The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses. He also has works published under his real name.

620 BC - 564 BC Tradition considers Greek fabulist Aesop as the author of Aesop's Fables , including "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Fox and the Grapes." This credited ancient man told numerous now collectively known stories. None of his writings, if they ever existed, survive; despite his uncertain existence, people gathered and credited numerous tales across the centuries in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Generally human characteristics of animals and inanimate objects that speak and solve problems characterize many of the tales. One can find scattered details of his life in ancient sources, including Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. An ancient literary work, called The Aesop Romance tells an episodic, probably highly fictional version of his life, including the traditional description of him as a strikingly ugly slave (δοῦλος), whose cleverness acquires him freedom as an adviser to kings and city-states. Older spellings of his name included Esop(e) and Isope. A later tradition, dating from the Middle Ages, depicts Aesop as a black Ethiopian. Depictions of Aesop in popular culture over the last two and a half millennia included several works of art and his appearance as a character in numerous books, films, plays, and television programs. Abandoning the perennial image of Aesop as an ugly slave, the movie Night in Paradise (1946) cast Turhan Bey in the role, depicting Aesop as an advisor to Croesus, king; Aesop falls in love with a Persian princess, the intended bride of the king, whom Merle Oberon plays. Lamont Johnson also plays Aesop the Helene Hanff teleplay Aesop and Rhodope (1953), broadcast on hallmark hall of fame. Brazilian dramatist Guilherme Figueiredo published A raposa e as uvas ("The Fox and the Grapes"), a play in three acts about the life of Aesop, in 1953; in many countries, people performed this play, including a videotaped production in China in 2000 under the title Hu li yu pu tao or 狐狸与葡萄 . Beginning in 1959, animated shorts under the title Aesop and Son recurred as a segment in the television series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, its successor. People abandoned the image of Aesop as ugly slave; Charles Ruggles voiced Aesop, a Greek citizen, who recounted for the edification of his son, Aesop Jr., who then delivered the moral in the form of an atrocious pun. In 1998, Robert Keeshan voiced him, who amounted to little more than a cameo in the episode "Hercules and the Kids" in the animated television series Hercules. In 1971, Bill Cosby played him in the television production Aesop's Fables. British playwright Peter Terson first produced the musical Aesop's Fables in 1983. In 2010, Mhlekahi Mosiea as Aesop staged the play at the Fugard theatre in Cape Town, South Africa.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," which proved to be very popular and brought him nationwide attention. His travelogues were also well-received. Twain had found his calling. He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. However, he lacked financial acumen. Though he made a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he squandered it on various ventures, in particular the Paige Compositor, and was forced to declare bankruptcy. With the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers, however, he eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain worked hard to ensure that all of his creditors were paid in full, even though his bankruptcy had relieved him of the legal responsibility. Born during a visit by Halley's Comet, he died on its return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature". Excerpted from Wikipedia. AKA: Μαρκ Τουαίν (Greek)

1984’te İzmir’de doğdu. Bornova Anadolu Lisesini bitirdi, ardından Ege Üniversitesinde gazetecilik okudu. Uzun yıllar gazete ve dergilerde çalışıp farklı görevler üstlendi; daha sonra yayıncılık sektörüne geçip editörlük ve çevirmenlik yapmaya başladı. Hâlen çocuklar ve yetişkinler için kitaplar yazmaya çabalıyor ve sinemayı, bilimkurguyu, Beşiktaş’ı, sarman kedileri, patates kızartmasını, geri dönüp saatlerce yürümeyi, tek başına lunaparka gitmeyi ve özgürce akan mavi ırmakları seviyor. http://dandikadam.wordpress.com/

Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules\_V...

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889), contain fictional sketches of Scottish life and are commonly seen as representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theatre. In London he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them.

also wrote under the name Edith Van Dyne, Floyd Akers, Schuyler Staunton, John Estes Cooke, Suzanne Metcalf, Laura Bancroft, Louis F. Baum, Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald Lyman Frank Baum was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a plethora of other works (55 novels in total, 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

984’te Ege Üniversitesi Diş Hekimliği Fakültesinden mezun oldu. Şiir, öykü, masal, tiyatro oyunu, roman türlerinde pek çok eser verdi. Gazete Ege‘de ve Haber Ekspres gazetesinde çocuk sayfası hazırladı. Cumhuriyet gazetesi Kitap ekinde on beş yıl süreyle çocuk ve gençlik edebiyatı inceleme, eleştiri yazıları yazdı. Varlık, Virgül, Edebiyat Eleştiri gibi yazın dergilerinde öykü ve yazıları yayımlandı. TRT İzmir Radyosu’nda iki yıl süreyle “Mavi Mektuplar” isimli yazın köşesini hazırladı, sundu. 2007’de TRT İzmir Radyosu’nda “Mavi sözcükler” isimli köşeyi hazırlayıp sundu. İki yazar arkadaşıyla (A. Akal, N. Yılmaz) birlikte kaleme aldığı “Mor Gece Mavi Gün” isimli oyunu Ankara Devlet Tiyatrosu’nda sahnelendi. TRT Radyolarında oynanmış radyo tiyatroları var. “Küçük Hanımlar Küçük Beyler” adlı oyunu Uluslararası Tiyatro Festivali’nde Türkiye’yi temsil etti. Oyun, ayrıca Hindistan’da seyirciye sunuldu. 2012 sezonunda “Kırmızı Şemsiye” adlı tiyatro oyunu (A.Akal, N.Yılmaz ile birlikte) İstanbul Devlet Tiyatrosu tarafından sahnelendi. 2012’de (Literature İn Flux) Doğu Avrupa ve Türkiye’yi içine alan kültürlerarası edebiyat buluşmasında Split ve Tiran’da ülkesini temsil etti. 2013’de Yılın Çocuk Kitapları Yazarı ödülüne değer bulundu (Kosova). 2015’de Macaristan, Rodos ve Belçika çocuk edebiyatı buluşmalarında ülkesini temsil etti. 2015’de Reçelli Şiirler adlı kitabı (Aytül Akal ile birlikte) ÇGYD Yılın Kitabı tasarım ödülünü aldı. Çocuk edebiyatının Nobeli sayılan H.C.Andersen Ödülü için 2018 yılı Türkiye adayı olarak gösterildi. Edebiyatçılar Derneği, Yazarlar Sendikası, Dil Derneği, P.E.N Yazarlar Derneği, Oyun Yazarları ve Çevirmenleri Derneği, Çocuk ve Gençlik Yayınları Derneği’nin üyesidir. Çocuk yazını alanında atölye eğitmenliği de yapıyor. Çocuk yazını alanında gerçekleşen yurtiçi/yurtdışı sempozyumlarda bildiriler sundu; üniversitelerde konferanslar verdi. Öykü, masal ve şiirleri ilköğretim ders kitaplarında yer alıyor, yabancı dillere çevriliyor.

R. M. Ballantyne was a Scottish writer of juvenile fiction. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and where he served for six years with the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned to Scotland in 1847, and published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or Life in the Wilds of North America. For some time he was employed by Messrs Constable, the publishers, but in 1856 he gave up business for literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated.