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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]
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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]
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. It was honored as a finalist in the Parenting/F....[more]
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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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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]
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]
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Thomas L. Clancy, Jr., known to his multitudes of fans as Tom Clancy, was born in 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Loyola College in 1969, became an insurance agent, and in 1973 became the owner of an insurance agency. It was not until 1980 that he started writing military thrillers. Clancy's novels are h....[more]
Eileen Goudge was born July 4, 1950 and grew up in the San Francisco bay area. She began writing at the age of eight. At eighteen, she ran off with a man dodging the draft, and a year later, returned home from British Columbia with a baby and broke. She began writing non-stop and managed to sell a few articles. In the ....[more]
Leah Orr is a Best Selling Children's Author.Her books are mostly enjoyed by K 1st and 2nd Graders in The USA and the UK. She resides in Weston, Florida with her husband and three daughters. Leah has written 4 books. Messy Tessy is the most recent. While babysitter Aunt Fran is asleep, Messy Tessy finds humorous w....[more]
Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who pioneered the field of media therapy. She teaches at Yale University, where she is a fellow at Calhoun College, and Princeton University, where she is a fellow at Butler College. She is also an adjunct professor at NYU and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medici....[more]
It is hard to find a more polarizing author than Austen, who was revered by her admirers and despised by her critics. Either way, her works demand a passionate response two hundred years after they were published. Born in 1775 in England to a middle-class family, Austen had her greatest success shortly before her death....[more]
Ann Shannon is an educator and author of children's books that reflect children having fun while learning. She enjoys reading, writing and learning. She has a graduate degree in Education and she has taught elementary, high school and college. She is the mother of two college students. The Wilder Kids will be sold as ....[more]
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]
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Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland and grew up in Eastern Kentucky. As a child, Kingsolver used to beg her mother to tell her bedtime stories. She soon started to write stories and essays of her own, and at the age of nine, she began to keep a journal. After graduating with a degree in ....[more]
Lori A. Moore teaches college both online as well as in her hometown of Louisville, KY where she lives with her husband Michael and their three cats. Lori has a passion for adults who haven’t yet experienced a relationship with Christ because everything they’ve heard is kind of formal and scary. She tries to write wi....[more]
Lin Edmonds is the pen name of Lin Harbertson. Lin lives in California with her husband, four dogs and two ponies. When she is not out driving her ponies, she manages her husband's dental practice and reads her books at the local schools. She was inspired to write these stories for her grandchildren by Patric, a s....[more]
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