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My Authors!
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==media type="custom" key="3741345"[|//Justina Chen Headley//]== While I have fond memories of building elaborate snow forts in our small suburb outside Buffalo, NY, no one in my family wept when my dad landed a job in California. All six of us—my parents, two big brothers, little sister and I—packed into our burnt red station wagon and drove to the Bay Area, collecting decal stickers for every state we crossed. Elementary school was uneventful, aside from being traumatized by my third grade teacher who told me I couldn’t carry a tune. Junior high school is best left unmentioned. But high school! There, I joined the debate team and realized that I could argue and get trophies for it! After graduating from Stanford, I moved to Seattle (land of gray and green) and worked as a product manager for Microsoft. After two years, I traded Seattle for Sydney, Australia. On weekdays, I published and edited magazines, and on weekends, I held baby koalas, swam with dolphins and hiked with wallabies. Of course, with every cute and cuddly animal I encountered in “Oz,” I had a scare with some of the nasties: a palm-sized huntsman spider (in my car!!), bird-sized cockroaches, and a seventeen-foot python… Back in Seattle, I had an epiphany: I missed creative writing. So I decided to pursue my dream of being a writer and giving back to the community. I started StrataGem, a consulting group which helped out women and children’s non-profit organizations. As my kids got older, I read them my favorite children’s books—the books that made me fall in love with reading and writing in the first place. Books like //The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe//. and the Betsy-Tacy series. Books like //The Phantom Tollbooth//. So I took some classes on writing for children, most notably at the [|University of Washington] with two amazing writing instructors (Meg Lippert and Brenda Guiberson), and sold my first book for young readers: //The Patch//. A few months later, I enrolled in a novel-writing course with another gifted instructor (Janet Lee Carey), and began my first young adult novel. Thanks to my incredibly awesome agent, Steven Malk from [|Writers House], that novel was sold within a few days. //Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies)// was the 2007 winner of the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature. My next YA novel, //GIRL OVERBOARD//, was a Junior Library Guild Premiere Selection. And my latest novel, NORTH OF BEAUTIFUL, has received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. In between my adventures with my two children, I read, run, walk, geocache, and practice yoga. I’m an ardent believer in giving back to the community, which is why part of the proceeds from my young adult novels will benefit teens somehow.

[|//**John Boyne**//]
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** The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas spent over 80 weeks at no.1 in Ireland, was the bestselling book of both 2007 and 2008 in Spain, and was a no.1 bestseller in the UK, Australia and many other countries worldwide. **** Worlwide, it was the no.6 bestselling novel of 2008. **** It also reached #1 on the New York Times Bestsellers List. ** **   My novels are published in 41 languages. **
 * || ** I was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1971. I studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. I've published 6 novels, two short novellas aimed at improving adult literacy, over 70 short stories and many book reviews, articles and non-fiction pieces. In 2009, I will publish my seventh novel, THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE (May).    **

__**//=//**__ [|Adrien Stoutenburg] //**__=__**//

Stoutenburg was born in Darfur,Minnesota. She attended the [|Minneapolis School of Arts] from 1936 to 1938. She held a variety of jobs near [|Richfield, Minnesota] until about 1956, when she moved to Californa; she was the editor of [|Parnassus Press] in Berkeley from 1956 in 1958. She wrote at least forty books during her career, mostly for the juvenile market, and including both fiction and non-fiction. Some of Stoutenburg's books were published during the 1960s under the pseudonym Lace Kendall. Her first volume of poetry, //Heroes, Advise Us//, won the 1964 [|Lamont Poetry Prize]; she published two other collections. Following her death, David R. Slavitt edited a selection of her poetry; in his review, Robert van Hallberg wrote then of her work, "Adrien Stoutenburg's poems deserve much more attention than they have received." Stoutenburg died in 1982 in Santa Barbara, California.

In her life, she has writen: Poetry Collections
 * 1964 //Heroes, Advise Us// Scribner (New York).
 * 1969 //A Short History of the Fur Trade//Houghton (Boston, MA).
 * 1979 //Greenwich Mean Time// University of Utah Press (Salt Lake City).
 * 1986 //Land of Superior Mirages: New and Selected Poems// (edited by David R. Slavitt) Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD).

Young Adult Fiction

 * 1954 //The Silver Trap//
 * 1958 //Honeymoon//
 * 1959 //Four on the Road//
 * 1964 //The Things That Are//
 * 1964 //Walk Into the Wind//
 * 1971 //A Cat Is//
 * __//**1971 Out There ("The first major novel of ecological nightmare", from the cover)**//__
 * 1979 //Greenwich Mean Time//

Children's Fiction

 * 1943 //The Model Airplane Mystery//* 1951 //Timber Line Treasure//
 * 1955 //Stranger on the Bay//
 * 1956 //River Duel//
 * 1957 //In This Corner//
 * 1957 //Snowshoe Thompson//
 * 1961 //The Blue-Eyed Convertible//
 * 1962 //Window on the Sea//
 * 1963 //A Time For Dreaming//
 * 1965 //Rain Boat//
 * 1966 //American Tall Tales// (with Richard M. Powers)
 * 1966 //The Crocodile's Mouth: Folk-song Stories//
 * 1968 //American Tall-Tale Animals//
 * 1969 //Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum: Friendly and Funny Giants//
 * 1971 //Haran's Journey//
 * 1972 //The Giant Who Sucked His Thumb//
 * 1978 //Where To Now, Blue?//
 * 19 //The Mud Ponies: Based on a Pawnee Indian Myth//

Non-fiction
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 * 1958 //Wild Animals of the Far West//* 1958 //Wild Treasure, The Story of David Douglas// (with Laura Nelson Baker)
 * 1959 //Scannon: Dog with Lewis and Clark// (with Laura Nelson Baker)
 * 1961 //Beloved Botanist: The Story of Carl Linnaeus// (with Laura Nelson Baker)
 * 1963 //Dear, Dear Livy: The Story of Mark Twain's Wife// (with Laura Nelson Baker)
 * 1965 //Explorer of the Unconscious: Sigmund Freud//
 * 1967 //A Vanishing Thunder: Extinct and Threatened American Birds//
 * 1968 //Animals at Bay: Rare and Rescued American Wildlife//
 * 1968 //Listen, America: A Life of Walt Whitman//
 * 1968 //Short History of the Fur Trade//
 * 1971 //People in Twilight: Vanishing and Changing Cultures//