Order of Anthony Doerr Books
Anthony Doerr is an American novelist. He was raised in Cleveland, Ohio and attended University School in the area, where he graduated from in 1991. Doerr majored in history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he graduated in 1995, and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University. His novel All the Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho. He is married with twin sons. (more…)
Order of Kelly Parsons Books
Kelly Parsons is an American author of medical thriller novels. He is a board-certified urologist with degrees from Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins, and he is on the faculty at the University of California San Diego. He lives with his family in Southern California. (more…)
Order of Dave Eggers Books
Dave Eggers is an American author of literary fiction and non-fiction, in addition to also being an editor and a publisher. He is the son of an attorney and a teacher. Both of his parents died relatively young, and thus he ended up having to take care of his eight-year-old brother, interrupting his journalism studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These events were chronicled in his first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. He later founded his own publishing house, McSweeney’s. Eggers is married to fellow writer Vendela Vida and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. (more…)
Order of Highland Guard Books
Highland Guard is a series of historical romance novels by American novelist Monica McCarty. The Highland Guard is a team of Highlanders banded together by Robert the Bruce. Each member is the best in his discipline, making up the elite fighting force known as the Highland Guard. (more…)
Order of Monica McCarty Books
Monica McCarty is an American author of historical romance novels. She writes the Highland Guard series. Monica has always wanted to read. She grew up in California, so there always always something to do, but she would often stay inside anyway with a book. She enjoyed reading the Little House series, the Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, Watership Down, Nancy Drew and anything by Judy Blume before she started reading books of her mother’s – even Sidney Sheldon’s The Other Side of Midnight. Monica finished law school, got married, spent some time living and working in Minnesota, returned to California, had a couple of kids and began writing because she realized a legal career would be too difficult with her family lifestyle. (more…)
Order of Stuart Gibbs Books
Stuart Gibbs is an American author of children’s novels. He writes the FunJungle and Spy School series. Stuart has wanted to be writing for as long as he can remember; he even has some of the stories he wrote in kindergarten. Prior to becoming a novelist, he wrote movies like See Spot Run, Repli-Kate, Showdown and worked on several animated projects. With that said, he finds writing books a lot more fun. Stuart lives in Los Angeles, California. (more…)
Order of Baddest Chick Books
The Baddest Chick series is a series of urban fiction novels by American novelist Nisa Santiago. The series focuses on the rivalry of twin 17-year-old sisters, Apple and Kola. The series is set in Harlem, New York. (more…)
Order of Nisa Santiago Books
Nisa Santiago is an American author of urban fiction novels. She writes the Baddest Chick series. Nisa was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She has been coined the “Duchess of Hop-Hip lit,” and is just happy to be doing what she loves a career rather than as a hobby. Nisa lives in Harlem, New York. (more…)
Order of Peg Cochran Books
Peg Cochran is an American author of cozy mystery and young adult novels. She writes the Gourmet De-Lite Mysteries, Lucille Mysteries and Cranberry Cove Mysteries series. Peg grew up in New Jersey, outside of New York City. Following college, she lived in New York while managing an art gallery owned by the son of the artist Henri Matisse. However, once she had her first daughter, Francesca, she returned home to the Garden State suburbs where she had her second daughter, Annabelle. (more…)
Order of Yann Martel Books
Yann Martel is a Canadian author of literary fiction novels. He is best known for his novel Life of Pi, which won the Man Booker Prize and was adapted to film. Yann was born in Spain to nomadic Canadian parents. He grew up spending time in Alaska, British Columbia, Costa Rica, France, Ontario and Mexico. As an adult, he’s lived in Iran, Turkey and India. After studying philosophy at Trent University and while doing various odd jobs – tree planting, dishwashing, working as a security guard – he began to write. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children. (more…)