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  Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a ne

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  Bernard Cornwell

  Cornwell was born in London in 1944. His father was a Canadian airman, and his mother, who was English, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted and brought up in Essex by the Wiggins family, who were members of the Peculiar People, a strict Protestant sect who banned frivolity of all kinds and even medicine. After he left them, he changed his name to his birth mother's maiden name, Cornwell.
  
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  Scott Westerfeld

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  Brandon Sanderson

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  Chris Wallace

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  Ned Blackhawk

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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).
  
  This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
  
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  C.S. Lewis

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  Kiersten White

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  Matt Taylor

  Matt Taylor is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, where he studied early American History. JAWS: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard , his first publication, is the culmination of a lifelong passion for art, film, and New England history. He is a fifteenth-generation resident of Martha’s Vineyard, where he lives with his wife and children.

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  Lana Harper

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  Erin Sterling

  Pen name of Rachel Hawkins.
  
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