Shanghai American School has a long and successful history with visiting authors and illustrators.
Over the past two decades, we have hosted the following authors and illustrators, in random order. The majority have been in person, however during the Covid period, we did continue to have virtual visits. Future authors have dates in brackets.
*Dan Gemeinhart
*Elana K Arnold
*Jeff Kinney
*Nikkolas Smith (2025)
*Neal Shusterman (2024)
*Dusti Bowling (2024)
*Brandon Mull
*Alan Gratz (2024)
*Miranda Paul (2024)
*Ellen Oh (2026)
*Minh Le (2024)
*Hena Khan (2024)
*Candace Fleming
*Kwame Alexander
*Laurie Halse Anderson
*Dee Garrettson
*Margaret Peterson Haddix
*Phil Bildner
*Laura Vaccaro Seeger
*Tad Hills
*Lisa Fipps
*Betsy Uhrig
*Sara Holbrook
*Michael Salinger
*Laurel Snyder
*Scott Mc Cloud
*Mitali Perkins
*Taylor Mali
*Lo Cole
*George O Connor
*Anis Mojani
*Keith Baker
*Margi Preus
*Eric Rohmann
*Michael Thompson
*James Gurney
*Anne Sibley O’Brien
*David T. Greenberg
*David M. Schwartz
*Ji-Li Jiang
*Kazu Kibuishi
*Kenn Nesbitt
*Sarah Brennan
*Todd Parr
*Sheree Fitch
*Janet Stevens
*Susan Crummel
*Margriet Ruurs
*Kevin Lewis
*Rumana Hussein
*Jan Latta
*Trevor Lai
*Bryn Barnard
*Chris Crutcher
*Ying Chang Compenstine
*David Novak
*Jan Latta
*Kathryn Lasky
*Christopher Knight
*Jeff Stone
*Yang Hongying
*Mitali Perkins
*Ryan Haack
*Noah Flesher
*Jerry Pallotta
*Noah Flesher
*Usifu Jollah (storyteller)
*Adam Mellema (storyteller)
*Zhen-Lei Chang
*Angela Lim
*Laura Numeroff
*Pamela Duncan Edwards
*John Marsden
*Ralph Fletcher
*Bruce Colville