John Nicholson is an Australia children's author born in Singapore.

The story is told by Berie, who is pointedly the same age as the author, born in 1957.

Mary Hoffman is a best-selling British author and critic, born in 1945.

C. E. Morgan is an American author born in 1976.

Jean Little is a Canadian author born on January 2, 1932.

The author, born in Rome on March 17, 1917, wrote morethan 20 books.

An American author, born at New York in 1838.

Most recently, there has been a so-called Cuban "boom" among authors born during the 1950s and '60s.

It was criticized also for including few authors born in Central America.

The selection featured short prose by young Serbian authors born after 1975.