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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]
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]
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A Young Adult author of numerous novels for young adults, including the Vampire Island and Witch Twins series. Her novels Sons of Liberty and Where I Want to Be were both National Book Award Finalists. Adele lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Erich and their daughter, Priscilla.
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]
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]
2008 Georgia Author of the Year Pamela Bauer Mueller was raised in Oregon and graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She worked as a flight attendant for Pan American Airlines before moving to Mexico City, where she lived for eighteen years. Pamela is bicultural as well as bilingual. She has worked....[more]
CAROLINE PIGNAT is the author of EGGHEAD (Red Deer Press, 2008) GREENER GRASS (Red Deer Press, 2008) and its sequel WILD GEESE (Red Deer Press, 2010.) Her articles regularly appear in Living Faith for Kids and she has published two family Advent booklets: " In the Presence of the Lord" and "A Circle of Love." Caroline’....[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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As niece of fallen Chilean president Salvador Allende, Isabel Allende attracted immediate interest when she appeared on the U.S. literary scene in the mid-1980s. On its own merits, though, The House of the Spirits (1982; English translation 1985) is a superb novel. Four generations of Chilean women-female descendants o....[more]
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Ray Bradbury, author of more than 500 stories, poems, essays, plays, films, television plays, radio, music, and comic books, was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. Twice during his childhood, Bradbury moved with his family to Arizona, returning to the midwest both times before settling permanently in Los A....[more]
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