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Author Study Resources

Where can you find information about authors and more resources on how to do an author study? Browse these books and online sources.

What you’ll find in the Author Study Toolkit

There are many, many sources of information to help in your author study. Take a look at this list of books about authors and illustrators, author studies, and children’s literature. The Internet is a rich resource as well: browse these online resources for background on authors and illustrators and these links to more online information about author studies.

Books about authors/illustrators, author studies, and children’s literature


Online resources for author/illustrator background


Online resources for how to do author studies