Author Listings (Fantasy & Magic)
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| Christian teaches science, psychology and is the Subject Leader for critical thinking at Riddlesdown Collegiate. He is also the author of the children's fantasy novel, THE ENCHANTED AMULET.
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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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| Alma Alexander is a novelist whose work has appeared in more than a dozen languages worldwide. Some of her best known works are "The Secrets of Jin Shei" and the YA Worldweavers trilogy ("Gift of the Unmage", "Spellspam", "Cybermage") She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, two cats, and assorted visiting ....[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] |
| Peter S. Beagle, April, 1939 - Peter Soyer Beagle was born in Manhattan in April of 1939 to Simon and Rebecca Soyer Beagle. He was raised in the Bronx, New York, and attended Bronx High School. During his senior year, Beagle entered a poem and a short story in the 1955 Scholastic Writing Awards Contest, not knowing tha....[more] |
| Holly Black is the bestselling author of several contemporary fantasy novels for kids and teens. Some of her books are Tithe, Valiant, Ironside, the Spiderwick Chronicles series (with Tony DiTerlizzi) and the graphic novel series, The Good Neighbors (with Ted Naifeh). She lives in Amherst, MA in a house with a secret....[more] |
| Writes and illustrates books for children, primarily picture books and early-reader chapter books. The subject matter tends to be childhood social-issues oriented:
Shyness & Moving Away (A Tiger Called Thomas),
Friendship & Feeling left out (I'm Not Invited?),
Practice and Perseverance (Our Marching Band),
Diffi....[more] |
| Carey Borgens, a native of Texas, was born in Denton. Her parents divorced when she was young, giving her the opportunity to live in many different places across the United States such as: Derby, Connecticut; Bass Harbor, Maine;San Jose, California; and even spent a summer in Montreal, Canada. She has lived long term i....[more] |
| Bill Bridges is a game designer at CCP/White Wolf. He is the co-creator of Holistic Design’s Fading Suns science fiction game universe, and was the lead designer of the award-winning Storytelling system rules for White Wolf's World of Darkness games. He designed and developed the award-winning games Mage: The Awakening....[more] |
| I didn't always want to be a writer. I spent ten whole years not even thinking about being a writer. Then, one warm summer night, I was outside chasing lightning bugs with some friends and somehow ended up telling them a story. A campfire story, with a monster and everything--and they ate it up.
Who can resist the w....[more] |
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