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Frances White
Frances White is the award winning and internationally bestselling author of Voyage of the Damned, a magical queer fantasy murder mystery at sea. Born in Leicester and now a Nottingham resident, Frances is a creative writing graduate from Royal Holloway University of London. She has a soft spot for writing unlikely, flawed, messy heroes and loves mixing humour and heartbreak. Frances is passionate about bringing more LGBTQIA+ representation and fat positivity into fantasy. When not writing, she can be found sewing costumes for conventions or researching obscure historical facts. She has two cats, Apollo and Hermes, who she dutifully serves. ( https://www.frances-writes.com/press-kit )
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Frances Wickham, DBA Lee
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Frances Wilbur
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Frances Wood
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Franchesca Tatel
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Francie Alexander
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Francine Hughes
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Francine Jacobs
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Francine Jay
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Francine Pascal
Francine Pascal, a native New Yorker, is an author best known for creating the Sweet Valley series of young adult novels. Sweet Valley High was the backbone of the collection, and was made into a popular television series. There were also several spin-offs, including The Unicorn Club, Sweet Valley University, and Sweet Valley Sorority.<p></p> Francine Rubin graduated from New York University in 1958. It was there that she first met author and journalist John Pascal and, in 1965, they were married (the second marriage for each). Francine often credited John as her writing mentor, and they collaborated on several projects, including writing scripts for the ABC soap opera The Young Marrieds, which aired from 1964 - 1966. John died of cancer in 1981, at 49 years old.<p></p> Francine's brother was the prolific Broadway playwright and librettist Michael Stewart, who wrote the books to such Broadway musical hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!, and 42nd Street. Francine, her husband John, and her brother Michael worked together writing the book to the Broadway musical George M!, which ran at the Palace Theatre from 1968 - 1970. A television version of George M! was aired on NBC in 1970.<p></p> Michael Stewart died in 1987. Since then, Francine has revised his musical Mack & Mabel. She has also worked on the revision of another of his musicals, Carnival!, for the Kennedy Center in Washington.<p></p> Francine's first young adult novel, published in 1977, was called Hangin' Out with Cici, in which her heroine, Victoria Martin, went back in time and met her mother as a teenager. It was televised as an ABC After-School Special entitled My Mother Was Never a Kid. She has written two other Victoria Martin books: My First Love and Other Disasters, and Love and Betrayal & Hold the Mayo. Another of her early novels, The Hand-Me-Down Kid, was also made into an ABC After-School Special.<p></p> More recent works include the Caitlin series, a set of three trilogies which follows a teenage girl into adulthood, as well as a second mass-market project, the young adult fantasy spy series Fearless and its spin-off, Fearless: FBI. A TV series was also planned for Fearless, but for several reasons it never aired.<p></p> The Ruling Class, a teen novel about a clique of spectacularly cruel girls who essentially run a high school in a wealthy Dallas suburb, was described in a Fantastic Fiction review as "a magnetic tour de force created by a master storyteller at the top of her form."<p></p> In addition to her work for mostly female teens, Francine has written some adult fiction books, including La Villa (originally published as If Wishes Were Horses) and Save Johanna!, as well as a non-fiction book, The Strange Case of Patty Hearst, which she wrote with her husband John. (Although La Villa was billed as fiction, it has been suggested that it may have been based in part upon true experiences of the author and her late husband. Without further corroboration, however, this can be considered no more than conjecture.)<p></p> John and Francine Pascal lived in Manhattan with Francine's three daughters from her first marriage: Jamie, Laurie, and Susan. (John had a son from his first marriage, Matthew, who lived with his mother.) After John died, Francine and her daughters remained in Manhattan, and Francine has been quoted as saying that much of the inspiration for her young adult novels came from watching her own three daughters grow up.<p></p> Sadly, in 2008, Francine's oldest daughter Jamie died after a two-year battle with liver disease.<p></p> Francine Pascal now divides her time between homes in New York and the south of France. Since John died, she has never remarried.
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Francine Patterson
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Francine Prose
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Francine Prose
Francine Rivers
Francine Rivers began her literary career at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Journalism. From 1976 to 1985, she had a successful writing career in the general market and her books were awarded or nominated for numerous awards and prizes. Although raised in a religious home, Francine did not truly encounter Christ until later in life, when she was already a wife, mother of three, and an established romance novelist. Shortly after becoming a born-again Christian in 1986, Francine wrote Redeeming Love as her statement of faith. First published by Bantam Books, and then re-released by Multnomah Publishers in the mid- 1990s, this retelling of the biblical story of Gomer and Hosea set during the time of the California Gold Rush is now considered a classic work of Christian fiction and continues to be one of the Christian Booksellers Association’s top-selling titles; it has held a spot on the Christian bestseller list for nearly a decade. (source)
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Francine Shapiro
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Francine Shapiro Ph.D.
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Francine Toukou
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Francine Weinberg
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Francino Hariandja
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Francis
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Francis A. Carey
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Francis Adigwe
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Francis A. Jenkins
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Francis A. Kiene III
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Francis Ames-Lewis
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Francis A. Schaeffer
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Francis Bach
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was a figurative painter. His artwork is known for its bold, austere, graphic and often beautiful yet tortured imagery. Abstract figures often appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. Bacon had begun painting by his early 20s, yet he worked only sporadically and without commitment during the late 1920s and early 1930s, when he worked as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs. He later admitted that his career was delayed because he had spent so long looking for a subject that would sustain his interest. His breakthrough came with the 1944 triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, and it was this work and his heads and figures of the late 1940s through to the early 1960s that sealed his reputation as a notably bleak, world famous, chronicler of the human condition. (Source)
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Francis Bacon
An English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author known as the father of Empiricism.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Barrett
Francis Barrett was an English occultist. He was enthusiastic about reviving interest in the occult arts, and published a magical textbook called The Magus.
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Francis Beeding
A pseudonym for co-authors <a href=http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL122595A>Hilary Saint George Saunders</a> and <a href=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1777046A/>John Leslie Palmer</a>. They were Oxford graduates who met while at the League of Nations in Geneva. Palmer was a drama critic who wrote books on the theatre under the pseudonym "Christopher Haddon". Saunders served with the Welsh Guards in WWI and worked for the Air Ministry in WWII, writing the famous pamphlet, The Battle of Britain. From 1946 to 1950 he was librarian of the House of Commons. They also wrote mainstream fiction under the name <a href=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2335418A/David_Pilgrim/>David Pilgrim</a>. Beeding has over thirty novels to his credit, five of which have been adapted into feature films. Of these, <a href=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17735916W/>The House of Dr. Edwardes</a> remains the best known, as it formed the basis of Alfred Hitchcock's film Spellbound.
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Francis Bellamy
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Francis Bok
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Francis Buttle
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Francisca Castro
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Francisca Reyes Aquino
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Francis Celoria
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Francis Chan
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Francis Chan
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Francis Chan
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Francis Clark Howell
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Francisco A. Colombo
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Francisco Antonio Avelino
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Francisco Arcellana
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Francisco A. Rosales
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Francisco Balagtas
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Francisco Beltran Llavador
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Francisco Cândido Xavier
Brazilian philanthropist and spiritist medium
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Francisco Charte Ojeda
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