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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]

Seth Godin

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]

J.K. Rowling

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]

Ernest Hemingway

Dean Koontz

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]

Mark Twain

Tom Clancy

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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]

Jane Austen

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]

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]

Barbara Kingsolver

Art, Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, History, Juvenile Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Nature, Poetry, Travel

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]

Diana Gabaldon

Fiction, Literary Criticism

Diana Gabaldon was born in Flagstaff, Arizona on January 11, 1952 . She has a Ph.D. in Quantitative Behavioral Ecology, a M.S. in Marine Biology, and a B.S. in Zoology. She has worked as a university Professor and has written freelance for various magazines and companies such as Walt Disney. Gabaldon is the well-known ....[more]

Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr is the author of a series of mysteries involving national parks. She draws on her own experience as a National Park Service ranger to thrill readers with the majesty of nature. Anna Pigeon, the heroine of such novels as A Superior Death and Endangered Species is a rough-and-tough ranger who left the wilds o....[more]

Margaret Atwood

Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Political Science, Social Science

Born November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Canada, Margaret Atwood spent her early years in the northern Quebec wilderness. Settling in Toronto in 1946, she continued to spend summers in the northern woods. This experience provided much of the thematic material for her verse. Atwood began her writing career as a poet, short st....[more]

Edgar Allan Poe

William Shakespeare

Peter Conn

Peter Conn is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917 (Cambridge University Press, 1983; paperback editions, 1988 and 2008), and Literature in America (Cambridge University Press, 1989), which was a main selection ....[more]

Anne Rice

Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Social Science

Novelist Anne Rice, best known as the creator of the vampire Lestat and his literary cohorts, was born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1959 Anne began classes at Texas Woman's College in Denton. She transferred to San Francisco State University, and earned her Bachelor's Degree in ....[more]

Beth Luey

Beth Luey is the founding director emerita of the Scholarly Publishing Program at Arizona State University. She conducts workshops on publishing for faculty members on campuses throughout the country. She has been the president of the Association for Documentary Editing and of the Society for the History of Authorsh....[more]

Michael Connelly

Fiction, Literary Criticism, Social Science

Michael Connelly graduated from the University of Florida in 1980 where he majored in journalism and minored in creative writing. After graduation, he worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, specializing in the crime beat. He was writing about the police and crime during the wave of violence....[more]