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poets who wrote young adult literature
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Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007)
poet, essayist, librarian, poet, essayist, librarian, poet, essayist, librarian
- Smith College
Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011)
poet
- University of Oxford, Friends School Saffron Walden
Jack London (1876-1916)
journalist, war correspondent, essayist, autobiographer, poet, diarist, seaman
- University of California, Berkeley
Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938)
playwright, poet, essayist, autobiographer, professor, diarist
- University of Detroit Mercy, Rice University
Neil Gaiman (born 1960)
beekeeper, journalist, blogger, film producer, actor, film director, poet
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
linguist, poet, translator, literary critic, essayist, military officer, historian, illustrator, teacher, philologist
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)
poet, journalist
Nancy Willard (1936-2017)
poet
- Stanford University, University of Michigan