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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]

Max Lucado

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]

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]

Robert L. Ferrett

Bob recently retired as the Director of the Center for Instructional Computing at Eastern Michigan University, where he provided computer training and support to faculty. He has authored or co-authored more than 90 books on Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, WordPerfect, Word, Windows, and OpenOffice.org. He has bee....[more]

Education, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Reference

Judy Blume is considered one of the world's best-known writers for young adults. She was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1938. She earned a degree in education. Blume has written over 20 books. Titles such as "Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret", "Then Again, Maybe I Won't", and "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" ar....[more]

Charles Dickens

Haruki Murakami

Drama, Fiction, Health & Fitness, Language Arts & Disciplines, Psychology, Reference

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 & lives outside Tokyo.

Bill Bryson

Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, History, Humor, Language Arts & Disciplines, Reference, Science, Travel

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. In 1973, Bryson went backpacking in England, where he eventually decided to settle. He wrote for the English newspapers The Times and The Independent, as well as supplementing his income by writing travel articles. Bryson moved back to the States in 1995. His first tra....[more]

C. Robert Wolfe

Bob Wolfe was born in Bedford, Ind. He has lived throughout the state, as well as in Michigan and Illinois. After graduating from high school in Marion,Ind., he entered the Army and received specialized training as a construction forman in the combat engineers at Fort Belvoir, Va. He was expecting to serve in the Pa....[more]

W. Terry Whalin

W. Terry Whalin understands both sides of the editorial desk--as an editor and a writer. He worked as a magazine editor and his magazine work has appeared in more than 50 publications. A former book acquisitions editor for several publishers and a former literary agent, Terry is a Vice President and Publisher at In....[more]

Orson Scott Card

Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Reference, Religion, Social Science

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]

Steve Weber

David Mack

DAVID MACK is the bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including Wildfire, Harbinger, Reap the Whirlwind, Road of Bones, and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy: Gods of Night, Mere Mortals, and Lost Souls. His latest novel is the critically acclaimed supernatural thriller The Calling. In addition to novels, Ma....[more]

Philip Pullman

Drama, Education, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Poetry, Reference

Philip Pullman, 1946 - Philip Pullman was born in 1946 and spent part of his youth living in Australia and graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English. Pullman is the author of many acclaimed novels, plays, and picture books for readers of all ages. He is a recent recipient of the highest award given for ....[more]

Umberto Eco

Art, Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Foreign Language Study, History, Humor, Juvenile Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Photography, Reference, Religion, Science, Social Science, Travel

First a semiotician at the University of Bologna, and a leading figure in contemporary Italian culture, Eco brought semiotics to fiction in his first novel, The Name of the Rose (1980). This unexpected international best-seller employs the techniques of a detective novel along with sophisticated postmodern narrative an....[more]