I moved to Agatha Christie.

 

[happybaker]

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).

I loved those Alfred Hitchcock Three Investgators books when I was young!!

 

[QueenofPrideRock]

Tamora Pierce!

Seconded. Alanna hugely shaped me as a young redhead fantasy nerd girlie.

 

[E&Cmom]

Beverly Cleary

 

[Keladry84]

Seconded. Alanna hugely shaped me as a young redhead fantasy nerd girlie.

I read her books on repeat for a couple of years! Nice to see another fan!

 

[DodgerGirl]

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

Oh, Jalapeno Pretzel you must be like me because I also like and read horse books too. I bet you read The Saddle Club series growing up too and the Thoroughbred series as well. I have heard of Dick Francis but I never knew his mystery books were about horses too and I have some books written by Walter Farley's son Steven Farley and the Misty books too

 

[Clifton Tesh]

As far as traditional authors go:

Shel Silverstein
Edgar Alan Poe

Quite literally a night and day difference between the two authors but I have read, multiple times, every single one of both of their works.

I was huge into comics too, not your traditional superman Batman comics but your Sunday morning comics.

Bill Watterson and Charles Schultz will always be my number ones. They may not have written novels but their works are masterpieces. Mort Walker and Jim Davis are huge favorites too.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Grandpa Sam loved Peanuts, Clifton. A Charlie Brown Christmas is a favorite of mine. I hope you enjoyed the characters too

Thanks everyone for sharing your reading memories with us

 

[Newsies]

Susan S. Adler and Valerie Tripp -- together wrote most of the "OG" books that explored the storylines for the American Girl dolls

 

[Clifton Tesh]

Grandpa Sam loved Peanuts, Clifton. A Charlie Brown Christmas is a favorite of mine. I hope you enjoyed the characters too

Thanks everyone for sharing your reading memories with us

Those characters, and the lessons they taught us, are some of my fondest memories.

 

[clh2]

I googled the name to make sure I spelled Carolyn Keene correctly…ironically, today, while googling, I learned that the name was a pseudonym for several writers that wrote the books.

Regardless…I loved the Nancy Drew Mystery books, and read many of them.

 

[easyas123]

Geez, ,I forgot about Dick Francis. I read several of his books...maybe I'll look a few of them up and reread them!

 

[Clifton Tesh]

I googled the name to make sure I spelled Carolyn Keene correctly…ironically, today, while googling, I learned that the name was a pseudonym for several writers that wrote the books.

Regardless…I loved the Nancy Drew Mystery books, and read many of them.

I understand that kind of surprise.

It was only within the last 2 or 3 years that I learned that Ian Van Dahl was not a single DJ, heck, they weren't even a real person. The name "Ian Van Dahl" was ultimately a giant music project created by Christophe Chantzis and Erik Vanspauwen.

 

[summerlyangel]

Judy Blume
Beverly Cleary

I was at the mercy of what was available from teachers and the pitiful school library. I grew up in an extremely poor and rural area so going to the public library was not a place my parents would have considered taking me. I read everything I could get my hands on, but was just not exposed to a variety of authors or literature.

 

[DodgerGirl]

I was a big fan of Beverly Cleary books and had most of the Ramona series and read the Ramona series books in school and they were funny. Then I became a fan of Judy Blume and got the Fudge series and her later books like Deenie and Just As Long As We're Together and Judy knows what teens face in their lives when she started aiming at the teen audience. Did you ever read the books It's Not The End Of The World and Then Again Maybe I Won't?

 

[disney-inspired]

R.L. Stine