Author Listings (Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology)
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| A native of Havana, who resides in Miami since 1991, Daína Chaviano's style bears no resemblance to other works by Cuban, Caribbean, Latin American, or Hispanic authors. She melds realistic and historical elements with aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and Gothic literature. Although Cuba – particularly Havana – is ....[more] |
| Born and raised in Nashville, TN, Hamilton has spent his life learning about the mysterious majesty of the plains of Middle Tennessee. Winning numerous awards throughout the South for his unique style of southern prose, Hamilton has focused many of his works chronicling the story of Justin Hoskins and his band of ragt....[more] |
| Award-winning author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for nearly fifteen years. Her works include the urban fantasies, Yesterday's Dreams, its sequel, Tomorrow's Memories, and the upcoming novella, The Halfling’s Court: A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale, the anthologies, Bad-Ass Faeries, Bad....[more] |
| Alma Flor Ada, Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, has devoted her life to advocacy for peace by promoting a pedagogy oriented to personal realization and social justice. A former Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University and Fulbright Research Scholar she is an internationally r....[more] |
| I am a paranormal fiction writer who grew up in the tiny coal mining community of Woodbine just south of Corbin in southeastern Kentucky. (for some reason Woodbine is badly misplaced / poorly marked on this map; too, in Harlan County, Mary Alice and a couple of other spots are mislabeled. Viewers have my strongest of a....[more] |
| I am a professional book editor, former publishing executive, and author of over 100 credited children's books, 3 YA novels, 4 novelizations, 2 grown-up books, one a New York Times bestseller and the other, WRITING CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR DUMMIES (Wiley, 2005) a consistent bestseller at Amazon in its category. I have also....[more] |
| Rev Dr Robin Currie is a professional librarian and clergyperson in the Chicago suburbs. |
| Writer, professor, and photographer Julius Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 27, 1939. He received a B.A. in English from Fisk University in 1960. Lester's photographs from the civil rights movement era have been exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution and are part of Howard University's permanent coll....[more] |
| Michael has written more than 200 children's books including middle grade novels, tie-in novelizations, and picture books based on movies, video games, and television shows such as Smallville, Avatar, Men in Black, X-Men and Spider-Man.
Michael's packaging company, Town Brook Press, created and produced Spider-Man M....[more] |
| For many, an illustrated version of Aesop’s Fables is ubiquitous with childhood. Born a slave, Aesop and his fables have become a staple of popular culture for generations. While his birthplace is a matter of much scholarly debate with Egypt, Ethiopia and Athens being presented as possibilities, some facts about his li....[more] |
| Louisa May Alcott was born November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the second of four daughters born to Amos Bronson Alcott, a well-known transcendentalist philosopher and educator, and Abigail May Alcott. In 1834, the Alcott family moved to Massachusetts, where they became acquainted with writers and ....[more] |
| English poet Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6, 1809 in Lincolnshire, England. The fourth of twelve children, Tennyson spent a few years unhappy with traditional schooling before being tutored at home. In 1827, Tennyson moved to Cambridge where he enrolled in Trinity College. That same year, his work was publishe....[more] |
| Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, is most well-known for his fairy tales, which include ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Thumbelina’, and ‘The Ugly Duckling’. Andersen was born to poor parents, a washerwoman and a shoemaker, in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. Odense was the only town outside of Denmark’s capital to have a thea....[more] |
| Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (October 19, 1899 – June 9, 1974) was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat. Two of his most famous novels include El Señor Presidente (1946) and Hombres de maiz (English translation: Men of Maize) (1949).
Asturias was born in Guatemala City into a relatively privileged family. ....[more] |
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One of the preeminent American writers of the 20th century, James Baldwin is known for his commentary on the situation of blacks in the United States, using the mediums such as plays, novels, and essays to express his opinions and beliefs. Baldwin was born in 1924 and grew up poor in Harlem. When he was just seventee....[more] |
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