The Oregon Library Association is proud to highlight authors who call Oregon their home. The aim of the Oregon Authors Project is to connect authors to readers by provide information and resources about Oregon authors in one central location.
Relaunch of the OLA Oregon Authors Website
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The relaunch of the Oregon Authors Project website took place in February of 2023. It was previously maintained by Portland State University (2017-2021) in Wordpress. The earliest ancestor of the Oregon Authors Project was a list of authors in the 1933-34 edition of the Oregon Blue Book.
We have added exciting new features to our website and have made it user-friendly. Our blog will feature authors in more detail, and our goal is to occasionally interview them too. We plan to revisit classic works and book-based movies. Another goals is to highlight traditionally marginalized voices; we are in the process of developing the structure to support this endeavor. (Read more about the relaunch here...)
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Featured Authors
WALIDAH IMARISHA
Educator, writer, public scholar, and spoken word artist, Walidah Imarisha won a 2017 Oregon Book Award for her nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption.
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JON KRAKAUER
Graham Salisbury is an American children's writer who is best known for Under the Blood Red Sun which as been adapted into a movie. He was also a pop musician in the late 1960s under the name Sandy Salisbury.
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CINDY BALDWIN
Cindy Baldwin's debut middle-grade novel is about a girl coming to terms with her mother's mental illness. She has also written Beginners Welcome, The Stars of Whistling Ridge, and No Matter the Distance.
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Joe Sacco
Cartoon journalist, Joe Sacco, began his journalism career working on the Sunset High School newspaper in Beaverton, Oregon. By 1985, he founded a satirical alternative comics magazine called Portland Permanent Press...
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Rosanne Parry
Rosanne Parry grew up in Oregon loving its rainy days, wild places, and many libraries. She is the author of seven novels for young readers, including the NY Times best sellers A Wolf Called Wander and A Whale of the Wild...
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Emmett Wheatfall
Portlander Emmett Wheatfall reads, writes, publishes, and performs poetry. His collection As Clean as a Bone was a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist as well as a da Vinci Eye award finalist. Our Scarlet Blue Wounds is his latest...
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