Lucia Monfried
Lucia Monfried is a retired senior editor from Dial Books for Young Readers, where she specialized in picture books, chapter books, and early novels.
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Wilson Rawls
Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in the Ozark country of Scraper, Oklahoma. His mother home-schooled her children, and after Rawls read Jack London's canine-centered tale Call of the Wild, he decided to become a writer.
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But the Great Depression hit the United States in 1929, and Rawls left home to find work. His family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1935, and he came home each fall to work and hunt. He wrote stories while he traveled, but his lack of formal education hampered his grammar, and he could not sell anything. In 1958, he gave up on his dream and burned all his work. He later revealed his literary desires to his wife, Sophie, and she encouraged him to keep writing.
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Lisa Church
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Lisa Church is a mother of three, author of 12 books, graduate of Penn State University, and elementary teacher with over 30 years of experience. She resides in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania with her husband, children, a loyal crazy, a crazy cairn terrier, a cat named Phineas, and a kitten who could set a world-record for loudest and most constant purr.
Church is the author of a parenting guide, numerous curriculum materials, four juvenile fiction pieces, an adult murder mystery, a romance novel, and five abridged novels through Sterling / Barnes & Noble's well known Classic Starts Series. She continues to teach, write, and garner inspiration from her family, friends, and the world around her.
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Shirley Bogart
Shirley Bogart is a published adapter and an author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Shirley Bogart include Moby Dick (Great Illustrated Classics), The Prince and the Pauper (Great Illustrated Classics), The Time Machine (Great Illustrated Classics), and The Prince and the Pauper (Great Illustrated Classics).
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John Grisham
John Grisham is the author of more than fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Framed, Camino Ghosts and The Exchange: After the Firm.
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Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
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Shirley Bogart
Shirley Bogart is a published adapter and an author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Shirley Bogart include Moby Dick (Great Illustrated Classics), The Prince and the Pauper (Great Illustrated Classics), The Time Machine (Great Illustrated Classics), and The Prince and the Pauper (Great Illustrated Classics).
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a beloved British author, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot, best known for his enchanting and often darkly humorous children's books that have captivated generations of readers around the world. Born in Llandaff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Dahl led a life marked by adventure, tragedy, creativity, and enduring literary success. His vivid imagination and distinctive storytelling style have made him one of the most celebrated children's authors in modern literature.
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Before becoming a writer, Dahl lived a life filled with excitement and hardship. He served as a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II, surviving a near-fatal crash in the Libyan desert. His wartime experiences and travels deeply influenced his story -
Ian Edginton
Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005).
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His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Me -
Kathleen Olmstead
Kathleen Olmstead is the author of several Classic Starts books, including Anne of Avonlea and Moby Dick, as well as Jacques Cousteau: A Life Under the Sea and Matthew Henson: The Quest for the North Pole, both in the Sterling Biographies series.
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Deanna McFadden
Publishing Director, Wattpad Books. Reader. Sometime writer. Mother. Wife. Never in that order. Will often find me reading and walking, which isn't as remotely dangerous as it sounds.
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Lisa Church
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Lisa Church is a mother of three, author of 12 books, graduate of Penn State University, and elementary teacher with over 30 years of experience. She resides in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania with her husband, children, a loyal crazy, a crazy cairn terrier, a cat named Phineas, and a kitten who could set a world-record for loudest and most constant purr.
Church is the author of a parenting guide, numerous curriculum materials, four juvenile fiction pieces, an adult murder mystery, a romance novel, and five abridged novels through Sterling / Barnes & Noble's well known Classic Starts Series. She continues to teach, write, and garner inspiration from her family, friends, and the world around her.
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Christopher Sergel
Christopher Sergel's interests and talents led him on many adventures throughout the world. As captain of the schooner Chance, he spent two years in the South Pacific; as a writer for Sports Afield magazine, he lived in the African bush for a year; as a lieutenant commander during WWII, he taught celestial navigation; as a playwright, his adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio was seen on Broadway. But throughout his life, his greatest adventure and deepest love was his work with Dramatic Publishing. During this time, he wrote adaptations of To Kill a Mockingbird, Cheaper By the Dozen, The Mouse That Roared, Up the Down Staircase, Fame, Black Elk Speaks and many more. His love of theatre and his caring for writers made him a gene
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Beth Johnson
Beth Johnson is Associate Professor of Media and Film at the University of Leeds, UK. She is author of Paul Abbott (2013), and co-editor of Television, Sex and Society: Analyzing Contemporary Representations (2012) and Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain (2017) with David Forrest.
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Hiawyn Oram
Hiawyn Oram is a very successful author of children's books in Britain. Her books include the popular Not-So-Grizzly Bear Stories, the Animal Heroes series, and Mona the Vampire. She lives in London.
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Jules Verne
Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
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This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
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E.B. White
Elwyn Brooks White was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist and author of such beloved children's classics as Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. He graduated from Cornell University in 1921 and, five or six years later, joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine. He authored over seventeen books of prose and poetry and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973.
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White always said that he found writing difficult and bad for one's disposition.
Mr. White has won countless awards, including the 1971 National Medal for Literature and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, which commended him for making “a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.” -
Deanna McFadden
Publishing Director, Wattpad Books. Reader. Sometime writer. Mother. Wife. Never in that order. Will often find me reading and walking, which isn't as remotely dangerous as it sounds.
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Kathleen Olmstead
Kathleen Olmstead is the author of several Classic Starts books, including Anne of Avonlea and Moby Dick, as well as Jacques Cousteau: A Life Under the Sea and Matthew Henson: The Quest for the North Pole, both in the Sterling Biographies series.
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Beth Johnson
Beth Johnson is Associate Professor of Media and Film at the University of Leeds, UK. She is author of Paul Abbott (2013), and co-editor of Television, Sex and Society: Analyzing Contemporary Representations (2012) and Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain (2017) with David Forrest.
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Rochelle Larkin
Rochelle Larkin, who has written more than two dozen books, lives with her children in New York City.
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