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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]

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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]

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]

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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]

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]

Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction, 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]

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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]

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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, the Chief Evangelist for The Entrepreneurial Author and Master Guerrilla Marketer is the founder of Morgan James Publishing. Recognized in 2008 by NASDAQ as one of the world’s most prestigious business leaders. He was also named a finalist in the Best Chairman category in the 2006 American Business Award....[more]

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Bestselling writer Charlaine Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi on November 25, 1951. She attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Harris wrote poetry and plays before beginning to publish mysteries set in the American South. The first book in her Aurora Teagarden series, "Real Murders," was nominated in 1990....[more]

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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]

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, Language Arts & Disciplines

Janet Evanovich is a writer of crime fiction. She attended Douglas College and graduated as an art major. Evanovich was working as a secretary for a temporary employment agency when she sold her first romance novel. She went on to write 12 romances in five years before beginning to write mysteries. Her first mystery no....[more]

Writers are alchemists with the ability to suspend time, to transport others to another world or reality, to make mortal a figment of our imaginations. Nadine Laman, 2007 Nadine Laman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. As luck would have it, she was born into a family of writers and had dyslexia. Unable....[more]

The author of seven novels and two collections of essays on wine, Jay McInerney is a regular contributor to New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Independent, and Corriere della Sera. His short fiction has apeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy and Granta. In 2006, Time magazine cited his 1984 deb....[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 shores of Long Island. I paid my way through school writing the weekly romance feature in our church magazine in Tehran and translating books from Fars....[more]

Fiction, Poetry, Social Science

Walter (Wally) Lamb was born in Norwich, Conn., in 1950. He attended the University of Connecticut, receiving a B.A. in 1972 and an M.A. in 1977; he also earned an M.F.A. from Vermont College in 1984. Lamb has written numerous short stories, most notably "Astronauts", which received both the Pushcart Prize and the Univ....[more]

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Orson Scott Byron Walley Card, was born in 1951 and studied theater at Brigham Young University. He received his B.A. in 1975 and his M.A. in English in 1981. He wrote plays during that time, including Stone Tables (1973) and the musical, Father, Mother, Mother and Mom (1974). A Mormon, Scott served a two year mission ....[more]

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