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Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, he became a teacher. His spare time was spent writing short stories and novels. King's first novel would never have been published if not for his wife. She....[more]

Fiction, Juvenile Fiction

Stephenie Meyer was born in Connecticut in 1973. Her family moved to Arizona shortly thereafter. She is one of six children in her family. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Brigham Young University. She is married and has three boys. She began her writing career after her boys were born. Twilight was her....[more]

Biography & Autobiography, Education, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Science, Sports & Recreation

J. K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling was born in Gloucestershire, U. K. on July 31, 1965. Rowling attended Tutshill Primary and then went on to Wyedean Comprehensive where she was made Head Girl in her final year. She received a degree in French from Exeter University. She later took some teaching classes at Moray House Tea....[more]

Aaron Bowers was born in '78 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. For the first eight years of his life, he lived in the small town of Seymour. In 1986, he moved to Hobart, a suburb of Green Bay. In the summer of ‘88, doctors diagnosed him with Tourette Syndrome, Dyslexia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Attention Deficit Disor....[more]

Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction, House & Home, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Pets, Social Science

Dean Koontz was born July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania. He attended Shippensburg State College with a degree in Education. A former high school English teacher as well as a teacher-counselor with the Appalachian Poverty Program, Koontz began writing as a child to escape an ugly home life caused by his alcoholic fat....[more]

Seth Godin: - writes the most popular marketing blog in the world; - is the author of the bestselling marketing books of the last decade; - speaks to large groups on marketing, new media and what's next; - and is the founder of Squidoo.com, a fast-growing recommendation website. Godin is author of ten book....[more]

Biography & Autobiography, Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction, History, Juvenile Fiction, Psychology, Technology & Engineering

James Patterson, author and creator of the character Alex Cross, was born in Newburgh, New York, on March 22, 1947. He graduated from Manhattan College in 1969 and received a M. A. from Vanderbilt University in 1970. Patterson's first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, was written while he was working in a mental insti....[more]

Armineh Helen Ohanian

I was brought up in Iran before the Islamic revolution; earned my BA with honors from the Open University in the U.K.and lived in twelve countries before landing on the peaceful shores of Long Island. I paid my way through school writing the weekly romance feature in our church magazine in Tehran and translating childr....[more]

Fiction

Dan Brown was born and raised in the small New England town of Exeter, New Hampshire in 1964. He was a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts to writing. In 1996, his interest in code-breaking and covert government agencies led him t....[more]

Fiction, Literary Collections

Nora Roberts has published more than 130 novels, which have been translated into more than 25 languages. She writes romances under her own name and futuristic crime novels under the pseudonym of J. D. Robb. She has been given the Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into their Hal....[more]

David Hancock is recognized by NASDAQ as one of the world’s most prestigious business leaders and reported to be the future of publishing. He was also named a Finalist in the Best Chairman category in The 2006 American Business Awards. Hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars” by the New York Post. David was selec....[more]

Samir Selmanovic, Ph.D., is a founder and Christian co-leader of Faith House Manhattan, an interfaith “community of communities” that brings together forward-looking Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists and others who seek to thrive interdependently. Samir is also the director of a Christian community in New York City c....[more]

Sherry Ellis is a very busy author. She is a freelance writer who writes articles for parenting magazines, and children's publications. Her first book, That Baby Woke Me Up, AGAIN! was published in 2005. Her second, That Mama is a Grouch, was published in May of 2010. In her spare time, she is also a professional m....[more]

Antiques & Collectibles, Art, Biography & Autobiography, Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction, Humor, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Literary Collections, Performing Arts, Photography, Poetry, Religion

Neil Gaiman was born in 1960 in Portchester, England. He worked as a journalist and freelance writer for a time, before deciding to try his hand at comic books. Some of his work has appeared in publications such as "Time Out," "The Sunday Times," "Punch" and "The Observer." Gaiman's first comic endeavor was the graphic....[more]

Tim Atunnise is the senior pastor of Global Vision Ministries Inc in Atlanta- Georgia, USA. He was called into ministry at the age of 23 as a pastor, prophet and dynamic teacher of the Word. Atunnise believes that you must discover the anointing and power of God within you, realize that you have everything you need....[more]

David Meerman Scott is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, seminar leader, and the author of the hit book World Wide Rave. His previous book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR was a number-one bestseller and is being published in 22 languages. He is a recovering VP of marketing for two publicly t....[more]

Fiction

Bestselling novelist John Grisham is a former lawyer and politician. He was born in Jonesboro, Ark. in 1955. He was admitted to the bar in Mississippi in 1981 after earning his law degree from the University of Mississippi, specializing in criminal law. While a lawyer in private practice in Southaven, Miss., Grisham se....[more]

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]