The Rant in Our Stars

[Faith No More]

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Oh, sure, but what I'm wondering is are there any quality authors that have intended to write good literary works that are geared towards the young adult crowd or is the genre simply full of mediocre authors.

JK Rowling
EB White ("Charlotte's Web")
Laura Ingles Wilder ("Little House" series)
Philip Pullman ("His Dark Materials" Trilogy)
SE Hinton ("The Outsiders")
Jeanne DuPrau ("Book of Ember" Trilogy)
Kevin J Anderson (An entire series of Young Jedi Knights)
Sherman Alexie ("The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian")
Louisa May Alcott ("Little Women")
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anne Frank
Katherine Paterson ("Bridge to Teribithia")
Richard Adams ("Watership Down")
Brian Jacques ("Redwall" and its sequels)
Motherfuckin' Tolkien (The Hobbit was a children's book, and the Lord of the Rings started out that way)
CS Lewis (Narnia)
John Christopher ("When the Tripods Came")
Harper Lee ("To Kill a Mockingbird")
Ellen Raskin ("The Westing Game")
LM Montgomery ("Anne of Green Gables" series, "The Emily" Trilogy etc)
Lois Lowry ("The Giver")
Madeleine L'Engle ("A Wrinkle in Time," etc)
Lemony Snicket ("A Series of Unfortunate Events")
Lewis Carroll ("Alice in Wonderland")
Robin McKinley ("The Hero and the Crown" as well as several amazing fairytale retellings, including two very different but equally brilliant rewrites of Beauty & the Beast)
Roald Dahl (Do you really need me to list those?)
L Frank Baum ("The Wizard of Oz" series)
Frances Hodgson Burnett ("The Little Princess" and "The Secret Garden")
Norton Juster ("The Phantom Tollbooth")

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We can keep going.

Ah, it's all coming back to me now. Some of those arguably aren't YA books, but your list has triggered some memories. Roald Dahl was great(really interesting, too, considering he didn't really care for children), but now I'm remembering that the majority of the YA books that I read that I enjoyed were depressing as all hell. I remember my mom reading Charlotte's Web to me when I was six and bawling my eyes out.