Author Listings (Girls & Women)
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| 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] |
| It's no secret how Jen Calonita knows the inside scoop on young Hollywood. A former Senior Entertainment Editor at Teen People, Jen has interviewed everyone from Reese Witherspoon to Zac Efron. An entertainment journalist for the past ten years, Jen has written for TV Guide, Glamour and Marie Claire.
Jen's first nov....[more] |
| In 1996, Veronica Chambers wrote Mama's Girl, a memoir about growing up. Mama's Girl was a Book of the Month Club selection and an American Library Association Best Book of 1996. In 1991, she co-wrote her first book Poetic Justice: Filmmaking South Central Style with film-maker John Singleton. She had interviewed John ....[more] |
| I spend my days playing roles, some real and some imaginary.
In the morning, I’m mother to a young daughter whose favorite saying is, “Oh, man!” I’m a wife fixing lunch for her artist husband.
When my family leaves for school and work, I’m a twelve-year-old girl who travels by ship in 1524 from the Old World....[more] |
| First and foremost, I am a word smith. Writing is the craft of using words to fulfill the need to express oneself. Self-expression is the basis of self-confidence, which is a most worthy achievement. My list of published titles includes fiction and nonfiction. Each one was written to entertain, delight, touch and inspi....[more] |
| From food to fiction, Kate likes things spicy. She writes sexy romance for Samhain Publishing and Siren Publishing, and has books available in both e-format and print. When she isn't writing about strong, sexy men and women finding their happily-ever-afters, she spends her time playing with the kids and hanging with he....[more] |
| Award-winning author Ellen Feld began her career in a field far removed from horses. Receiving a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts with a double major of Russian and Soviet and Eastern European Studies, Ms. Feld continued her studies with graduate work at Georgetown University where she focused on Russian Studi....[more] |
| Children's author Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in psychology in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of bus....[more] |
| Hillary Homzie was born in Denver, Colorado and then moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she was raised. After graduating from the University of Virginia, she lived in Philadelphia and New York City. Currently, she resides with her family in Northern California.
She is the author of the tween novel, Things Ar....[more] |
| Author of over 40 titles for children - including picture books and novels for a wide variety of age groups and interests - Hazel is a popular presenter at schools and libraries across the country. Recent awards include the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature for ....[more] |
| Brian James was born in 1976 and grew up outside of Philadelphia. After attending NYU, he worked as a children's book editor in New York. He now lives in the Catskill region of the New York State where he is a full time writer. He has written several YA novels including Zombie Blondes, Pure Sunshine, and Thief (2009 AL....[more] |
| Everyone loves a good cry, and no one delivers heartwrenching stories better than Lurlene McDaniel.
But there’s more to her books than that. McDaniel has written numerous novels about kids who face life-threatening illnesses, who sometimes do not survive. These are powerful, inspirational stories about courage, love....[more] |
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