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Ally Carter
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Ann Rinaldi
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic.
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Dallas Schulze
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Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. A typical example of Simmons' intermingling of genres is Song of Kali (1985), winner of the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. Source: Dan Simmons on Wikipedia.
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David Drake
The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn’t run fast enough to get away. Dave returned to become Chapel Hill’s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences. Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader’s hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background. Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina. http://david-drake.com/2011/biographies/
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Diane Duane
Diane Duane (born May 18, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author, long based in Ireland. Her works include the Young Wizards young adult fantasy series and the Rihannsu Star Trek novels.
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Dr. Alireza Norouzi
Dr. Alireza Norouzi was born on October 5, 1978 in Tehran, Iran. He is an Iranian author in the Mine and Civil Engineering, and Psychology fields. Norouzi's writing career began in 2000. He published more than 88 scientific books each of 2, 3, 4 volumes (101 books). His books were translated into 8 languages such as German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, & Persian. Most of his books published 8th editions. Alireza Norouzi worked with a large number of celebrated researchers, such as Mahmoud Borghei, Sirous Zareian, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Richard Lazarus and T. Berry Brazelton, and Iranian researchers, such as Saeed Shamloo, Haraton Davidian, Parirokh Dadsetan, Abbasgholi Daneshvar, Gholamreza Sarabi, Aliakbar Shoarinejad, Mirtaghi Garousi Farshi, Seyed Amir Mirbagheri, Reza Shapurian, Siavash Goudarzvand Chegini, Morteza Nesfat, Karim Taie, Nastaran Nafisi-Varcheh, Abolghasem Ghasemi, Alireza Mobaraki, Mahmoud Matin, Ahmad Siadati, Heidarali Hooman, and Mahmoud Mansour. Selected honoraria: *2016 Superior Scholars Award of Tehran Municipality Cultural and Social Studies Affairs Department, December 2016 *Ministry of Education Award, January 2016 *24th Book and Reading Week of Islamic Republic of Iran 2016, November 2016 *Cognitive Sciences and Technologies Council Award, March 2016 *3rd Pajhwak Mahale Festival 2014, March 2015 *23rd Book and Reading Week of Islamic Republic of Iran 2015 *3rd Tasnim Festival, January 2015 *2nd Pajhwak Mahale Festival 2014, March 2014 *1st Pajhwak Mahale Festival 2013, March 2013 *2nd Shamseh Festival, March 2013 *26th Islamic Republic of Iran's Seasonal Book Award (Summer Season) 2013 *21st Islamic Republic of Iran's Seasonal Book Award (Spring Season) 2012 *19th Book and Reading Week of Islamic Republic of Iran 2011 *15th Islamic Republic of Iran's Seasonal Book Award (Winter Season) 2010 *18th Book and Reading Week of Islamic Republic of Iran 2010 *5th Islamic Republic of Iran's First Step Book Award 2009 *17th Book and Reading Week of Islamic Republic of Iran 2009 *8th Islamic Republic of Iran's Seasonal Book Award (Winter Season) 2009 *The Institute for Cognitive Science Studies (ICSS) Award, November 2008 *Iran's public libraries institute Award, 2008 *4th Islamic Republic of Iran's Seasonal Book Award (Winter Season) 2008 *16th Book and Reading Week of Islamic Republic of Iran 2008 *3rd Islamic Republic of Iran's Seasonal Book Award (Autumn Season) 2007 *15th Book and Reading Week of Islamic Republic of Iran 2007 *13th Book and Reading Week of Islamic Republic of Iran 2005 *12th Book and Reading Week of Islamic Republic of Iran 2004
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Elizabeth Ashton
Elizabeth Ashton was a British writer of romance novels to Mills & Boon from 1969 to 1990.
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Emily Hendrickson
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher
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Hamideh Jahangiri
Dr. Hamideh Jahangiri was born on August 13, 1981 in Isfahan, Iran. She is an Iranian author in the psychology and medicine fields. Jahangiri's writing career began in 2001. She published more than 54 scientific books each of 2, 3, 4 or 30 volumes (272 books). Her books were translated into 8 languages such as German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, & Persian. Most of her books published 8th editions. Hamideh Jahangiri worked with a large number of celebrated researchers, such as Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Richard Lazarus and T. Berry Brazelton, Ian Stevenson, Donald R. Peterson, Javad Nurbakhsh, Murray Bowen, and Iranian researchers, such as Abbas Shafiee, Levon Davidian, Saeed Shamloo, Haraton Davidian, Parirokh Dadsetan, Reza Zamani, Mahmoud Mansour, Aliakbar Shoarinejad, Heidarali Hooman, Mirtaghi Garousi Farshi, Seyed Amir Mirbagheri, Reza Shapurian, Siavash Goudarzvand Chegini, Morteza Nesfat, Gholamreza Sarabi, Abolghasem Ghasemi, Alireza Mobaraki, Karim Taie, Nastaran Nafisi-Varcheh, Mahmoud Matin, Bagher Hejazi, Mehdi Khanbani, Kazem Amoli, Ahmad Siadati, and Abbasgholi Daneshvar. Selected honoraria: *Cognitive Sciences and Technologies Council Award, March 2016 *3rd Pajhwak Mahale Festival 2014, March 2015 *3rd Tasnim Festival, January 2015 *2nd Pajhwak Mahale Festival 2014, March 2014 *1st Pajhwak Mahale Festival 2013, March 2013 *2nd Shamseh Festival, March 2013 *26th Islamic Republic of Iran's Seasonal Book Award 2013 *21st Islamic Republic of Iran's Seasonal Book Award 2012 *15th Islamic Republic of Iran's Seasonal Book Award 2010 *5th Islamic Republic of Iran's First Step Book Award 2009 *The Institute for Cognitive Science Studies (ICSS) Award, November 2008 *Iran's public libraries institute Award, 2008 *1st Islamic Republic of Iran's Seasonal Book Award 2007
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Herman Parish
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Isabel Allende
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (Lima, Perú; 2 de agosto de 1942) es una escritora chilena con nacionalidad estadounidense, de ascendencia hispano-portuguesa y nacida en Perú. Desde 2004 es miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras. Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura de su país en 2010. La venta total de sus libros alcanza 73 millones de ejemplares y sus obras han sido traducidas a 42 idiomas. Es considerada como la escritora viva más leída del mundo de la lengua española. Sobrina y ahijada del expresidente chileno Salvador Allende (1970 - 1973), comenzó su carrera literaria como periodista. Tras el la muerte de su tío en el golpe militar de Chile en 1973 y el derrocamiento del gobierno de coalición, Isabel Allende abandonó Chile y se refugió en Venezuela. Su primera novela, La casa de los espíritus (1985), que surgió directamente de su exilio, se convirtió en un éxito de ventas y crítica mundial. A menudo entreteje elementos de mito y realismo, o lo que se conoce como "realismo mágico". Sus novelas a veces se basan en su propia infancia y experiencias vitales. Isabel Allende was born on 2 August 2 1942 in Lima, Peru. The niece and goddaughter of Salvador Allende, the former president of Chile from 1970 to 1973, she started her writing career as a journalist. Several months after her uncle's assassination and the overthrow of Chile's coalition government in 1973, Allende left Chile and found refuge in Venezuela. Her first novel, The House of the Spirits (1985), which arose directly out of her exile, became a worldwide bestseller and critical success. She often weaves together elements of myth and realism, or what is known as "magic realist." Her novels are sometimes based on her own childhood and life experiences. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author."
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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano. Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento. I numerosi campi d'interesse toccati dal suo percorso letterario sono meditati e raccontati attraverso capolavori quali la trilogia de I nostri antenati, Marcovaldo, Le cosmicomiche, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore, uniti dal filo conduttore della riflessione sulla storia e la società contemporanea. Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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James Thurber
The author of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and the creator of numerous New Yorker magazine cover cartoons, was born in Columbus, Ohio on December, 8, 1894. One of the foremost American humorists of the 20th century, his inimitable wit and pithy prose spanned a breadth of genres, including short stories, modern commentary, fiction, children's fantasy and letters. Thurber's father, Charles, was a civil clerk, and his mother, Mame, was an eccentric woman who would influence many of her son's stories. Thurber had two brothers, William and Robert. One day while playing "William Tell" with them as youngsters, Thurber lost the sight in one eye when an arrow pierced it. Ultimately, he would go blind in both eyes, but that never stopped him from writing or drawing. Thurber CarnivalFrom 1913-1917, Thurber attended the Ohio State University where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. It was at this time that the Thurbers rented the house at 77 Jefferson Avenue, which became Thurber House in 1984. Due to his eye injury, Thurber was not able to complete a compulsory ROTC course so OSU would not let him graduate, although they did give him an honorary degree later. Thurber launched his professional writing career as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch in 1920. He began writing for the New Yorker in 1927 after friend E.B. White (Charlotte's Web) got him a job at the magazine. Thurber started as an editor for the magazine but quickly became a writer. His career as a cartoonist began in 1930, when White dug some of Thurber's drawings out of the trash and submitted them to be published in the New Yorker. Thurber wrote nearly forty books and won a Tony Award for his popular Broadway play, A Thurber Carnival, in which he often starred as himself. Thurber died of complications from pneumonia on November 2, 1961. --Thurberhouse.org
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Jean Fritz
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard was born and raised in the International Settlement in Shanghai, China to a chemist. In 1943 the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and Ballard's family was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, where they were interned for two years until the end of World War II. In 1946, Ballard went to England with his mother and sister, and stayed on in England after his mother and sister returned to China to rejoin his father. In 1949 he went to King's College, Cambridge to study medicine, but he began writing fiction and abandoned medicine in 1952 to pursue writing. In 1953 he joined the Air Force and was sent to the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to train. There he discovered science fiction in and he began to write science fiction. He left the RAF in 1954 and returned to England. In 1956 he published his science fiction story. In 1960 he committed to writing full-time.
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. Consequently he is often referred to as the "Father of science fiction", along with H. G. Wells. (Source.) Also as of 2023, Jules Verne is regarded as the second most translated author in the world. (Source.)
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Karin Slaughter
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Kathryn Kenny
Kathryn Kenny is a pseudonym used for various authors to wrote the Trixie Belden Series, created by Julie Campbell.
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Kathy Reichs
Dr. Kathleen Joan Reichs (PhD) (née Toelle, born July 7, 1948) is an American crime writer, academic and forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only fifty forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. A professor of anthropology at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dr. Reichs is a native of Chicago, where she received her Ph.D. at Northwestern. She now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent expert witness in criminal trials. She is well known for inspiring the television series Bones. Fiction In addition to technical books, as of January 2019, Reichs has written 23 novels, which have been translated into 30 languages. 20 of those novels constitute the "Temperance Brennan" series. Her first novel, Déjà Dead, won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. The fictional heroine in her novels, Temperance "Tempe" Brennan, is also a forensic anthropologist. Her lifestyle closely mimics that of her creator,with Reichs stating that Brennan and she "have the same CV" and that "Some of Tempe's personality traits are also mine," but there are differences in their personal lives, such as the character's alcoholism. A good portion of the novels are based on real life science, and Reichs has stated that she is "fastidiously conscientious about getting the science right." She has used experience from her career in her novels and said about Déjà Dead that "Everything I describe in the book, I actually did." In the novel Grave Secrets, she uses her experience from her visit to Guatemala. She has also co-written (with her son Brendan) the young adult novels series named Virals, centered on Tempe's great-niece, Tory Brennan, and a pack of her friends, Ben, Hiram, Shelton, and wolfdog Cooper. A stand-alone novel, Two Nights, published July 11, 2017, features Sunday Night, a tough-talking, scarred heroine.
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Madeline Baker
Madeline Ruth was born on 1963 in California, where she raised. She married her high school sweetheart and they have three sons, all handsome enough to be cover models. Growing up, her favorite pastimes were going to the movies and going horseback riding on Saturday mornings at Griffith Park. Madeline has always been "horse happy." A horse was the one thing she asked for on every birthday and every Christmas. Many years later, that dream came true when she bought an Appaloosa mare named Candy—because she was so sweet. Madeline loves animals. Over the years, she's had numerous dogs, cats, fish, mice, hamsters, turtles and birds, and her horse, of course. The most exotic pet was a crocodile that belonged to one of her sons. Currently, she has a terribly spoiled Pomeranian named Teddi, six goldfish, a catfish, and a betta. When she's not writing, Madeline enjoys going to movies and the theater. Her favorite plays are The Phantom of the Opera, The Scarlet Pimpernel and her all-time fave, Beauty and the Beast. She also loves reading, going to lunch with her best friend, collecting Star Wars, The Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast memorabilia, and playing with the most beautiful, adorable, brilliant grandkids in the world. Madeline started writing when her children were still at home, and she wrote for several years, finding time to write after her children were in bed and her husband was at work. In true cliché fashion, she wrote the books and put them under the bed, never telling anyone what she was doing, until one day she let a friend read one. Encouraged by her friend's comments, and armed with a copy of Writer's Market supplied by said friend, Madeline began sending out query letters. After six years and 31 rejections, Leisure Books bought Reckless Heart, and she's been writing ever since. After writing several Westerns, Madeline decided to try her hand at something else and wrote her first vampire romance. It was a short story titled "Masquerade" for an anthology. She loved writing that so much that she wrote her first full-length vampire romance, Embrace the Night, and thus Amanda Ashley was born. One of her dreams had been to write for Harlequin, and she accomplished that in 2003 with the publication of her Silhouette Romance novel, Dude Ranch Bride. Madeline loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her online at DarkWritr@aol.com or by mail at PO Box 1703, Whittier, CA 90609-1703.
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Naomi Novik
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Patricia Veryan
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Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novel — especially the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for — and reworking of — the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Philip José Farmer is also well known for remixing classic fictional characters, worlds, and both real and fake authors. This is epitomized with his Wold Newton family group of books that tie all classic fictional characters together as real people and blood relatives resulting from an alien conspiracy; his works such as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life make Farmer the ultimate grandfather of the modern literary mashup. - Wikipedia
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Rebecca Stratton
Rebecca Stratton has various jobs through the years, before she got a job in an office which enabled her to save up enough money to quit and start writing full time at the age of 45. Her first attempt at a romance novel was accepted by Mills and Boon and she was on her way under the pseudonym of Lucy Gillen in 1969, and later under her real name until 1982.
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Richard Laymon
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Time-Life Books
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Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.
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Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro (/mʌnˈroʊ/, née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; born 10 July 1931) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."
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Allison Leigh
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 25 November 1951 in Cartagena) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE and was a war correspondent for 21 years (1973–1994). His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was released in 1986. He is well known outside Spain for his "Alatriste" series of novels. He is now a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, a position he has held since 12 June 2003. Source: Arturo Pérez-Reverte on Wikipedia.
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Barbara Michaels
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Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker is a fictional character used in advertising campaigns for food and recipes. The character was created by General Mills (then the Washburn-Crosby Company) in 1921 to give a personalized response to consumer product questions.
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Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career, and she published some of her early stories in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, and she continued writing successfull gothic novels in addition to biographies and other non-fiction books. Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of her novels and short stories, and adapted some of these to films: Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). Other of her works adapted were Frenchman's Creek (1942), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1951), and "Don't Look Now" (1973). She was named a Dame of the British Empire. In 1932, she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, with whom she had three children, Tessa, Flavia and Christian. Her husband died in 1965, and she passed away on 19 April 1989 in Fowey, Cornwall. After her death, it was revealed that she was bisexual.
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Elle Kennedy
Elle Kennedy grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, and holds a BA in English from York University. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be a writer and actively began pursuing that dream when she was a teenager. Elle is the author of more than fifty contemporary fiction and romance novels, published by a variety of major houses. Her work includes the Off-Campus series, the global phenomenon which has captivated millions of readers around the world. (<a href="https://www.ellekennedy.com/about" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Faye Kellerman
American writer of mystery novels
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Freida McFadden
Freida McFadden is a physician who has penned multiple bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. Freida’s work has been selected as one of Amazon Editors’ best books of the year, she is the winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for best paperback, and she is a Goodreads Choice Award winner. Her novels have been translated into more than 45 languages. Freida lives with her family and cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe. (<a href="https://www.freidamcfadden.com/about/">Source</a>)
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Gabrielle Charbonnet
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Gail Herman
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Gene Luen Yang
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Janet Quin-Harkin
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John Saul
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Linda Goodnight
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Margaret Moore
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Michael Bond
Michael Bond, OBE, (born in Newbury, Berkshire) is an English author, most celebrated for his Paddington Bear series of books. Bond began writing in 1945 and sold his first short story to the magazine London Opinion. In 1958, after producing a number of plays and short stories and while working as a BBC television cameraman (where he worked filming Blue Peter for a time), his first book, A Bear Called Paddington, was published. This was the start of Bond's most famous series of books, telling tales of a bear from "Darkest Peru", whose Aunt Lucy sends him to England, carrying a jar of marmalade. The Brown family found the bear at Paddington Station, and adopted him, naming the bear after the station. By 1967, Bond was able to give up his BBC job to work full-time as a writer. Paddington's adventures have been published in nearly twenty countries, and has inspired pop bands, race horses, plays, hot air balloons and a TV series. Bond stated in December 2007 that he did not plan to continue the adventures of Paddington Bear in further volumes. (Source)
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Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck had always lived in China except for the time she spent in the United States when she was being educated. She studied at Randolph-Macon College and at Cornell University. She taught at the University of Nanking and at the Government University in Nanking under two national regimes. She lived in Nanking during the 1930's. The Good Earth was Mrs. Buck's second published novel. East Wind: West Wind appeared under the John Day imprint in 1930. She contributed articles and stories to various magazines, among them The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and Asia.
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