Author Listings (Social Issues)
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| 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] |
| 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] |
| Graphic designer; business writer; editor; children's book illustrator. Currently writing children's books for submission. |
| Maggie Anton was born Margaret Antonofsky in Los Angeles, California. Raised in a secular, socialist household, she reached adulthood with little knowledge of her Jewish religion. All that changed when David Parkhurst, who was to become her husband, entered her life, and they both discovered Judaism as adults. That was....[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] |
| 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] |
| I was born in a large city,but grew up in a small town, in Poland. I attended all levels of my schooling in Poland, including the pursuit of my degree in the field of Pedagogy. I met my future husband at a summer camp. We both finished college and were married in 1980. My education, was immediately put to good use ....[more] |
| Erik wrote his first book, The Practically Perfect Pajamas (Winslow Press 2000), because he wanted to have something to illustrate. Ten years and 13 books later, he is working full-time in the children's book world and is currently testing the waters of better self-promotion :)
Stay tuned for a more complete bio so....[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] |
| Just before turning 60, I totally remade my life. After chronicling my transformation from butterball to butterfly in weekly newspaper articles, I invited others in my community to join the fun. More than 1,000 people teamed up to lose 4 tons of fat in 2 months.
I have background in business leadership, marketing, pub....[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] |
| 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] |
| James M. Deem is the author of numerous books of nonfiction and fiction, including the 2009 Sibert Honor Book, Bodies from the Ice: Melting glaciers and the recovery of the past.
Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, he moved to Tucson, Arizona, with his family when he was eleven. He earned a Bachelor's degree in langua....[more] |
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