Author Listings (Action & Adventure)
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| P.J. HarteNaus has reached one of her many goals in her life...that of being an author. At the age of eight, she read Laura Ingalls Wilder books with a passion. Her grandmother would give those books to her as gifts and together they would share the stories over and over again. These books, of course, helped to form....[more] |
| 75years of life's experiences is conveyed through Carol's writing, and the human element is realized through fictional characters. Featured since 2011 is Jed in "The Whack Of The Closing Stanchions~Far From Papa's Hill In Vietnam~1967". Alone at his Grandad's farm in Iver Crossing, Jed encourages his 5th grade friend....[more] |
| Minister and best-selling Christian author Max Lucado was educated at Abilene Christian University. He has been pastor of the Oak Hills Church of Christ in San Antonio, Texas since 1988. He also hosts UpWords, a fifteen minute radio show that can be heard in thirty states. Lucado has authored over twenty books, three o....[more] |
| Stephen V. Masse was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He wrote his first practice novel at age 13, handwritten into a school composition book.
Educated at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he studied creative writing, and was author of a weekly newspaper column, "Out of Control." His first novel for children....[more] |
| Leah Orr is a Best Selling Children's Author.Her books are mostly enjoyed by K 1st and 2nd Graders in The USA and the UK. She resides in Weston, Florida with her husband and three daughters. Leah has written 4 books. Messy Tessy is the most recent.
While babysitter Aunt Fran is asleep, Messy Tessy finds humorous w....[more] |
| Robinson is the co-author of the recent New York Times #1 nonfiction bestseller LONE SURVIVOR. His most recent novel, TO THE DEATH, is a fast-paced thriller and the grand finale of his gripping bestselling series featuring Admiral Arnold Morgan.
He is also the author of eight international bestselling suspense th....[more] |
| Michele Torrey first became a published author at age ten, when her story about a dinosaur egg popping out of the kitchen sink appeared in the Seaview Heights Elementary newspaper. Her fifth grade class, located in Edmonds, Washington, wrote, edited, and published the newspaper.
While Torrey has lived most of her li....[more] |
| Mort a Walker was born in 1923 in El Dorado, Kansas. He published his first comic when he was 11 and sold his first cartoon at 12. By 14, he was selling gag cartoons regularly to Child Life, Inside Detective and Flying Aces magazines. At 15, he was a comic-strip artist for a daily metropolitan newspaper and at 18, he b....[more] |
| Author Sheila Walsh writes books for children and adults. She is also a Grammy-nominated singer and speaks at the Women of Faith conferences. On television, she co-hosted The 700 Club and had her own talk show Heart to Heart with Sheila Walsh on the Family Channel. She currently lives in Texas with her husband and they....[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] |
| Max Elliot Anderson grew up as a reluctant reader. After surveying the market, he sensed the need for action-adventures and mysteries for readers 8 and up, especially boys.
Mr. Anderson was a producer of the nationally televised PBS special, Gospel at the Symphony that was nominated for an Emmy, and won a Grammy f....[more] |
| Besides his advertising work, Greg Banning has built up a solid reputation in publishing. He has illustrated hundreds of hard and soft cover books for notable clients that include, Penguin Books, Raincoast Books, Random House, McClelland and Stewart and Scolastic. He has also had the privilege of illustrating the cover....[more] |
| Tracy Barrett is the author of numerous books for young readers, including the award-winning biographical novel, ANNA OFBYZANTIUM (Delacorte, 1999). Her most recent publications are two young-adult novels, DARK OF THE MOON (Harcourt, 2011) and KING OF ITHAKA (Henry Holt, 2010), and the four books in her middle-grade se....[more] |
| Wayne Thomas Batson is the Bestselling author of five adventure novels including the fantasy epic Door Within Trilogy and the pirate duo Isle of Swords and Isle of Fire. A middle school Reading and English teacher for 18 years, Batson loves to challenge—and be challenged by—his students. So, when he began writing stori....[more] |
| I like to think that I am the constant 'sage'. I want to learn and or experience a lot of different things on different continents in different countries. I use my personal experiences to create; either characters I write about, ones I invent or scenery I draw. I also have the patience and the willingness to listen ....[more] |
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