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- John Meade Falkner (1858–1932) - Moonfleet
- Walter Farley (1915–1989) - The Black Stallion series
- Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) - Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, The Little Bookroom
- Nancy Farmer - The House of the Scorpion, The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, A Girl Named Disaster
- Penelope Farmer - Charlotte Sometimes, The Summer Birds, A Castle of Bone
- G. E. Farrow (1862 – c. 1920) - The Wallypug of Why, The Little Panjandrum's Dodo
- Eugene Field (1850–1895) - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
- Anne Fine - The Tulip Touch, Madame Doubtfire, Flour Babies
- Aileen Fisher (1906–2002) - We Alcotts, I Heard a Bluebird Sing
- Catherine Fisher - The Snow-Walker, The Book of the Crow, The Oracle, Corbenic
- John D. Fitzgerald (1906–1988) - The Great Brain series
- Louise Fitzhugh (1928–1974) - Harriet the Spy, Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
- Marjorie Flack (1897–1958) - The Story of Ping, Angus and the Ducks
- John Flanagan - Ranger's Apprentice series
- Sid Fleischman - The Whipping Boy, By The Great Horn Spoon!
- Ian Fleming (1908–1964) - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Esther Forbes (1891–1967) - Johnny Tremain
- Antonia Forest (1915–2003) - Autumn Term, Falconer's Lure & others in the Marlow Family series
- Helen Fox - Eager series
- Anne Frank (1929–1945) - The Diary of a Young Girl
- Barbara C. Freeman - Two-Thumb Thomas, Timi, the Tale of a Griffin
- Frieda Friedman - Dot for Short, Pat and Her Policeman, Carol from the Country
- Cornelia Funke - The Thief Lord, Inkworld trilogy
- Fynn - Mister God, This Is Anna
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