Author Listings (Biography & Autobiography)
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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] |
| Inspired by a lifelong love of nature, endless curiosity, and a belief in wonderful things, the author, writing as Amy Sterling Casil, is a 2002 Nebula Award nominee and recipient of other awards and recognition for her short science fiction and fantasy which has appeared in publications ranging from The Magazine of Fa....[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] |
| Jennifer Fandel has published more than 30 children and young adult nonfiction books, including biographies of inspirational figures, cultural histories of major inventions and icons, a how-to-write poetry series, and graphic novels on historical figures and inventions. Her book THE LIGHT BULB received the Bologna Raga....[more] |
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Nancy Furstinger is the author of nearly 100 books, including many on her favorite topic: animals! She started her writing career in third grade, when a play she wrote was performed by her class. Since then, Nancy has been a feature writer for a daily newspaper, a managing editor of trade and consumer magazines, an....[more] |
| Judith Harlan is a lifelong journalist, copywriter, editor, SEO content specialist, eBook marketer, book author, teacher, pen-pusher and former Zydeco sound-techie. The focus today is on Web content, eBooks and commerce. She’s perpetually excited about the sometimes crazy, always exciting, new ways in which we’re all c....[more] |
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Ann Hodgman is the author of over 40 childrens' books, several humor books, and three cookbooks: Beat This!, Beat That!, and One Bite Won't Kill You. She has also written articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Smithsonia....[more] |
| I am an entertainment journalist who has covered the television medium for a number of different magazines. My new book, Jonas Brothers Forever, is due out in spring 2009. You can read my blog at: http://susanjanic.wordpress.com/ |
| Deb Lucke is a writer and illustrator of children's books with an interest in bad behavior and horribly embarrassing incidents. Since her own childhood had plenty of both she is never short of material.
"The Book of Time Outs"—bad behavior in history.
"The Boy Who Wouldn't Swim"— bad behavior and a horribly emba....[more] |
| Co-author of bestselling family communication journals (Picture of Me, The Book of Myself, The Book of Us, What I Love About You) and Director for Digital Communities at Berrett-Koehler Publishers in San Francisco.
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| 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] |
| Although I didn't want the magic to end, I graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1986, thus ending what I fondly recall as a wonderful college experience. Nobody told me to "Go west, young woman." But two years later I did it anyway, heading west and WAY south to Brownsville, Texas, on the border with Mexic....[more] |
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