Nancy Springer
BIO -- NANCY SPRINGER
Nancy Springer has passed the fifty-book milestone, having written that many novels for adults, young adults and children, in genres including mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, magical realism, horror, and mystery -- although she did not realize she wrote mystery until she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America two years in succession. DARK LIE, recently released from NAL, is her first venture into mass-market psychological suspense.
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Nancy Springer moved with her family to Gettysburg, of Civil War fame, when she was thirteen. She spent the next forty-six years in Pennsylvania, raising two children (Jonathan, now 38, and Nora, 34), writing, horseback riding
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Peter Abrahams is an American author of crime fiction for both adults and children.
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Andrew Lane
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Winner of the Times /Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2015.
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During 1930s and 1940s, Foglar worked as a magazine editor in one of the largest Prague publishing houses, Melantrich. He edited several journals for youths:
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Eduard Petiška
Eduard Petiška (1924 – 1987) was a Czech poet, translator, playwright and novelist, the author of many books for children and young people, and a translator and theorist of children's literature. He wrote over ninety books, which were translated to dozens of languages.
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Jednym z jej pierwszych wspomnień jest graffiti, które z wielką pasją wykonała kredkami świecowymi na ścianie swojego pokoju (korzystając z okazji, chciałaby przeprosić późniejszego właściciela tego lokalu). Bardzo wcześnie, z absolutną powagą, poświęciła się sztukom plastycznym, a szczególnie rzeźbie w plastelinie, haftom i szydełkowaniu. Gdy tylko ukończyła studia na ASP we Wrocławiu, niezwłocznie wróciła do klejenia, szycia i dziergania. Zilustrowała kilkanaście książek dla dzieci, pisze wiersze, kaligrafuje i tłumaczy, a w jej pracowni znajdują się tysiące kolorowych szmatek. Sypia na nich biało-rudy kocur, bohater bajki Ja, Bobik, czyli prawdziwa historia o kocie, który myślał, że jest królem, wyróżnionej przez Polską Sekcję IBBY w kon
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Drs. Diana and Milton Lieberman are tropical biologists who live on their small coffee farm in the mountains of Costa Rica. Prior to the utterly serendipitous launching of their work as “kid-lit” authors, they enjoyed lengthy and peripatetic careers in university teaching and research (University of Ghana; University of North Dakota; University of Georgia; California State University Monterey Bay). Diana’s academic training was in tropical botany and forest ecology (Ph.D., University of Ghana); Milton’s was in evolutionary ecology and environmental biology (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine). They have published (and continue to publish) research articles in scientific journals on a wide range of subjects, from food habits of baboons
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For 20 years a leading Fleet Street journalist with columns in The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Express and Today, he is now a best-selling author whose seminal biography of Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, is the acknowledged source material for all other books and TV films on the subject. The book, A Greater Love - Charles and Camilla, was turned into a top-rated TV documentary screened in the USA, UK, and 26 other countries around the world.
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He is a regular contributor to TV debates and documentaries on the British royals, and he lectures widely on the subject. Currently writing a biography of the Queen’s uncle – Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-42) – his other books include:-
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Celine Kiernan
Celine Kiernan is an award-winning author of fantasy novels for young adults. Her critically acclaimed work combines fantasy elements with the exploration of political, humanitarian and philosophical themes. She is best known for The Moorehawke Trilogy, a dark, complex trilogy of fantasy YA books set in an alternative renaissance Europe. First published in Celine’s native Ireland in 2008, the trilogy has since been published in 15 different territories, and translated into 10 different languages. In 2009 the first book of the Moorehawke Trilogy, The Poison Throne, won The Readers’ Association of Ireland Award for best book; it was included in the White Raven Collection and short listed for the 2009 Irish Book Awards in two categories (Best
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