Start with high-confidence writers' lives for kids books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Bard of Avon: the Story of William Shakespeare
Diane Stanley, Peter Vennema
Going Solo
Roald Dahl
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Writing Radar
Jack Gantos
A Girl From Yamhill
Beverly Cleary
Lives of the Writers
Kathleen Krull
The Brontë Sisters
Catherine Reef
Make Way
Angela Burke Kunkel
Who Was Langston Hughes?
Billy Merrell
All the World's Your Stage Shakespeare for Today
Farah Karim-Cooper
Alphamaniacs
Paul Fleischman
Gone to the Woods
Gary Paulsen
Before They Were Authors: Famous Writers As Kids
Elizabeth Haidle
There Was a Party for Langston
Jason Reynolds
Louisa Learns to Write
Kate Hannigan
