Author Listings (Science & Technology)
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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] |
| 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] |
| A SynergEbooks best selling author
Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist
Eric Hoffer Award Finalist
Indie Excellence Book Award Finalist
Hollywood Book Festival Honorable Mention
After spending most of my life in the entertainment industry (you can catch me in various episodes of Rags to Riches and some v....[more] |
| Diane Duane was born in Manhattan in 1952, a Year of the Dragon. She was raised on Long Island, in the New York City suburbs. In high school she won a Regents Science and Nursing scholarship, and her first studies in college were toward a degree in astrophysics. A total inability to handle calculus and other higher mat....[more] |
| Author of 8 science fiction novels -- 2 for adults and 6 for Young Adults. Editor of nonfiction anthologies for high schools. Some YA nonfiction and YA science fiction anthologies published long ago. |
| Andrew Fraknoi is the Chair of the Astronomy Program at Foothill College near San Francisco, where he teaches courses on “astronomy and physics for poets” attended by 900+ students each year. In 2007, he was selected as Professor of the Year for the state of California by the Carnegie Endowment for Higher Education.
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| 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] |
| 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] |
| The story of Scott
Christian Sava and his pursuit of Happily Ever After...
Once upon a time, an animator in the faraway land of
Hollywood made wondrous
television and film
characters seemingly come to life.
As more and more studios saw this animator’s work, his studio grew and grew. But this animator (we’ll c....[more] |
| David Michael Slater writes for children, teens, and adults. He is the author of sixteen picture books, including CHEESE LOUISE; THE RING BEAR (an SSLI Honor Book); JACQUES & SPOCK (a Children's Book-of-the-Month Alternative Selection); and FLOUR GIRL (a 2008 Mom's Choice Award winner). Slater's teen series, SACRED BOO....[more] |
| With her newest picture book coming in 2011 (Marimba Books/Kensington) titled ALOHA FOR CAROL ANN, illustrated by Priscilla Garcia Burris, Margo Sorenson is the author of over twenty-six books for young readers. She was born in Washington, DC, and spent the first seven years of her life in Spain and Italy, living where....[more] |
| The youngest of five children born to Filipino immigrant parents, Brian Tacang was reared up in Fremont, California, a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a child, he dreamed of becoming a movie director, or an author of fantasy books, or an artist when he grew up. He eventually became a fashion designer, then, at....[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] |
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