HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Connecticut, the youngest member of a family of six brothers and four sisters. Her father was a famous preacher and her brothers and sisters shared an interest in religion. The America that Stowe grew up in was very different from country we know today. There were many divisions between North and the South, the most important being the issue of slavery. Many in the North accepted the slavery in the South as necessary for the national economy, although they knew how unfair and immoral this was.

Anna Gavalda (f. 1970) er uddannet lærer, men debuterede som forfatter i 1999 til stor litterær anerkendelse og har siden udgivet i alt otte bøger, som er oversat til mere end 30 sprog.

Biografie Uwe Timm wurde 1940 in Hamburg geboren. Nach einer Kürschnerlehre übernahm er 1958 das Pelzgeschäft seines Vaters. Fünf Jahre später machte er das Abitur und studierte dann Philosophie und Germanistik in München und Paris. Seit 1971 lebt er als freier Schriftsteller in München und Berlin. Er hat vier Kinder. Weitere Werke u.a.: Heißer Sommer (1974), sein erster Roman. Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel (1989), sein bekanntestes Kinder- und Jugendbuch, auch als Film. Am Beispiel meines Bruders (2003), auch als Easy Reader. Rot (2001), Roman über die jüngste deutsche Geschichte.

Jeg har sammen med Carol Livingstone forfattet A Piece of Cake 1 på Alinea. En engelskbog for første klasse med vægten lagt på at indlæring skal være aktiverende og sjovt. Sange og lege er derfor de bærende elementer. Jeg har min baggrund som engelsklærer i over 35 år på en privatskole med høje faglige ambitioner. Jeg har undervist på alle niveauer, og var også med til at undervise helt nede fra børnehaveklassen, allerede inden lovgivningen om tidlig engelskundervisning trådte i kraft.

Lara Cardella (born November 13, 1969 in Licata, Italy) is an Italian writer. She is best known for her best seller novel Good girls don't wear trousers. Her first book Good girls don't wear trousers (in Italian: Volevo i pantaloni), written when she was nineteen, caused a scandal in the small Sicilian community where she lived because it fiercely criticized what she perceived as the backwardness and chauvinism of contemporary sicilian society.

S. E. HINTON (1950 - ) was born in 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she still lives today. When she was sixteen, she wrote her first novel "The Outsiders", which has since been made into a popular movie. S. E. Hinton is also the author of "That Was Then, This Is Now" (1971), "Rumble Fish" (1975) and "Tex" (1979), which also deal with various problems faced by teenagers. She has won several awards for young adult fiction.