Anthony Craig Horowitz is an English novel writer and screenwriter. He has written many children's stories, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty works.
Richard Russell Rick Riordan, Jr. is an American writer well known for composing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also created the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series.
Hans Augusto H. Rey , worked with his wife Margret Rey as writers and illustrators of books for kids. They were well known for their Curious George series.
Hans and Margret were both Jewish and of German birth.
For the Tv series of the same name, see Geronimo Stilton.
Geronimo Stilton is a best-selling children's book series released by Edizioni Piemme of Milan, Italy, since 2000. Scholastic Corporation has released the English version of the series since February 2004.
Roald Dahl was a British novel writer, short story author, fighter pilot and screenwriter.
Born in Llandaff, Cardiff, to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander.
Eoin Colfer is an Irish writer. He is most famous as the writer of the Artemis Fowl series, but he has also written other successful works. His stories have been compared to the books of J. Rowling.
Jeffrey Bruce Jeff Kinney is a former professional football player, a running back for the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills of the Nfl. At 6'2 and 215 lb. , Kinney was selected by the Chiefs in the first round of the 1972 Nfl Draft, the 23rd overall pick.
Mo Willems is an American author, animator, and books for kids author/illustrator.
Willems was brought up in New Orleans and attended the Isidore Newman Colledge. He graduated cum laude from New York University's Tisch Colledge of the Arts. He married Cheryl Camp in Brooklyn, New York, in 1997.
Suzanne Collins is an American TV author and novel writer.
Collins's career started in 1991 as a author for children's TV programs. She worked on several TV programs for Nickelodeon, including Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear, and Oswald.
Mary Pope Osborne is an American children's book writer. She is well known for her award-winning and bestselling Magic Tree House series, which has been translated into over 20 languages and sold over 53 million copies.
Joanna Cole , is a United States writer of books for kids. She is most famous as the writer of The Magic Colledge Bus series of books for kids. Joanna Cole has written over 250 works ranging from her first book Cockroaches to her famous series Magic Colledge Bus.
Margret Elizabeth Rey , born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, was , the co-author and artist of books for kids, the most famous of which are the Curious George series.
Margarete Waldstein started life in Hamburg in 1906; her dad was a member of the Reichstag.
David Michaels is a pen name for the writers of stories in the Splinter Cell, Endwar, H. X , and Ghost Recon series, all of which were produced by Ubisoft Entertainment and developed under Ubisoft's Tom Clancy license.
Eiichiro Oda is a Japanese manga artist, well known as the creator of One Piece.
As a child, Oda was inspired by Akira Toriyama's books and aspired to become a manga artist. He recalls that his interest in pirates was probably sparked by the popular Tv animation series titled Vicky the Viking.
John Flanagan may refer To:
john Jesus Flanagan , three-time Olympic champion in Athletics
john Flanagan , designed the Washington U. quarter dollar Coin
john Flanagan , writer of the Ranger's Apprentice Series
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Clive Eric Cussler is an American adventure novel writer and marine archaeologist. His thriller stories, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have reached The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than seventeen times.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pseudonym Mark Twain, was an American writer and humorist. He is most noted for his stories, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the latter often named the Great American Novel.
Wilbur Addison Smith is a best-selling novel writer currently residing in London. His writings include 16th and 17th century tales about the founding of the southern territories of Africa and the subsequent adventures and international intrigues relevant to these settlements.
Terry Pratchett, is an English novel writer, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy stories.
Karen Traviss is a science fiction writer and full-time novel writer from Wiltshire, England. Originally from the Portsmouth area, Traviss worked as both a journalist and defence correspondent before turning her attention to composing fiction.
Christopher Paolini is an American novel writer. He is well known as the writer of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the works Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance. He lives in Paradise Valley, Montana, where he created his first book.
Scott Westerfeld is an American writer of science fiction. He started life in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, Usa.
The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds are parts one and two of the same book, originally titled Succession.
Jeanne Duprau is an American author, well known for The Works of Ember, a series of stories for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.
Duprau received a Ba in English Literature from Scrips College in Claremont, California.
Erin Hunter is a pen name used by the writers Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Tui Sutherland, along with editor Victoria Holmes. Under this pseudonym, they have written two series of works.
Maurice Bernard Sendak is an American author and artist of children's literature. He is well known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, released in 1963.
Sendak started life in Brooklyn, New York to Polish Jewish immigrant parents Sarah and Philip Sendak, a dressmaker.
Jeff Smith (born February 27, 1960) is an American cartoonist, well known as the creator of the self-published comic book series Bone. His current series, Rasl, focuses on an art thief who hops through dimensional barriers, hiding out on various parallel worlds.
Nancy Farmer may refer To:
nancy Farmer , former State Treasurer of Missouri
nancy Farmer , three-time winner of the Newbery Honor and winner of National Book Award
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Elaine Lobl Konigsburg is an American writer and artist of books for kids and young adult fiction. She is the only writer to win the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year, 1968, with her second and first works respectively: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Judy Blundell, better known by her pen name Jude Watson, is an American novel writer for young readers. Her book What I Saw and How I Lied won the National Book Prize for Young People's Literature in 2008.
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Alice Dalgliesh was an American writer and book editor who created over 40 books for kids, mostly illustrated by Katherine Milhous.
alice Dalgliesh immigrated to America in 1912 where she studied at the Pratt Institute.
Kristin Cashore is an American fantasy writer, whose debut novel, Graceling, was released in October 2008. The book has been nominated for the Andre Norton and William C. Morris prizes, and is held in over 1000 libraries.
James Lee Burke is an American writer of mysteries, well known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Prize for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose. The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones.
Maureen Johnson is an American writer of young adult fiction. Her first book, The Key to the Golden Firebird, was released in May 2004. Since then, she has released five more works, all for young adults. Johnson is also the founder of the political networking site Ya for Obama.
Susan Beth Pfeffer is a New York Times bestselling writer well known for young adult science fiction. She is also known for composing About David and the series often named, The Last Survivors, consisting of, Life as we Knew it, The Dead and the Gone, and This World we Live in.
Brandon Mull is an American author who is well known as the writer of the Fablehaven fantasy series, which is a New York Times' bestseller. Mull has also written The Candy Shop War.
Norton Juster is an American architect and writer. He is famous primarily for authoring books for kids; among them The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.
Juster's dad was an architect, and Juster's brother became an architect as well.
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren , 14 November 1907 28 January 2002) was a Swedish writer and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated writer and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide.
John Reynolds Gardiner was an American writer and engineer. He is famous for composing Stone Fox in 1980 which was later adapted to an Nbc film. He has also edited children's novels for TV.
Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by the pseudonym Avi, is an American writer of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of both the Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal.
Thomas Anthony Tomie A. Depaola , is an American writer and artist of over 200 books for kids, including Caldecott Honor book Strega Nona and Newbery Honor book 26 Fairmount Avenue. Depaola was prized the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 2011.
Helen Gillian Oxenbury is an award-winning artist of children's picture works. She lives with her husband, the artist John Burningham, in north London.
Michael Wayne Rosen , is a broadcaster, children's novel writer and poet and the writer of 140 works. He was appointed as the fifth Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and held this honour until 2009.
Trenton Lee Stewart is an American writer well known for the Mysterious Benedict Society series. His idea for the series came from his belief that children are often seen, rarely heard, and always underestimated. Stewart is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Samuel Youd is a British science fiction writer, well known for his novel The Death of Grass and The Tripods trilogy, released under the pen name John Christopher. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.
Donald James Machale, known popularly under the pseudonym D. Machale, is a author, director, and executive producer. He has been affiliated with shows such as Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Flight 29 Down and Seasonal Differences.
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