November Author Birthdays

Nicholasa Mohr (Nilda, A Matter of Pride and Other Stories)  11/1

Gyo Fujikawa (Millie’s Secret, Welcome is a Wonderful World)  11/3

Sterling North (Rascal, Midnight and Jeremiah)  11/4

Armstrong Sperry (Call It Courage)  11/7

Benjamin Bova (THX 1138 [with George Lucas], The Winds of Altair)  11/8

Marianna Mayer (Vasilisa the Brave, Baba Yaga)  11/8

Bram Stoker (Dracula)  11/8

Kate Seredy (The White Stag)  11/10

Marjorie Benchley (Nate the Great series, Rollo and Juliet)  11/12

Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island) 11/13

Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) 11/14

William Steig (Shrek, CDB, Doctor De Soto)  11/14

Nancy Tafuri (Have You Seen My Duckling?)  11/14

David McCord (An Acre for Education, One At a Time) 11/15

Daniel Pinkwater (The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, The Big Orange Splot)  11/15

Miroslav Sasek (This is Paris, Mike and the Modelmakers) 11/18

Carlo Lorenzini – wrote as Carlo Collodi (Pinocchio)  11/24

Sylvia Engdahl (Stewards of the Flame, Journey Between Worlds)  11/24

Yoshiko Uchida (Journey to Topaz: The Story of a Japanese American Evacuation) 11/24

Crescent Dragonwagon (To Take a Dare, The Cornbread Gospels)  11/25

P.D. Eastman (Are You My Mother? Go, Dog, Go!)  11/25

Marc Brown (Arthur series)  11/25

Doris Gates (A Fair Wind for Troy)  11/26

Charles Shulz (Peanuts)  11/26

Tomi Ungerer (Rigor Mortis, The Joy of Frogs) 11/28

Louisa May Alcott (Little Women, Little Men)  11/29

Madeleine L’Engle (A Wind in the Door, A Wrinkle in Time) 11/29

C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters)  11/29

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)  11/30

Johnathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal)  11/30

Mark Twain (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)  11/30