Cool Female Authors for Cool Chicks

Today we can read a wide variety of books by female authors. There are even some teen ones, like Amelia Atwater Rhodes. But did you know that S. E. Hinton, author of The Outsiders which you have probably had to read in class, was a woman? She published under her initials so that no one would know she was. And she was still a teenager when she did it.

Many of the classics that we read today (such as Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott) were published in a time when it was harder to be a female author. Today, some of the biggest and best selling authors are women: Mary Higgins Clark, Janet Evanovich, Patricia Cornwell and Rachel Vincent (one of many who write both adult and teen series).

I tell you all of this just so I can show you this: An awesome video that spoofs the fight that the Bronte Sisters may have had trying to get their books published. (Side note: Jane Eyre is one of my favorites, not so much the other two.)



P.S. - The S. E. stands for Susan Eloise. She went on to write other popular titles like That Was Then, This is Now and Tex.

Cool Female Authors to Try:
Laurie Halse Andersen
Holly Black (Fairies!)
Melody Carlson (Inspirational Fiction)
Sarah Dessen (One of my all time favorites)
Lois Duncan (Horror!)
Louise Rennison (Hysterical)
Nancy Werlin (Mysteries)
Ellen Wittlinger
Ellen Schreiber (Vampires!!)