authors

This filmstrip deals in part with author's childhood and travels. It also focuses on her writing, her thoughts and feelings about it, and some explanations of why she wrote as she did.

Viewers accompany Jean Craighead George on a walk through autumn woods, learn about her childhood, her prolific career, and details of how she came to write her award-winning books.

A short biography of Beverly Cleary, including her complaint as a child that there were no books about ordinary children, which helped to inspire her books about them..

Born in Salinas, California, novelist John Steinbeck was best noted for his portrayal of the proletariat. His writing realistically depicted the economically depressed in the U.S., particularly the itinerant farm laborers of California.

First known for his controversial book of poetry, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman was thought to be vulgar and immoral. His major themes included the sacredness of the self, the beauty of death, the equality of all people, the love of comrades, and the immortality of the soul.

Pen name of Eric Arthur Blair - English novelist, essayist, and critic. Orwell said all of his writings were directed against totalitarianism in all forms.