Author Listings (Humor)
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| Mort a Walker was born in 1923 in El Dorado, Kansas. He published his first comic when he was 11 and sold his first cartoon at 12. By 14, he was selling gag cartoons regularly to Child Life, Inside Detective and Flying Aces magazines. At 15, he was a comic-strip artist for a daily metropolitan newspaper and at 18, he b....[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] |
| NY Times bestselling author of over fifty books of humor and inspiration.
Emmy-nominated staff writer for Bob Hope (both personal appearances and television specials). Recipient of four Angel awards and a Dove award nomination.
Scriptwriter of hundreds of comedy sketches and other scripts. Her books include Didn'....[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] |
| Jackie Horsfall credits her long and successful writing career to a job right out of college -- hired into the Correspondence Section at the White House, answering the President's mail. An author of a dozen joke-and-riddle books and an award-winning nature activity book, "Play Lightly on the Earth" (Dawn), Jackie's al....[more] |
| Jean Davies Okimoto's latest book, The Love Ceiling, was a winner of a 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award and Women’s Fiction Finalist, USA Book News National Best Books 2009 Award. She is also the recipient of the American Library Association "Best Books for Young Adults" Award, the International Reading Associatio....[more] |
| Born in Dubuque, Iowa, Rabe was educated at Loras College and Villanova. His service in Vietnam has had a major influence on his work, particularly in his early plays. In 1971 both The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, which traces a soldier's life from basic training to an ugly and ironic death in Vietnam, and Sticks an....[more] |
| Carol Fisher Saller is a senior manuscript editor at the University of Chicago Press and editor of the Chicago Manual of Style Online Q&A. |
| 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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