Susan Campbell Bartoletti is the author of picture books, novels, and nonfiction for children and young adults. She has received many awards and honors, including the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Nonfiction, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction, and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. In 2006, Bartoletti’s book, Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow, received a Sibert Honor and a Newbery Honor. Two years later she published The Boy Who Dared, a thought-provoking novel based on one episode from Hitler Youth. In her most recent book, They Called Themselves the KKK, Bartoletti uses oral histories, newspaper articles, diary entries, and congressional documents to describe how the Ku Klux Klan came to be and how religion, education, and voting were heavily affected by this group. A former eighth-grade English teacher, Bartoletti now conducts writing classes and workshops for a number of graduate programs. She lives in Moscow, Pennsylvania.

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