Sunny days are here, and what better way to enjoy the outdoors than with a good book! Here are some local authors and illustrators you may or may not already know about from South Jersey. Happy reading!
- Amy Rebecca Tan – “Summer at Meadow Wood” and “A Kind of Paradise”; https://www.amyrebeccatan.com/
- Barbara Park (1947-2013, born in Mount Holly, NJ) – Junie B. Jones series
- Carli Lloyd When Nobody Was Watching (2016)
- Colleen Kosinski (Cherry Hill, NJ) – A Promise Stitched in Time; Lilla’s Sunflowers; https://colleenrowankosinski.com/
- Dave Tomar – The Shadow Scholar (2013)
- Diane Chamberlain (went to Glassboro State) – “The Dream Daughter”
- James Fenimore Cooper (Burlington) – “The Last of the Mohicans”
- Jen Bryant (grew up in Flemington, NJ) – The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus; A Splash of Red: the Art and Life of Horace Pippin; A River of Words: the Story of William Carlos Williams; and others.
- John O’Brien (Delran, NJ, Illustrator) – Washington D.C. from A – Z, and others; http://johnobrienillustrator.com/
- Leigh Paynter – The Pine Barrens’ Devil (2020)
- Lisa Zeidner – Love Bomb (2012)
- Liz Moore – Long Bright River, The Unseen World, Heft, The Words of Every Song; http://www.lizmoore.net/
- Marianne Aleardi, Maury Z. Levy and Sally Friedman – Worth Repeating (2016)
- Matt Goldberg – A Snowball’s Chance: Philly Fires Back Against the National Media (2012)
- Matthew Quick (graduated from Collingswood HS) – Silver Linings Playbook
- Michael Dooling (Author/Illustrator) (Audubon, NJ) – Young Thomas Edison; The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin; and others. Rhonda Fink-Whitman – 94 Maidens (2012)
- Scott Benner – Life is Short, Laundry is Eternal (2013)
- Sheldon Winkler – The Music of World War II: War Songs and Their Stories (2013)
- Ty Drago (Cherry Hill, NJ) – Undertakers series; Phobos (Adult) http://www.tydrago.com/
- Walt Whitman (Camden) – O Captain! My Captain!”, “Song of Myself”, and “A Noiseless Patient Spider” https://whitmanarchive.org/published/books/
