V.C. Andrews
Books published under the following names - Virginia Andrews, V. Andrews, Virginia C. Andrews & V.C. Endrius. Books since her death ghost written by Andrew Neiderman, but still attributed to the V.C. Andrews name
Virginia Cleo Andrews (born Cleo Virginia Andrews) was born June 6, 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia. The youngest child and the only daughter of William Henry Andrews, a career navy man who opened a tool-and-die business after retirement, and Lillian Lilnora Parker Andrews, a telephone operator. She spent her happy childhood years in Portsmouth, Virginia, living briefly in Rochester, New York. The Andrews family returned to Portsmouth while Virginia was in high school.
While a teenager, Virginia suffered a tragic accident, falling dow
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Jennifer Ann "Jenn" McAllister is an American actress, author, and YouTuber.
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Ashley Blooms
Ashley Blooms is the author of Every Bone a Prayer, which was long-listed for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize and which NPR said “bears within its pages striking beauty and strangeness in equal measure.” Her second novel, Where I Can’t Follow, will be published in February 2022.
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Born and raised in Cutshin, Kentucky, Blooms received her MFA as a John and Renee Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi. Her short stories have appeared in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons, among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Oxford American. She’s been awarded scholarships from the Clarion Writer’s Workshop and Appalachian Writer’s Workshop, served as fiction editor for the Yalobusha Review, -
Rob Thomas
Robert James "Rob" Thomas is an American author, producer, and screenwriter, best known as the author of the 1996 novel Rats Saw God, creator of the critically acclaimed television series Veronica Mars and co-creator of 90210 and Party Down.
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Eva Yin
Eva Yin is a Chinese American writer, author, and visual artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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She is a recovered heroin addict and has been clean for more than seven years. Eva is a practicing Buddhist and and has earned two undergraduate degrees in anthropology and art.
She has published her memoir with the hope that others will read her story and become inspired to leave their addictions behind them, as she has. -
Estelle Getty
Estelle Getty was an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning actress (theatre and screen). She was best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo in the sitcom The Golden Girls. In her later years, she retired from acting and was battling Lewy Body dementia.
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In 1988 she wrote her autobiography, with Steve Delsohn, titled If I Knew Then, What I Know Now. . . So What? -
Gabriela Lee
Wannabe writer, amateur fangirl, bibliophile, geek. Currently a wandering academic.
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Pat Hancock
Pat Hancock’s five Haunted Canada books combine spooky stories and eerie illustrations with interesting facts about Canadian history. Readers will be thrilled and chilled by her hair-raising stories! Haunted Canada: True Ghost Stories garnered the Saskatchewan Silver Willow Award in 2004. A longtime collector of funny but true facts about Canada, Pat is also well-known for her three collections of Crazy Canadian Trivia books.
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Pat spent much of her life teaching science and English, until she retired and became a full-time parent. She says that reading to her three children sparked her interest in writing. She continues to teach English courses at the University of Toronto and Ryerson, and also leads writing workshops. -
Leif Garrett
Leif Garrett is an American singer, actor, and television personality. He worked as a child actor then in the 1970s became famous as a teen idol.
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Michael Mann
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
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Michael Mann is a British-born professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Visiting Research Professor at Queen's University Belfast. Mann holds dual British and United States citizenships. He received his B.A. in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1963 and his D.Phil. in Sociology from the same institution in 1971. Mann is currently visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge.
Mann has been a professor of Sociology at UCLA since 1987; he was reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1977 to 1987. Mann was also a member of the Advisory Editors Council of the Social Evoluti -
Tish Cohen
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
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Anais Nin quote from Oprah's website inspired Tish Cohen to write her first adult novel.
Tish Cohen is the author of TOWN HOUSE, a 2008 finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Best First Book Award (Canada and Caribbean region), and in development as a feature film with Fox 2000. Ridley Scott’s Scott Free is producing and John Carney, the award-winning, critically acclaimed director of ONCE is directing. TOWN HOUSE was released to massive media interest in Canada and has been published in Italy and will soon be released in Germany.
Cohen has also written the middle-grade novels THE INVISIBLE RULES OF ZOE LAMA, and its sequel THE -
Lorena Amkie
Lorena Amkie aprendió a escribir con tan sólo cinco años, y desde ese momento nunca ha dejado de hacerlo. De adolescente, su personalidad más bien introvertida hizo que creciera su gusto por lo oscuro, los chicos malos, los escritos cargados de humor negro, la violencia y una eterna, si bien torturada, búsqueda por el amor verdadero.
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Gothic Doll, su primera novela, lleva más de 20.000 ejemplares vendidos y ha creado una gran comunidad de fans. Lorena ya está preparando la segunda parte de esta exitosa novela gótica y de vampiros. -
Deborah Crossland
Deborah Crossland (she/her) teaches English and mythology at her local community college and writes myth-based, contemporary novels with a feminist bent for young adults. She is passionate about making education accessible for everyone and makes sure her students pay nothing out of pocket. She lives in Northern California with her husband and her daughter's very spoiled, retired service dog.
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Miguel Aguerralde
Miguel Aguerralde nació en Madrid a finales de los setenta y se crió buceando en lecturas, series y cine de género de todas las épocas. Fascinado por el misterio y por zambullir al lector en truculentos bosques de emociones, disfruta con la escritura de inquietantes cuentos y novelas de suspense. Todavía en edad escolar se trasladó con su familia a Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, escenario habitual de sus textos, donde creció y desarrolló su pasión por la escritura. Actualmente reside en Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, donde desarrolla su labor docente en un colegio de Primaria, aunque es frecuente encontrarle asistiendo a eventos literarios por toda la geografía española.
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Desde 2009 ha participado en un buen número de antologías de relatos y publicado -
Richard E. Cytowic
Richard E. Cytowic, MD, MFA is a neurologist best know for bringing synesthesia back into the scientific mainstream in 1980. The trait of crossed senses is now seen as important to understanding how brains perceive.
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Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia (with David Eagleman) won the 2011 Montaigne Medal.
Cytowic also writes non-fiction and fiction, and received his MFA in creative writing from American University. The Pulitzer nominee's work has appeared in The Washingtonian, New Scientist, and the New York Times Magazine.
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Marti Leimbach
I write contemporary fiction for young adults and adults, though right now I'm concentrating on my YA thriller series, kicking off with Dragonfly Girl published by Harper Collins Feb '21.
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I'm on Goodreads, but if you have questions you can also find me on Twitter https://twitter.com/MartiLeimbach
or on Instagram: marti.leimbach
In addition to all things literary, I'm interested in neurodiversity, young inventors, and science.
I teach on the Masters Programme in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford as a fiction tutor. My students are amazing!
When I'm not writing or teaching or reading, I'm looking after a small flock of Ryleand sheep, walking may Shetland sheepdog or hanging out with the fancy rats I breed as part of the National Fancy R -
Karen Hall
In her career as writer, producer and creative consultant, Karen Hall has worked on numerous series, including M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues, Moonlighting, Northern Exposure, Judging Amy and The Good Wife. She has received seven Emmy Award nominations, as well as the Humanitas Prize, the Women in Film Luminas Award, and the Writers Guild of America Award. Her novel, Dark Debts, was a Book of the Month Club main selection when first published in 1996 and has been translated into French, German, and Japanese. She and her husband own Black Bear Books, an independent bookstore in Boone, North Carolina. - See more at: http://authors.simonandschuster.com/K...
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Tatiana Ryckman
Tatiana Ryckman is the author of two chapbooks of prose, Twenty-Something and VHS and Why it's Hard to Live. She is Assistant Editor at sunnyoutside press and leads Creative Writing workshops through The University of Texas at Austin.
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Diane Rinella
Enjoying San Francisco as a backdrop, the ghosts in USA Today Bestselling Author Diane Rinella’s 150-year old Victorian home augment the chorus in her head. With insomnia as their catalyst, these voices have become multifarious characters that haunt her well into the sun’s crowning hours, refusing to let go until they have manipulated her into succumbing to their whims. Her experiences as an actress, business owner, artisan cake designer, software project manager, Internet radio disc jockey, vintage rock n’ roll journalist/fan girl, and lover of dark and quirky personalities influence her idiosyncratic writing.
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Robert E. Sherwood
Robert Emmet Sherwood was an American playwright, editor, and screenwriter.
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Philip Miller
This is the disambiguation profile for otherwise undifferentiated authors publishing as Philip Miller.
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Huw Collingbourne
Huw Collingbourne is a writer, programming instructor and software developer. He is the author of a number of fiction and factual books. His novels include the Kill Job series (gritty 1960s Cold War and crime) The Exodus Plague post-apocalyptic thrillers and The 1980s Murder Mysteries (crime capers).
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In the 1980s Huw was a pop music journalist and he interviewed many of the 'New Romantic' stars such as Boy George, Adam Ant, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and Depeche Mode. In the 1990s he published the 'adult humour' magazine, 18 Rated, which was immediately banned by all leading UK newsagents (who obviously failed to see the joke).
Huw's programming books including The Little Book Of C, The Little Book Of Pointers, The Little Book of Recursion,