Authors

Helen Ovbiagele

Helen Aiyeohusa OVBIAGELE is an author of six books in the MACMILLAN GREAT BRITAIN PACESETTERS SERIES. She writes romance fiction to promote women and young people’s empowerment, and also ethics and morals in an African setting. She studied French/English at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and Translation and Bilingual studies at the Lycee Francais du Royaume-Uni in South Kensington, London. After teaching at some schools in Lagos, she worked for PEUGEOT AUTOMOBILE NIGERIA LIMITED, Lagos, and then joined the VANGUARD NEWSPAPERS, Lagos, in 1984, as the pioneer Head of Woman’s desk. In this capacity she participated in the Beijing plus Five world women’s conference in New York in 2001, and attended seminars, workshops on women’s issues in Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania and in several parts of Nigeria. She retired from this position after twenty-nine years, and has taken up writing fiction again. She lives with her family in Lagos, Nigeria.

3 books

Helen Oxenbury

English illustrator and writer of children's picture books

5 books

Helen Oyeyemi

7 books

Helen Paiba

1 book

Helen Palmer

3 books

Helen Perelman

3 books

Helen Phillips

2 books

Helen Pilcher

1 book

Helen Pluckrose

1 book

Helen Prejean

1 book

Helen Rappaport

4 books

Helen Recorvits

2 books

Helen Rees-Bidder

1 book

Helen Reilly

Helen Reilly (nee Helen Kieran) was born and raised in New York City in a literary family. Her brother, James Kieran, was also a writer, and two of Reilly's daughters, Ursula Curtiss and Mary McMullen, are also writers. Reilly's early books were police procedurals based on her research into the New York Homicide squad. Reilly also used the pseudonym Kieran Abbey.

4 books

Helen Reynolds

1 book

Helen R. Myers

14 books

Helen Roney Sattler

1 book

Helen R. Prillaman

1 book

Helen Russell

1 book

Helen Rutter

1 book

Helen Scales

1 book

Helen Scott Taylor

1 book

Helen Sharp

1 book

Helen Shelton

4 books

Helen Simonson

2 books

Helen Simpson

1 book

Helen Singer Kaplan

1 book

Helen (special forward by Eleanor Rossevelt) Keller

1 book

Helen Stephens

1 book

Helen Stephens

1 book

Helen Stevenson

1 book

Helen Stone

1 book

Helen Stringer

1 book

Helen Svensson

1 book

Helen S. Willard

1 book

Helen Sword

1 book

Helen Thompson

1 book

Helen Toner

1 book

Helen Tucker

3 books

Helen Tupper

1 book

Helen Upshaw

1 book

Helen Varney

1 book

Helen V. Griffith

1 book

Helen Villa Connor

1 book

Helen Wambach

1 book

Helen Wan

1 book

Helen Ward

1 book

Helen Waterford

1 book

Helen Wells

Helen Frances Weinstock was born on 29 March 1910, in Danville, Illinois, USA. Her family moved to New York City when she was about seven. As a teenager, she studied painting at the Art Students League in New York City; she also studied music. At New York University, she became the first female editor of the school's literary quarterly. She graduated from NYU in 1934, with a major in philosophy and a minor in sociology and psychology. After graduation, she worked for a time as a social worker. During World War II, she served as a volunteer with the State Department's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, escorting Latin American visitors in the United States. She traveled widely, visiting Mexico, Brazil, England, Spain, France, Austria, Israel, and several other countries. Helen also began to write for magazines, and eventually turned to writing full-time after winning prizes in two short-story contests. After writing the first eight books of the Cherry Ames series and the first three Vicki Barr books as Helen Wells, she decided to abandon both series to write for television and radio, and Julie Tatham took over (however, both the ninth Cherry Ames book and the fourth Vicki Barr book were published as Helen Wells). Julie Tatham later returned the Vicki Barr books to Helen Wells in 1953 and the Cherry Ames books in 1955. Helen was active in several author organizations, especially the Mystery Writers of America, and taught writing courses at the Institute of Children's Literature in Redding Ridge, Connecticut. Helen Wells died in New York City on 10 February 1986, and was buried in Danville, Illinois. The 1986 Juvenile Series Writers Conference in Corning, New York, was dedicated to her memory.

8 books

Helen Wessel

1 book