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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]

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Yudovich Ozimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. He also wrote mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited approximately five hundred books and more than nine thousand letters and postcards. One of his short sto....[more]

Debbie Macomber

Cooking, Crafts & Hobbies, Fiction, History, Religion

Debbie Macomber had only a high school degree and was dyslexic. She was also the young mother of four children. No one believed she had what it took to write a book. She eventually saved enough money to rent an old typewriter, and every night she would sit down to write. She wrote for years. But each time she mailed a ....[more]

Barbara Hurd

She's a Cover Girl! Check out Nursing in Virginia Magazine (Richmond Times Dispatch, fall issue, hard copy) for the full cover and leisure section article on Barbara and knitting. Watch for her fall and winter designs in some unexpected places! Barbara Hurd designs, writes, knits, gardens, and nurses in Charlotte....[more]

Vickie Howell

Eric Carle

Unclassified, Crafts & Hobbies, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

Eric Carle is an award-winning, children's picture book author and illustrator whose most recognized work is The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book. Carle was born to German parents in 1929 in Syracuse, New York. The family returned to Germany in 1935, moving to a suburb of Stuttgart. Carle disliked high school, quitti....[more]

Karen Greenberg

Crafts & Hobbies, Juvenile Nonfiction

Jane Austen

Crafts & Hobbies

Cuqui

Cuqui is trilingual. She writes poetry in English, Portuguese and Spanish. She has loved dogs, singing and dancing all types of music from the time she was small. In Rio, she did amateur theater, took dance and voice lessons and participated in a video for MTV.

James Flynn

Crafts & Hobbies

Aesop

For many, an illustrated version of Aesop’s Fables is ubiquitous with childhood. Born a slave, Aesop and his fables have become a staple of popular culture for generations. While his birthplace is a matter of much scholarly debate with Egypt, Ethiopia and Athens being presented as possibilities, some facts about his li....[more]

Patrick Robinson

Crafts & Hobbies

Jennifer Chiaverini

Crafts & Hobbies, Fiction

A former writing instructor at Pennsylvania State University, Jennifer Chiaverini lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she is at work on her third novel, "Cross Country Quilters". Her first novel, "The Quilter's Apprentice", is available in a Plume edition.

Chris Peterson

I'm a writer, editor and Yankees fan living in Brooklyn, New York. I ditched the Golden State 25 years ago because I was just too damn surly for that place. I write books mostly--working a non-fiction joint titled "The Weary Bachelor," and a book of short stories titled "The Blind Man's Mirror."

Eugenia Kim

Eugenia Kim's debut novel, THE CALLIGRAPHER'S DAUGHTER, won the 2009 Borders Original Voices Award, was shortlisted for the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and is a Best Book of 2009 by The Washington Post. Eugenia is an MFA graduate of Bennington College, and the 2011 Stanford Calderwood Fellow at The MacDowell Colo....[more]

Winky Cherry

I have been teaching children 5-11 for 35 years at Mount Tamalpais Schol in Mill Valley California and in Park and Recreation Department After School Programs. The books are a result of the curriculum I wrote and practiced while teaching. I plan to put the children's books on DVD with Palmer/Pletsch to have an interact....[more]

Michael Larsen

Born and educated in New York City, Michael Larsen worked for Bantam, William Morrow and Pyramid (now part of Berkley). He and his wife Elizabeth Pomada and started Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents in San Francisco in 1972. They are founding members of Association of Authors’ Representatives and have sold books,mostly by ....[more]