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Cynthia Voigt
Cynthia Voigt is an American author of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse.
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David Nel·lo
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Debra Webb
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Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. Four of his novels were adapted into award-wining films of the same names: Mystic River (2003), Shutter Island (2010), and Gone Baby Gone (2007) and Live by Night (2016). --Wikipedia
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Donna Kauffman
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Doreen Virtue
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E. F. Benson
Edward Frederic Benson was a prolific English author
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Elaine Barbieri
Elaine Barbieri is the author of more than 40 novels. She has also written under the name Elaine Rome.
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Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
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Elizabeth Graham
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Emma Donoghue
Grew up in Ireland, 20s in England doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature, since then in Canada. Best known for my novel, film and play ROOM, also other contemporary and historical novels and short stories, non-fiction, theatre and middle-grade novels.
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Eric Frank Russell
Eric Frank Russell (1905–1978) was a prominent British science fiction author known for his witty, often satirical, and anti-authoritarian stories published largely in American pulp magazines. A key figure in the 1950s, he is best known for novels Wasp and Sinister Barrier, and for winning the 1955 Hugo Award for his short story "Allamagoosa".
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Euripides
Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias. Eighteen or nineteen of Euripides' plays have survived complete. There has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds and ignoring classical evidence that the play was his.1 Fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, because of the unique nature of the Euripidean manuscript tradition. (Source.)
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Frank Asch
American children's book writer, best known for his Moonbear picture books.
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Frank E. Peretti
Frank Edward Peretti is a New York Times best-selling author of Christian fiction, whose novels primarily focus on the supernatural. To date, his works have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Peretti is best known for his novels This Present Darkness (1986) and Piercing the Darkness (1989). Peretti has held ministry credentials with the Assemblies of God, and formerly played the banjo in a bluegrass band called Northern Cross. He now lives in Coeur d'Alene Idaho with his wife, Barbara. (Wikipedia) Photo: Russ Harrington
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Franklyn M. Branley
Franklyn Mansfield Branley was born in New Rochelle, New York, the child of an insurance salesman and his wife. While he was still a toddler, Branley's mother died of influenza, and he and his two brothers went to live with a farm family near Newburgh, New York. His father visited them on the weekends. Branley contracted polio at a young age. After graduating from the New Paltz Normal School (now SUNY), he married Margaret Lemon, who became a grade school teacher. He became a science teacher educator at the New Jersey State Teachers College. In 1956, he joined the American Museum-Hayden Planetarium to run the Planetariums education program. While working there, he also earned a Masters degree from New York University, followed by an Ed.D. from Columbia Teachers College. In 1968, he became the chairman of the Hayden Planetarium, where he served until his retirement in 1972. Over the course of his career, Branley was a prolific writer, specializing in books that make science accessible to grade-school children. He wrote over 200 books.
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Fredrik Backman
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Gardner R. Dozois
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Grace Maccarone
Grace Maccarone is a children’s book editor and the author of many books for young readers, including Miss Lina’s Ballerinas, illustrated by Christine Davenier, and the First Grade Friends series, illustrated by Betsy Lewin. She lives in Westchester, New York.
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Greg Rucka
Gregory Rucka (born November 29, 1969) is an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and novelist. He is known for his work on well-known comics such as Action Comics, Batwoman, Detective Comics, the DC Comics miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for, as well as for creating the Image Comics series Lazarus and novels such as his Atticus Kodiak series. He also wrote the screenplay to the 2020 film The Old Guard, based on his comics series of the same name.
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Henry Cloud
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Hunter S. Thompson
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Jane Aiken Hodge
Jane Aiken Hodge was an American-born British writer. Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer Jessie McDonald. Jane Hodge was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye, East Sussex where her younger sister, Joan, who would become a novelist and a children’s writer, was born. Their parents’ marriage was dissolved in 1929. From 1935, Jane Hodge read English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and in 1938 she took a second degree in English at Radcliffe College, USA, her mother’s alma mater. She was a civil servant for a time, and also worked for Time Magazine, before returning to the UK in 1947. Her works of fiction include historical novels and contemporary detective novels. In 1972 she renounced her United States citizenship and became a British subject. For many years a believer in the right of people to end their own lives, Hodge chose to end her own life by means of an overdose in June 2009.
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Jane B. Mason
Jane Mason is the author of a number of Star Wars children's books and an editor of two books from Dorling Kindersley.
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Jennifer L. Holm
American children's writer
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Jerry Pournelle
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John Burningham
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Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Anthony Stroud (born 27 October 1970) is a British writer of fantasy fiction, best known for the Bartimaeus young adult sequence and Lockwood & Co. children's series. His books are typically set in an alternative history London with fantasy elements, and have received note for his satire, and use of magic to reflect themes of class struggle. The Bartimaeus sequence is the recipient of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards. Stroud's works have also been featured on ALA Notable lists of books for children and young adults.
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Joseph Campbell
"Follow your bliss." An American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion.
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Joy Cowley
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Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (Ixelles, 26 de agosto de 1914-París, 12 de febrero de 1984) fue un escritor, poeta y profesor argentino. También trabajó como traductor, oficio que desempeñó para la Unesco y varias editoriales. En 1981, sin renunciar a su nacionalidad argentina, optó por la francesa en protesta contra la dictadura militar en su país, que prohibió sus libros y que él denunció a la prensa internacional desde su residencia en París. Se lo considera uno de los autores más innovadores y originales de su tiempo, maestro del relato corto, la prosa poética y la narración breve en general, y creador de importantes novelas, en la cual destaca Rayuela, que inauguraron una nueva forma de hacer literatura en el mundo hispano. Junto a Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa y Carlos Fuentes, fue uno de los exponentes centrales del boom latinoamericano. Fuente: Wikipedia Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar
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Katee Robert
Katee Robert (she/they) is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of spicy romance. Entertainment Weekly calls their writing “unspeakably hot.” Their books have sold over two million copies. They live in the Pacific Northwest with their husband, children, a cat who thinks he’s a dog, and two Great Danes who think they’re lap dogs. Kat Taylor is Katee Robert's pen name. In her books, you'll find no happily ever afters, but you will find many, many happy endings. (<a href="https://www.kateerobert.com/">source</a>)
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Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Kathleen Erin Hogg was born on June 3, 1939 in Alexandria, Louisiana, USA. She was the youngest of eight children of Charles Wingrove Hogg, a disabled World War I veteran, and his wife, Gladys Coker. As a child, she devoured fairy tales, later she relished creating her own stories, and by age six was telling herself stories at night to help fall asleep. When she was only twelve, her father died suddenly, leaving her to be raised by her mother and older sisters. Kathleen would later remark that, "every single one of us had minds of our own even then; I was no exception. I suppose that carried over into my creations of heroines who weren't weak-willed." At the age of sixteen, Kathleen met twenty-one years old U.S. Air Force Second Lieutenant Ross Eugene Woodiwiss at a dance for servicemen. They eloped a year later, and married on July 20, 1956. She continued in the school locally and graduated in 1957. In 1960, they had their first son Sean Alan, who was born in Alexandria. Her husband's military career led them to live in Japan, where they had their second and middle son, Dorren James in Tachikawa on August 8, 1962. Kathleen worked part-time as a fashion model for an American-owned modeling agency. She enjoyed fashion modeling, and later designing and creating many of her own gowns and costumes for numerous officer’s club functions that she attended with her husband. After three and a half years in Japan, the family moved to Topeka, Kansas. During these years, she attempted to begin a novel several times, but each time stopped in frustration at the slow pace of writing a novel longhand. In 1968, finally the family instaled in Minnesota, where they had a large home on 55 acres (220,000 m2). They had their three and late son Heath Alexander, on 1970 in Minneapolis. Kathleen was an accomplished horse rider, who was the first rider/driver to have won both Amateur Pleasure Grand Championships with the same horse in the history of the Morgan Grand National Horse Show. After buying her husband an electric typewriter for a Christmas present, she appropriated the machine to begin her novel in earnest. Kathleen's first manuscript, was rejected by agents and hardcover publishers as being too long at 600 pages. Rather than follow the advice of the rejection letters and rewrite the novel, she instead submitted it to paperback publishers. The first publisher on her list, Avon, quickly purchased the novel. Legendary editor Nancy Coffey provided a $1500 advance and arranged for an initial 500,000 print run. "The Flame and the Flower" was revolutionary, featuring an epic historical romance with a strong heroine and actual sex scenes. This novel, published in 1972, sold over 2.3 million copies in its first four years of publication and is credited with spawning the modern romance genre, becoming the first romance novel "to follow the principals into the bedroom." The success of this novel prompted a new style of writing romance, concentrating primarily on historical fiction tracking the monogamous relationship between helpless heroines and the hero who rescued her, even if he had been the one to place her in danger. Kathleen sayd whose heroines always stay faithful to their seducers: "We like to fantasize about what we believe in, and I do believe in commitment." The romance novels which followed in her example featured longer plots, more controversial situations and characters, and more intimate and steamy sex scenes. Kathleen published only twelve romance novels and two novellas in thirty-three years, but her books are best-sellers with over thirty-six million copies in print. She often took four to five years to write a single novel. In some cases, she attributed the lag in publication time to personal and health issues, while in others she confessed to having suffered burnout and needing a rest to recover her interest in writing. Kathleen had a direct impact on the career of fellow novelist LaVyrle Spencer. Soon after finding her own success, she read a manuscript written by LaVyrle, who had yet to earn a publishing contract. Kathleen promptly mailed LaVyrle's novel to her own editor at Avon, and the editor purchased the novel, The Fulfillment. In addition, many modern romance novelists cite Kathleen E. Woodiwiss's books as their inspiration to write, like Virginia Henley, Betina Krahn, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kate Hoffmann and Julia Quinn. After her husband's death in 1996, Kathleen moved back to Louisiana, visiting frecuently her family in Minessota. On June 17, 2007, her son Dorren James Woodiwiss died unexpectedly, few days before her, who died at 68, on July 6, 2007 after a long and courageous battle with cancer at Fairview Northland Regional Hospital in Princeton.
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Kathleen O'Brien
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Laura Lee Guhrke
Laura Lee Guhrke spent seven years in advertising, had a successful catering business, and managed a construction company before she decided writing was more fun. From the publication of her first historical romance, Laura has received numerous honors and critical acclaim for her novels and her writing style, and her books have been seen on both the USA Today and New York Times Bestseller Lists. In addition, Laura has been honored with the most prestigious award of romance fiction, the Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and she has been a RITA finalist five times. Among her publishing credits are eighteen historical romances, including her latest for Avon Books, Trouble at the Wedding, the third book in her Abandoned at the Altar series. Laura is currently hard at work on her latest historical romance, but when she’s not writing, she can be found skiing the slopes, wakeboarding across the lakes, and fly fishing the streams of her beautiful home state of Idaho.
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Leigh Greenwood
Okay, let's get the hard stuff out of the way right up front. Leigh is a man! I know men aren't supposed to write romance, but I do and I don't intend to quit. It's fun. If you're still mad, you can blame it on my wife. I wouldn't have known what romance was if, after I got married in 1972, romances hadn't started collecting all over the house. They were everywhere I looked, in the den, on the kitchen table, in the living room, stacked along one whole wall in the bedroom, even in the bathroom. When my wife wasn't cooking or taking care of the children, she was reading a romance. I admit I was a little supercilious about her choice of reading material. After all, I was reading Dickens, Hemingway, Austen, the classics! I started calling them her "sin, lust, and passion" books. I said it so often my daughter started calling them Mommy's "celeste" passion books. I thought it was funny. My wife didn't. One day, after what I’m certain was a typically condescending remark (you have to understand I'd never read a romance, just looked at the covers and made a snap judgment), she threw a book at me and told me to read it or shut up. Being an obedient husband (my wife's expletive deleted!), I read the book. It was Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades. I loved it. To this day it's one of my favorite books. Being thoroughly hooked, I searched new and used bookstores until I'd collected every book Georgette Heyer ever wrote. After reading them all several times, I asked my wife to suggest some other books. Since I have a minor in history, she started me on a diet of the icons of early historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Rosemary Rogers, Jennifer Blake, Bertrice Small, and Johanna Lindsey. By now I was completely addicted. Somewhere along the line, I read that women could make decent money (more than I could as a music teacher) writing historicals, so I tried to get my wife to write one. She told me she couldn't write, that I ought to write one. I said I couldn't think of a plot. This went back and forth for some time until I said if she'd give me a plot, I'd write a book. She said, "I've lost everything." It wasn't a plot, but it must have been enough. I sat down and started writing. 889 pages later, I had finished my first romance. A badly overwritten romance, but a book nonetheless. I didn't know much about writing, and nothing at all about the romance market, so I had to write two more books and join Romance Writers of America before I knew enough to sell my first book. Wyoming Wildfire was published by Zebra in 1987. Since then I’ve written 45 more books and four novellas. Unfortunately, after thirty-six years of marriage, my wife and I divorced. Even though it was amicable, it has been a difficult adjustment. House-hunting and moving from a home I’d occupied for twenty-seven years was no fun, but that’s behind me. My ex-wife is an excellent cook so I gave up cooking once we were married. Now I find that not only do I enjoy it, I’m good at it. In fact, I find myself standing over a simmering sauce or making soup to freeze when I should be writing. I’ve also come to a greater appreciation of what it takes to prepare tasty and interesting meals day after day, but you’re not likely to see any of that in my books. I haven’t written much about cooking since I got letters from readers after Wyoming Wildfire came out complaining that the heroine spent too much time in the kitchen. I recently celebrated my 70th birthday so I call writing my mid-life crisis career. I have a BA in Voice and an MA in Musicology from the University of North Carolina. I taught music in schools and/or was an organist/choir director in churches for thirty-two years before retiring to write full time. I have three grown children (notice I didn't say mature or responsible!) who are momentarily occupying distant parts of these United States. I enjoy gardening and singing in both church and community choirs. I have just welcomed a beautiful grandson, and a granddaughter is on the way. Now if I can just live long enough to tell them stories about their parents. (From the Author's website.)
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Lois Gladys Leppard
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Lynne Reid Banks
Lynne Reid Banks was born in London, the only child of James and Muriel Reid Banks. During World War II she was evacuated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, but she returned as soon as the war was over. She was educated at St Teresa's School in Surrey. She became an actress, and also worked as a television journalist. In 1960 she publisher her first book, The L-Shaped Room, which was a best-seller. In 1962 she moved to Israel to join an Israeli kibbutz Yasur as a teacher. In 1965 she married Chaim Stephenson. They had three sons together. They returned to England in 1971. She has written over 40 books, including the best-selling children's book The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 10 million copies.
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Malorie Blackman
Malorie Blackman OBE is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She primarily writes literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism. Blackman has been the recipient of many honours for her work including, most recently, the 2022 PEN Pinter Prize.
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Marian Devon
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Matt Groening
American cartoonist
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Matthew Reilly
http://matthewreilly.com/about (2019)
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Maud Hart Lovelace
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Max Allan Collins
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Max Brallier
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Michael Lewis
Michael Monroe Lewis is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball, and others. - Wikipedia
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Michelle Smart
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Mortimer J. Adler
Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popular author.
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Muriel Jensen
Muriel Jensen always wanted to be a writer. She grew up in an industrial town in southeastern Massachusetts populated with wonderful and interesting people. They fill her head now as she creates characters for romance novels. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was ten. Muriel went right to work after high school, first for Pacific Telephone then, as the need to write became stronger, she joined the secretarial pool at the Los Angeles Times while taking a correspondence course in fiction writing. She met her husband-to-be, Ron, at the Xerox machine. (There were two copiers in a nine-story building. That tells you how long ago it was.) They married in 1968. In the first few years of their marriage, Ron edited several small newspapers that were always understaffed. Muriel sometimes helped out as a reporter and soon learned that journalism was not for her—editors got really upset when you made up stuff. Muriel decided to stick with fiction. She and her husband adopted three children in 1973 after moving to Oregon. Suddenly she had many new priorities, but she couldn’t shake the need to write down the scenarios in her head. She worked on them at night while the children watched television. In early 1983, word was out that Harlequin was opening a New York office and looking for manuscripts about American women written by American authors. Muriel was managing a bookstore at the time and had written an entire novel between customers during a long, rainy winter. She buffed it up and sent it in. That was the beginning of her romance writing career. Today, she has three adult children, a growing army of grandchildren, four cats and a Labrador retriever–mix named Amber. About ten years ago, Ron went back to school to work on a degree in fine art. He built a studio in their basement and supplies two galleries with his work. They live in an old Victorian home on a hill overlooking the Columbia River. Every day Muriel watches freighters, Coast Guard cutters, yachts, and fishing boats come and go and speculates about the relationships of those aboard, and those they’ve left behind. She says it always inspires her. Muriel has sold more than 70 books and novellas, and has had such a great time it’s almost embarrassing.
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Nikki Turner
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