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academics who wrote young adult literature
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Philip Pullman (born 1946)
playwright, librarian, executive producer, audiobook narrator
- University of Oxford, Ysgol Ardudwy
Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938)
playwright, poet, essayist, autobiographer, professor, diarist
- University of Detroit Mercy, Rice University
China Miéville (born 1972)
politician, academic, literary critic, blogger, anthropologist, political scientist
- London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Cambridge
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
biochemist, autobiographer, journalist
- Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
linguist, poet, translator, literary critic, essayist, military officer, historian, illustrator, teacher, philologist
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
Alfred Clemens Baumgärtner (1928-2008)
literary scholar
Frank Northern Magill (1907-1997)
encyclopedist, editor, library scientist
- Columbia University, University of Southern California
Mary Ellen Snodgrass (born 1944)
opinion journalist
- Appalachian State University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro