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Michael Chabon is an American author of literary fiction and children’s novels. Aside from his novels and children’s books, he has also written and published screenplays, comics and newspaper serials. Michael realized he wanted to be a writer after writing a short story for school at age 10, and never looked back. Chabon attended Carnegie […]
Eva Ibbotson (1925-2010) was a British novelist of romance and children’s/YA fantasy novels. Eva was born in Vienna, Austria, but her family moved to England when Hitler gained power. She was educated at Bedford College, Cambridge University and the University of Durham. She had originally wanted to be a physiologist, but when she realized the […]
Rebecca Stead is an American author of children’s novels. She grew up in New York City, where she would quickly fall in love with fiction. Rebecca would grow up to become a public defender, while she was writing as a hobby. However, her young song pushed her laptop off the table, causing her to lose […]
The Blessings series is a series of contemporary romance/romantic suspense novels by American novelist Beverly Jenkins. The series is set in Henry Adams, Kansas – a charming small town that always feels like home. The stories are about family, friendship, love and the little surprises hidden in life.
Beverly Jenkins is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. Her novels feature African-American characters and are often set in periods that are often overlooked. This didn’t make it any easy for her to get published, as publishers were only looking for historical African-American novels to be set during slavery. She writes the […]
The Symphony of Ages is a series of fantasy/romance novels by American novelist Elizabeth Haydon. The series follows Rhapsody, a young talented singer who travels through time to a new land that was foretold in prophecy. Alongside her companions, she will fight to bring a kingdom back together that has been ravaged by war and […]
Elizabeth Haydon is an American author of fantasy novels. She writes the Symphony of Ages and the Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme (YA) series. The two series are set in the same universe. Immediately after debuting, she was compared to some of the greatest fantasy novelists of all time. Aside from being a writer, Haydon […]
Iceberg Slim was the pseudonym of Robert Beck (1918-1992), who wrote crime fiction and non-fiction books. Slim was a pimp who took his real-life experiences and parlayed them into a writing career. His name comes from his calm demeanor in intense situations, as well as his body type. He was successful in part due to […]
Jonathan Franzen is an American author of literary fiction and non-fiction books. He was born near Chicago and grew up outside of St. Louis, Missouri. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1981, he studied at the Freie Universitat in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar and later worked in a seismology lab at Harvard University’s Department […]
Amanda Carmack is an American author of historical mystery novels. She writes the Kate Haywood Elziabethan Mysteries series. She also writes as Amanda McCabe and Laurel McKee. Amanda became interested in the Tudors after happening upon “Anne of the Thousand Days” on TV as a kid. She wishes she could live with them, but writing […]