Who wrote mainly for children, Carson McCullers or Countee Cullen?
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Carson McCullers Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the U.S. South. Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the deep South.
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Countee Cullen Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946), born Countee LeRoy Porter, was a prominent African-American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Grace Duffie Boylan Grace Duffie Boylan (February 9, 1861 - March 24, 1935) was an American writer. She wrote many children’s books, often dealing with diverse races and cultures, like "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (not to be confounded with the same title by Harriet Beecher Stowe). Other titles include: "Young Folks", "Our Little Eskimo Kiddies: Kids of Many Colors", "Yama Yama Land", and "Our Little Cuban Kiddies".
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Mirette on the High Wire Mirette on the High Wire is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. Published in 1992, the book tells the story of Mirette, a French girl who learns to walk on the tightrope. McCully won the 1993 Caldecott Medal for her illustrations.
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Emilie Poulsson Anne Emilie Poulsson (September 8, 1853 – March 18, 1939) was an American children's author and campaigner for early childhood education and the kindergarten movement.
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Carol Gorman Carol Gorman (born February 16, 1962) is an American writer of children's fiction. She originally aspired to be an actress, and for a few years taught seventh grade at an Iowan middle school. Inspired by her husband and fellow author, Ed Gorman, she began writing in the mid-1980s. With over 22 books published under several names, Carol Gorman continues to write and teach.
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Jonathan Emmett Jonathan Emmett (born 1965) is a British children’s author and pop-up book designer. He is best known for his picture books including "Bringing Down the Moon", "Someone Bigger" and "The Princess and the Pig". His books have won several awards including the Red House Children’s Book Award for "Pigs Might Fly" and the Sheffield Children’s Book Award for "The Pig’s Knickers".
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Claire Messud Claire Messud (born 1966) is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel "The Emperor's Children" (2006).
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Carolyn Meyer Carolyn Meyer (born June 8, 1935) is an American author of novels for children and young adults.
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Clare Mallory Clare Mallory is the pen name under which Winifred Constance McQuilkan Hall (25 September 1913 – 20 April 1991) wrote ten children's books published between 1947 and 1951.
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Lois Lowry Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer credited with more than thirty children's books. She has won two Newbery Medals, for "Number the Stars" in 1990 and "The Giver" in 1994. For her contribution as a children's writer, she was a finalist in 2000 and U.S. nominee again in 2004, as well as a finalist in 2016 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. Her book "Gooney Bird Greene" won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award.
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Farmer Boy Farmer Boy is a children's historical novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1933. It was the second-published one in the "Little House" series but it is not related to the first, which that of the third directly continues. Thus the latter, "Little House on the Prairie", is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of "the Laura Years".
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Arthur Catherall Arthur Catherall (1906–1980) was an English author, mostly of works for children.
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Ann Purmell Ann Purmell (born November 15, 1953 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American children's book author.
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Emily Cheney Neville Emily Cheney Neville (December 28, 1919 – December 14, 1997) was an American author. She was born in Manchester, Connecticut and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1940. After receiving her A.B. from Bryn Mawr, she worked for the "New York Daily News" and the "New York Daily Mirror" newspapers. She had five children with her husband, Glenn Neville, a newspaperman, and lived in New York City. Her first book, "It's Like This, Cat" (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964. Her other works include: "Berries Goodman" (1965); "The Seventeen-Street Gang" (1966); "Traveler From a Small Kingdom" (1968); and "Fogarty" (1969).
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Helen O'Clery Helen O'Clery (née Gallagher) (1910 – 11 October 2006) was an Irish writer specializing in children's books.
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder Zilpha Keatley Snyder (May 11, 1927 – October 8, 2014) was an American author of books for children and young adults. Three of Snyder's works were named Newbery Honor books: "The Egypt Game", "The Headless Cupid" and "The Witches of Worm". She was most famous for writing adventure stories and fantasies.
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Evelyn Whitaker Evelyn Whitaker (1844–1929) was an English children's writer, whose work was described as charming, pure and wholesome. She displays strong sensitivity to poverty and to illness.
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Elizabeth Cody Kimmel Elizabeth Cody Kimmel (born 23 October 1964) is an American children's book writer. She is the author of more than forty books ranging from picture books through middle grade and young adult. Both her fiction and non-fiction work often incorporates subjects of personal interest or study, such as history, Tibetan Buddhism, the supernatural, and polar exploration. Kimmel has also published under the names Elizabeth Kimmel Willard, E.C. Kimmel, and Elizabeth Cody.
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The Box of Delights The Box of Delights is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield. It is a sequel to "The Midnight Folk", and was first published in 1935.
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What Katy Did Next What Katy Did Next (1886) is a children's book by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, working under the pen name Susan Coolidge. It follows the stories "What Katy Did" (1872), "What Katy Did At School" (1873) and tells the adventures of Katy Carr as she travels to Europe.
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The Child in Time The Child in Time (1987) is a novel by Ian McEwan. It won the Whitbread Novel Award for that year. The story concerns Stephen, an author of children's books, and his wife, two years after the kidnapping of their three-year-old daughter Kate. Author Christopher Hitchens viewed the novel as McEwan's masterpiece.