Author Listings (Adolescence)
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| 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] |
| Simon Cheshire grew up in Warwickshire, England. From a young age, he was a dedicated reader and would spend many hours absorbed in books, happily dreaming of faraway places, and completely ignoring his mother's cries of "Go out and get some fresh air, for heaven's sake!"
Simon's first book appeared in 1997, and sin....[more] |
| Kerry Cohen received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Oregon and an MA in counseling psychology from Pacific University. She teaches memoir through Gotham Writers' Workshops, writes as often as she can, and lives with her family in Portland, Oregon. |
| 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] |
| 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.
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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] |
| 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] |
| Kelly McClymer is a woman of many contradictions, which stem from being raised half in South Carolina and half in Delaware. She learned to question early on, and somehow has not snapped out of the "Why?" stage, much to the consternation of her family. However, that has fueled her imagination for twelve novels and count....[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] |
| Jess Mowry was born in 1960 in Mississippi and raised by his father in Oakland, California. Jess has been a truck driver and heavy equipment operator in Arizona, and engineer on a tugboat in Alaska as well as working on cargo airplanes. Returning to Oakland in 1988, he bought a used typewriter and began writing stories....[more] |
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