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Debbie Macomber was born on 22 October 1948 in Yakima, Washington, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Cedar Cove (2013), Trading Christmas (2010) and The Christmas Basket. She has been married to Wayne Macomber since 7 September 1968. They have four children.Cedar Cove (TV Series) (2013-2015)
Meghan Ory and Andrew W. Walker in Debbie Macomber's Dashing Through the Snow (2015)
Debbie Macomber's Dashing Through the Snow
Trading Christmas (2011)
Miracle in Manhattan (2010) (book "Call Me Mrs. Miracle")
Mrs. Miracle (2009)
This Matter of Marriage (1998) Caroline Rhea in A Mrs. Miracle Christmas (2021)
A Mrs. Miracle Christmas- Danielle Steel was born on 14 August 1947 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a writer, known for Changes (1991), Now and Forever (1983) and Jewels (1992). She was previously married to Thomas J. Perkins, John Traina, William George Toth, Danny Zugelder and Claude-Eric Lazard.Safe Harbour (Video) (2007)
The Ring (TV Movie) (1996)
Full Circle (TV Movie) (1996)
Remembrance (TV Movie) (1996)
Mixed Blessings (TV Movie) (1995)
No Greater Love (TV Movie) (1996)
Vanished (TV Movie) (1995)
Family Album (TV Movie) (1994)
A Perfect Stranger (TV Movie) (1994)
Once in a Lifetime (TV Movie) (1994)
Message from Nam (TV Movie) (1993)
Star (TV Movie) (1993)
Heartbeat (TV Movie) (1993)
Jewels (TV Movie) (1992)
Secrets (TV Movie) (1992)
Daddy (TV Movie) (1991)
Palomino (TV Movie) (1991)
Changes (TV Movie) (1991)
Fine Things (TV Movie) (1990)
Kaleidoscope (TV Movie) (1990)
Crossings (TV Mini-Series) (1986)
Now and Forever (1983) - Writer
- Actress
- Producer
Sandra Brown is known for Sandra Brown's White Hot (2016), Copyface ~ the Me Who Was Erased (2016) and Ricochet (2011). She is married to Michael Brown. They have two children.Ricochet (TV Movie) (2011)
Smoke Screen (TV Movie) (2010)
French Silk (TV Movie) (1994)- Writer
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Janette Oke was born on 18 February 1935 in Champion, Alberta, Canada. She is a writer, known for Love Comes Softly (2003), When Calls the Heart (2014) and Love's Long Journey (2005).When Calls the Heart (TV Series) (2015-????)
When Calls the Heart (TV Movie) (2013)
Love's Christmas Journey (TV Movie) (2011)
Love Begins (TV Movie) (2011)
Love Finds a Home (TV Movie) (2009)
Love Takes Wing (TV Movie) (2009)
Love's Unfolding Dream (TV Movie) (2007)
Love's Unending Legacy (TV Movie) (2007)
Love's Abiding Joy (2006)
Love's Long Journey (2005)
Love's Enduring Promise (2004)
Love Comes Softly (2003)- Writer
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- Actor
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland. His parents were Nellie Ruth (Pillsbury), who worked as a caregiver at a mental institute, and Donald Edwin King, a merchant seaman. His father was born under the surname "Pollock," but used the last name "King," under which Stephen was born. He has an older brother, David. The Kings were a typical family until one night, when Donald said he was stepping out for cigarettes and was never heard from again. Ruth took over raising the family with help from relatives. They traveled throughout many states over several years, finally moving back to Durham, Maine, in 1958.
Stephen began his actual writing career in January of 1959, when David and Stephen decided to publish their own local newspaper named "Dave's Rag". David bought a mimeograph machine, and they put together a paper they sold for five cents an issue. Stephen attended Lisbon High School, in Lisbon, in 1962. Collaborating with his best friend Chris Chesley in 1963, they published a collection of 18 short stories called "People, Places, and Things--Volume I". King's stories included "Hotel at the End of the Road", "I've Got to Get Away!", "The Dimension Warp", "The Thing at the Bottom of the Well", "The Stranger", "I'm Falling", "The Cursed Expedition", and "The Other Side of the Fog." A year later, King's amateur press, Triad and Gaslight Books, published a two-part book titled "The Star Invaders".
King made his first actual published appearance in 1965 in the magazine Comics Review with his story "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber." The story ran about 6,000 words in length. In 1966 he graduated from high school and took a scholarship to attend the University of Maine. Looking back on his high school days, King recalled that "my high school career was totally undistinguished. I was not at the top of my class, nor at the bottom." Later that summer King began working on a novel called "Getting It On", about some kids who take over a classroom and try unsuccessfully to ward off the National Guard. During his first year at college, King completed his first full-length novel, "The Long Walk." He submitted the novel to Bennett Cerf/Random House only to have it rejected. King took the rejection badly and filed the book away.
He made his first small sale--$35--with the story "The Glass Floor". In June 1970 King graduated from the University of Maine with a Bachelor of Science degree in English and a certificate to teach high school. King's next idea came from the poem by Robert Browning, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." He found bright colored green paper in the library and began work on "The Dark Tower" saga, but his chronic shortage of money meant that he was unable to further pursue the novel, and it, too, was filed away. King took a job at a filling station pumping gas for the princely sum of $1.25 an hour. Soon he began to earn money for his writings by submitting his short stories to men's magazines such as Cavalier.
On January 2, 1971, he married Tabitha King (born Tabitha Jane Spruce). In the fall of 1971 King took a teaching job at Hampden Academy, earning $6,400 a year. The Kings then moved to Hermon, a town west of Bangor. Stephen then began work on a short story about a teenage girl named Carietta White. After completing a few pages, he decided it was not a worthy story and crumpled the pages up and tossed them into the trash. Fortunately, Tabitha took the pages out and read them. She encouraged her husband to continue the story, which he did. In January 1973 he submitted "Carrie" to Doubleday. In March Doubleday bought the book. On May 12 the publisher sold the paperback rights for the novel to New American Library for $400,000. His contract called for his getting half of that sum, and he quit his teaching job to pursue writing full time. The rest, as they say, is history.
Since then King has had numerous short stories and novels published and movies made from his work. He has been called the "Master of Horror". His books have been translated into 33 different languages, published in over 35 different countries. There are over 300 million copies of his novels in publication. He continues to live in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, and writes out of his home.
In June 1999 King was severely injured in an accident, he was walking alongside a highway and was hit by a van, that left him in critical condition with injuries to his lung, broken ribs, a broken leg and a severely fractured hip. After three weeks of operations, he was released from the Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.The Dark Tower (2017)
Cujo: Canine Unit Joint Operations (2017)
11.22.63 (TV Mini-Series)(2016)
Cell (2016)
Mr. Mercedes (TV Series) (2015)
Gerald's Game (novel) (announced)
It (novel) (announced)
Lisey's Story (novel)
Rose Madder (novel) (announced)
The Stand (based on the novel by) (announced)
The Talisman (TV Mini-Series) (novel)
Under the Dome (TV SERIES 2013-2015)
Bag of Bones (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
The Dead Zone (TV Series)(2002-2007)
Salem's Lot (TV Movie) (2004)
Dreamcatcher (2003)
The Green Mile (1999)
Thinner (1996)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Needful Things (1993)
The Tommyknockers (TV Mini-Series) (1993)
The Dark Half (novel "The Dark Half") (1993)
Misery (1990)
It (TV Mini-Series(1990)
Pet Sematary (1989)
Apt Pupil (1987)
Firestarter (1984)
Christine (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Cujo (1983)
The Shining (1980)
Salem's Lot (TV Movie) (1979)
Carrie (1976)- Writer
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Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1988 and is one of the more critically-acclaimed authors of the past 5 years. He is the author of 5 best-selling books, including "The Notebook" and "The Rescue". Eleven of his books, Message in a Bottle (1999), A Walk to Remember (2002), The Notebook (2004), Nights in Rodanthe (2008), The Last Song [2010] , Dear John [2010] , The Lucky One [2012], Safe Haven [2013] , The Best of Me [2014] , The Longest Ride (2015) and The Choice (2016)
have been adapted into blockbuster movies. Sparks lives in North Carolina with his wife, 3 sons, and twin daughters.The Choice (2016)
The Longest Ride (2015)
The Best of Me (2014)
Safe Haven (2013)
The Lucky One (2012)
The Last Song (2010)
Dear John (2010)
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
The Notebook (2004)
A Walk to Remember (2002)
Message in a Bottle (1999)- Agatha was born as "Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller" in 1890 to Frederick Alvah Miller and Clara Boehmer. Agatha was of American and British descent, her father being American and her mother British. Her father was a relatively affluent stockbroker. Agatha received home education from early childhood to when she turned 12-years-old in 1902. Her parents taught her how to read, write, perform arithmetic, and play music. Her father died in 1901. Agatha was sent to a girl's school in Torquay, Devon, where she studied from 1902 to 1905. She continued her education in Paris, France from 1905 to 1910. She then returned to her surviving family in England.
As a young adult, Agatha aspired to be a writer and produced a number of unpublished short stories and novels. She submitted them to various publishers and literary magazines, but they were all rejected. Several of these unpublished works were later revised into more successful ones. While still in this point of her life, Agatha sought advise from professional writer Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960). Meanwhile she was searching for a suitable husband and in 1913 accepted a marriage proposal from military officer and pilot-in-training Archibald "Archie" Christie. They married in late 1914. Her married name became "Agatha Christie" and she used it for most of her literary works, including ones created decades following the end of her first marriage.
During World War I, Archie Christie was send to fight in the war and Agatha joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, a British voluntary unit providing field nursing services. She performed unpaid work as a volunteer nurse from 1914 to 1916. Then she was promoted to "apothecaries' assistant" (dispenser), a position which earned her a small salary until the end of the war. She ended her service in September, 1918.
Agatha wrote "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", her debut novel ,in 1916, but was unable to find a publisher for it until 1920. The novel introduced her famous character Hercule Poirot and his supporting characters Inspector Japp and Arthur Hastings. The novel is set in World War I and is one of the few of her works which are connected to a specific time period.
Following the end of World War I and their retirement from military life, Agatha and Archie Christie moved to London and settled into civilian life. Their only child Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Christie (1919-2004) was born early in the marriage. Agatha's debut novel was first published in 1920 and turned out to be a hit. It was soon followed by the successful novels "The Secret Adversary" (1922) and "Murder on the Links" (1923) and various short stories. Agatha soon became a celebrated writer.
In 1926, Archie Christie announced to Agatha that he had a mistress and that he wanted a divorce. Agatha took it hard and mysteriously disappeared for a period of 10 days. After an extensive manhunt and much publicity, she was found living under a false name in Yorkshire. She had assumed the last name of Archie's mistress and claimed to have no memory of how she ended up there. The doctors who attended to her determined that she had amnesia. Despite various theories by multiple sources, these 10 days are the most mysterious chapter in Agatha's life.
Agatha and Archie divorced in 1928, though she kept the last name Christie. She gained sole custody of her daughter Rosalind. In 1930, Agatha married her second (and last) husband Max Mallowan, a professional archaeologist. They would remain married until her death in 1976.Christie often used places that she was familiar with as settings for her novels and short stories. Her various travels with Max introduced her to locations of the Middle East, and provided inspiration for a number of novels.
In 1934, Agatha and Max settled in Winterbrook, Oxfordshire, which served as their main residence until their respective deaths. During World War II, she served in the pharmacy at the University College Hospital, where she gained additional training about substances used for poisoning cases. She incorporated such knowledge for realistic details in her stories.
She became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1956 and a Dame Commander of the same order in 1971. Her husband was knighted in 1968. They are among the relatively few couples where both members have been honored for their work. Agatha continued writing until 1974, though her health problems affected her writing style. Her memory was problematic for several years and she had trouble remembering the details of her own work, even while she was writing it. Recent researches on her medical condition suggest that she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other dementia. She died of natural causes in early 1976. - Writer
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#1 New York Times Bestselling novelist Karen Kingsbury writes Life-Changing Fiction(TM) and has been called America's favorite inspirational author. There are more than 25 million copies of her award-winning books in print, including several million copies sold in the past year. Karen's last dozen titles have topped national bestseller charts.
In June, 2022, Kingsbury opened her own production company in Nashville, TN., "Karen Kingsbury Productions". The company produced a short film, "Ashley and Landon", also in June, 2022. And in fall, 2022, Karen Kingsbury Productions will shoot its first feature film, "Someone Like You" based on her bestselling Simon&Schuster novel, by the same name.
Many of Kingsbury's novels have been made into feature films or television movies, including Hallmark's "Karen Kingsbury's The Bridge" (parts 1 and 2), Hallmark's "Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle" and Hallmark's "Karen Kingsbury's A Time to Dance" - all of which broke viewing records for the network. In addition, her book "Like Dandelion Dust" was made into a feature film starring Mira Sorvino, Barry Pepper, and Cole Hauser.
This year she and her writing partner, Tyler Russell, wrote Season One of "A Thousand Tomorrows" produced by Sony Affirm and set to debut in late 2022.
In addition, Roma Downey and MGM have developed three of Kingsbury's "Baxter Family" books into three seasons of "The Baxters" set to air in the next year.
Kingsbury lives with her husband, Don, in Nashville, TN., near several of their children and grandchildrenThe Bridge (TV Movie) (2015)
Like Dandelion Dust (2009)
Every Woman's Dream (TV Movie) (book "Deadly Pretender: The Double Life of David Miller)(1996)- Writer
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Nora Roberts was born on 10 October 1950 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for Brazen (2022), Sanctuary (2001) and Carolina Moon (2007). She has been married to Bruce Wilder since 6 July 1985. She was previously married to Ronald Aufdem-Brinke.Carnal Innocence (TV Movie) (2011)
Tribute (TV Movie) (2009)
High Noon (TV Movie) (2009)
Midnight Bayou (TV Movie) (2009)
Northern Lights (TV Movie) (2009)
Carolina Moon (TV Movie) (2007)
Blue Smoke (TV Movie) (2007)
Montana Sky (TV Movie) (2007)
Angels Fall (TV Movie) (2007)
Sanctuary (TV Movie) (2001)
Magic Moments (TV Movie) (1989)- Writer
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- Actor
Dan Brown was born on 22 June 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Inferno (2016), The Da Vinci Code (2006) and Angels & Demons (2009). He was previously married to Blythe Newlon.Inferno (2016)
The Lost Symbol (????)
Angels & Demons (2009)
The Da Vinci Code (2006)- Producer
- Writer
- Director
John Michael Green was born on August 24, 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a YouTube video-blogger, or "vlogger", with his brother, Hank Green. Their YouTube channel, Vlogbrothers, has over 2,500,000 subscribers as of May 2015. Perhaps more notably, John is also an author. His most recent book, released in January 2012, was adapted to film in The Fault in Our Stars (2014). John and his wife Sarah have two children together, a son named Henry, and a daughter named Alice. The family resides in Indianapolis, Indiana. Alongside his brother, Hank Green, John started an annual YouTube conference called "Vidcon" in 2010. Starting at only 1,400 attendee's in 2013 there were over 12,000 in attendance of the weekend long conference which celebrates the online video viewers, creators, and industry representatives worldwide, drawing thousands of attendees.Looking for Alaska (2017)
Paper Towns (2015)
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)- Writer
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Joanne Rowling was born in Yate, near Bristol, a few miles south of a town called Dursley ("Harry Potter"'s Muggle-family). Her father Peter Rowling was an engineer for Rolls Royce in Bristol at this time. Her mother, Anne, was half-French and half-Scottish. They met on a train as it left King's Cross Station in London. Her sister Diana is about 2 years younger than Joanne. In 1971, Peter Rowling moved his family to the nearby village of Winterbourne (still in the Bristol vicinity). During the family's residence in Winterbourne, Jo and Di Rowling were friends with neighborhood children, Ian and Vikki Potter. In 1974, the Rowling family moved yet again, this time to Tutshill, near the Welsh border-town of Chepstow in the Forest of Dean and across the Severn River from the greater Bristol area. Rowling admits to having been a bit of a daydreamer as a child and began writing stories at the age of six. After leaving Exeter University, where she read French and Classics, she started work as a teacher but daydreamed about becoming a writer. One day, stuck on a delayed train for four hours between Manchester and London, she dreamed up a boy called "Harry Potter". That was in 1990. It took her six years to write the book. In the meantime, she went to teach in Portugal, married a Portuguese television journalist, had her daughter, Jessica, divorced her husband and returned to Britain when Jessica was just three months old. She went to live in Edinburgh to be near her sister, Di. Her sudden penury made her realize that it was "back-against-the-wall time" and she decided to finish her "Harry Potter" book. She sent the manuscript to two agents and one publisher, looking up likely prospects in the library. One of these agents that she picked at random based on the fact that she liked his name, Christopher Little, was immediately captivated by the manuscript and signed her on as his client within three days. During the 1995-1996 time-frame, while hoping to get the manuscript for "Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone" published, Rowling worked as a French teacher in Edinburgh. Several publishers turned down the manuscript before Bloomsbury agreed to purchase it in 1996.Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3 (2020)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2 (2018)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)- Writer
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Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and novelist, author of the bestselling series The Underland Chronicles and the wildly successful Hunger Games trilogy that spawned the Lionsgate film The Hunger Games (2012) and the three subsequently announced sequels, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015). Born in Hartford, Connecticut on August 10, 1962, Collins is the daughter of a U.S. Air Force officer and was a successful television writer before turning her talents to writing novels. Currently residing in Sandy Hook, Connecticut with her husband and their two children, Suzanne Collins is Amazon.com's best-selling author of all time.
Collins began her television writing career in 1991 after earning a degree from Indiana University with a double major in drama and telecommunications. She worked on a number of television productions for Nickelodeon such as Clarissa Explains It All (1991), Little Bear (1995) and Oswald (2001). She was also nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for her work in co-writing Santa, Baby! (2001), a well-received animated Christmas special. Said to be inspired in part by Alice in Wonderland, Collins' first book for middle schoolers, Gregor the Overlander (2003), was nominated for a Nutmeg Children's Book Award. Between 2003 and 2007, Collins added 4 more titles to the New York Times bestselling Underland Chronicles series before turning her attention to Katniss Everdeen and The Hunger Games.
One of the most successful written works in history, Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy has found an audience with readers of all ages - publisher Scholastic announced there were over 50 million Hunger Games books in print by the time the first film was released in 2012. The first Hunger Games film, The Hunger Games (2012) was adapted for the screen by director Gary Ross and Collins herself, and starred Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth. The second film, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) is scheduled for release in late 2013 and the third novel of the trilogy will be split into two films: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), scheduled to be released in 2014 and 2015 respectively.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
The Hunger Games (2012)- Producer
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Stephenie born in Connecticut in 1973. Her family was settled in Phoenix by the time she was four. The unusual spelling of her name came from her father, Stephen ( + ie).
Stephenie went to high school in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was awarded a National Merit Scholarship, and she used it to pay her way to Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. She majored in English.
Stephenie met her husband, Pancho, when she was four, but they only saw each other weekly through church activities. When they finally got around to exchanging words, sixteen years after their first meeting, it only took nine months from the first "hello" to the wedding.
They have been married for ten and a half years now, and have three boys. Gabe is eight, Seth is five, and Eli is three.
Twilight is her very first novel. New Moon is the second book in the series, Eclipse the third. The fourth book Breaking Dawn was released in August 2008.The Host (2013)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Twilight (2008)- Writer
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Veronica Roth was born on 19 August 1988 in New York, New York, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for Divergent (2014), The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) and Allegiant (2016).The Divergent Series: Ascendant (2017)
The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016)
Insurgent (2015)
Divergent (2014)- Lauren Oliver is a multi- New York Times bestselling author, the executive producer, creator and sole writer for the first season of Amazon Studio's one-hour drama series, Panic (premiering May 28), based on her bestselling novel of the same name, and co-founder of Glasstown Entertainment, where she also serves as the president of production. Glasstown Entertainment has a first-look deal with Amazon Studios where they are currently in development on projects like I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Rishi and Havenfall by Sara Holland, being adapted by Evan Daughtery and co-producing with Weed Road Pictures. Oliver's first bestselling novel, Before I Fall, was acquired by Awesomeness Films and adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year. Her other YA novels include the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, Vanishing Girls, Broken Things, and the Replica duology. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages, and sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.
Oliver is a 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers and the New York Times bestselling Curiosity House series, co-written with H.C. Chester. Her newest middle-grade novel, The Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street, was published February 11, 2020 by Harper Children's book division; it was a Junior Library Guild selection and garnered three pre-publication starred reviews. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms, a Los Angeles Times bestseller.Before I Fall (2016)
Panic (announced)
Delirium (TV Movie) (2014) - Writer
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Neil Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.
As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Mary Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alan Moore.
Gaiman also wrote episodes of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, during Matt Smith's as the Doctor.American Gods (TV Series)(2017)
The Graveyard Book (????)
Stardust (2007)- Writer
- Executive
Beverly Lewis is known for Saving Sarah Cain (2007), The Reckoning (2015) and The Confession (2013).The Reckoning (TV Movie) (2015)
The Confession (TV Movie) (2013)
The Shunning (TV Movie) (2011)
Saving Sarah Cain (2007)- Writer
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- Actress
Anne Rice began life in New Orleans as Howard Allen O'Brien, named after her father, as the second of four daughters of Howard and Katherine Allen O'Brien. She decided to call herself "Anne" when she enrolled in first grade at the Redemptorist Catholic School. Her mother (who had long suffered from alcoholism) died when Anne was nearly fifteen. Her father remarried and soon relocated the family to Richardson (suburb of Dallas), Texas. She graduated in 1959 and entered Texas Woman's University where she completed two years of school in one. In 1960, Anne moved to San Francisco, where she took a furnished apartment in the Haight-Ashbury district. In 1961, Anne married Stan Rice (whom she had met in High School and who had proposed by telegram from Texas) and, in 1962, they were both living in Haight-Ashbury. They graduated from San Francisco State in 1964, she in political science, he in creative writing. Their daughter, Michele, was born on September 21, 1966. In 1969, they moved to Berkeley. There, she wrote a short story, "Interview With the Vampire". In 1970, Michele was diagnosed with leukemia. In 1972, Anne received her M.A. in creative writing; Michele died August 5. The next year, Anne turned "Interview" into a novel, and, over a year later, Knopf offered her a $12,000 advance for it. Christopher Rice was born on March 11, 1978. In 1980, they moved to San Francisco's Castro District. "The Vampire Lestat" brought a $100,000 advance from Knopf. In 1988, they moved to New Orleans and bought a mansion in the Garden District. Stan (who had chaired the creative writing program at S.F. State) turned to painting. "The Witching Hour" brought a $5 million advance. In 1994, "Interview" was very successfully released as a movie (amid much controversy -- some over content, mostly over casting) and Anne entered into a $17 million contract for three more Vampire Chronicles.The Young Messiah (2016)
Queen of the Damned (2002)
Earth Angels (TV Movie)(2001)
Feast of All Saints (TV Movie) (2001)
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
Exit to Eden (1994)- Writer
- Producer
Cormac McCarthy was born on 20 July 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Road (2009), No Country for Old Men (2007) and The Counselor (2013). He was married to Jennifer Claire Winkley, Anne DeLisle and Lee Holleman. He died on 13 June 2023 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.Child of God (2013)
The Road (2009)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
All the Pretty Horses (2000)- Writer
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- Additional Crew
E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fan girl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian's point of view. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.
E L James has been recognized as one of Time magazine's "Most Influential People in the World" and Publishers Weekly's "Person of the Year." Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on The New York Times Best Seller List for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS's The Great American Read (2018). Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award.
She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third installment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People's Choice Award for Drama in 2018. E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)- Writer
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James Dashner is known for The Maze Runner (2014), Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018).The Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
The Maze Runner (2014)- C.S. Lewis was born in 1898 and brought up in a very strict, religious household. While he was quite young, his mother died of cancer but the "stiff upper lip" in favour at the time meant he wasn't allowed to grieve. He became an Oxford don and led a sheltered life. He seriously questioned his religious beliefs and finally left the church. The death of his mother is reflected in "The Magician's Nephew". When an American fan Joy Gresham, came to visit him, they found they enjoyed each others company and she stayed. She was dying of cancer and he was afraid to express his emotions until she convinced him that it was OK to "allow" himself to love her even though it would shortly lead to heartbreak when she died. This was a great writer who dared to examine his emotions and beliefs and record them for the rest of us. Most famous for his childrens book (The Narnian Chronicles) he also wrote a very interesting Science Fiction Trilogy and some of the most intriguing Christian literature. He finally resolved his crisis of faith after tearing apart and fully examining the Christian (and other) religion and re-embraced Christianity.The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair (announced)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - Writer
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Philippa Gregory was born on 9 January 1954 in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a writer and producer, known for The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), The White Queen (2013) and A Respectable Trade (1998). She is married to Anthony Mason. She was previously married to Paul Carter and Peter Chislett.The White Queen (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2003)
A Respectable Trade (TV Mini-Series) (1998)- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
James Patterson was born on 22 March 1947 in Newburgh, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Alex Cross (2012), Kiss the Girls (1997) and Along Came a Spider (2001). He has been married to Susan Patterson since 24 July 1997. They have one child.Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (novel)(2016)
Zoo (Tv Series) (2015-16)
Alex Cross (novel "Cross")(2012)
Sundays at Tiffany's (TV Movie) (2010)
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (TV Movie) (2005)
1st to Die (TV Movie) (2003)
Along Came a Spider (novel)(2001)
Miracle on the 17th Green (TV Movie) (1999)
Kiss the Girls (novel)(1997)
Child of Darkness, Child of Light (TV Movie) (novel "Virgin") (1991)- Virginia C. Andrews was born on 6 June 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for The Dollanganger Saga (2014), Flowers in the Attic (1987) and V.C. Andrews' Heaven (2019). She died on 19 December 1986 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.My Sweet Audrina (TV Movie) (2016)
Seeds of Yesterday (TV Movie) (2015)
If There Be Thorns (TV Movie) (2015)
Petals on the Wind (TV Movie) (2014)
Flowers in the Attic (TV Movie) (2014)
Rain (novel)(2006)
Flowers in the Attic (1987) - Writer
- Producer
- Actor
R.L. Stine was born on 8 October 1943 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Goosebumps (2015), Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021) and Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021). He has been married to Jane Stine since 22 June 1969. They have one child.Goosebumps (2015)
Eye Candy (2015)
Mostly Ghostly (Video) (2008)
Superstitious (1999)
Goosebumps (TV Series) (1998)- Lois Duncan was born on 28 April 1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer, known for I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) and Down a Dark Hall (2018). She was married to Don Arquette and Joseph "Buzz" Cardozo. She died on 15 June 2016 in South Sarasota, Florida, USA.I Know What You Did Last Summer (2017)
Down a Dark Hall
Stranger with My Face (TV Movie) (2009)
Hotel for Dogs (2009)
Held for Ransom (novel "Ransom")(2000)
Don't Look Behind You (TV Movie) (1999)
I've Been Waiting for You (TV Movie) (novel "Gallows Hill")(1998)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Killing Mr. Griffin (TV Movie) (1997)
Stranger in Our House (TV Movie) (novel "Summer of Fear")(1978) - Writer
- Producer
- Actor
A graduate of Mississippi State University and Ole Miss Law School, John Grisham obtained his law degree in 1981 and practiced law for about 10 years, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1983 and served until 1990. He gave up his law practice to write full-time. He began writing in 1984, and three years later finished his first novel, "A Time To Kill", published by Wynwood Press in June 1988. He is the best-selling author of "A Time to Kill", "The Firm", "The Pelican Brief" and "The Client". He lives with his wife and their two children on a farm in Oxford, Mississippi.The Firm (2012)
Christmas with the Kranks (novel "Skipping Christmas")(2004)
Runaway Jury (2003)
A Painted House (TV Movie) (2003)
The Rainmaker (1997)
The Chamber (1996)
A Time to Kill (1996)
The Client (1994)
The Pelican Brief (1993)
The Firm (1993)- Writer
- Actress
- Script and Continuity Department
Katherine Paterson was born on 31 October 1932 in Qing Jiang, China. She is a writer and actress, known for Bridge to Terabithia (2007), The Flint Heart and The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015). She has been married to John Paterson since 1962. They have four children.The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Lyddie (TV Movie) (1993)
Jacob Have I Loved (TV Movie) (1989)
Bridge to Terabithia (TV Movie) (1985)- Writer
- Producer
Jodi Picoult was born on 19 May 1966 in the USA. She is a writer and producer, known for My Sister's Keeper (2009), Wish You Were Here and Change of Heart. She has been married to Timothy Warren van Leer since 18 November 1989. They have three children.Salem Falls (TV Movie) (2011)
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
The Tenth Circle (TV Movie) (2008)
Plain Truth (TV Movie) (2004)
The Pact (TV Movie) (2002)- Writer
- Producer
- Music Department
Ian McEwan was born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Atonement (2007), The Good Son (1993) and Enduring Love (2004). He has been married to Annalena McAfee since 1997. He was previously married to Penny Allen.On Chesil Beach (2017)
Atonement (2007)
Enduring Love (2004)
The Innocent (1993)
The Cement Garden (1993)
The Comfort of Strangers (1990)- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is known for Alice Upside Down (2007), Shiloh (1996) and Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season (1999).Alice Upside Down (2007)
Saving Shiloh (2006)
Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season (1999)
Shiloh (1996) - Natalie Babbitt was born on 28 July 1932 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. She was a writer, known for The Eyes of the Amaryllis (1982), Tuck Everlasting (2002) and The Eyes Of The Amaryllis. She was married to Samuel Fisher Babbitt. She died on 31 October 2016 in Hamden, Connecticut, USA.Tuck Everlasting (2002)
The Eyes of the Amaryllis (1982)
Tuck Everlasting (1981) - Writer
- Additional Crew
Born in Manchester, England on November 24 1849, Frances Eliza Hodgson was the eldest daughter in a family of two boys and three girls. After her father's death when she was three years old, the Hodgsdons experienced severe financial difficulties. As a young girl, she would scrawl little stories on sheets of old notebooks, as she was unable to afford proper writing materials. In 1865 the family moved to Tennessee where they lived in a log cabin and the teenage Frances set up a little school. She began submitting stories to women's magazines and in a time when most women did not have careers, Frances Eliza Hodgsdon was a literary success. In 1873 she married Dr. Swan Burnett and they had two sons -- Lionel, born 1874, and Vivian, born 1876 -- but the marriage was not a happy one. Her younger son, Vivian, clamoured for something for little boys to read, so Frances wrote "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and modeled the main character after him. In 1890 tragedy struck when her eldest son, Lionel, died of influenza. Frances and Swan separated and finally divorced in 1898, and she went on to remarry Stephen Townshend. Frances moved to Long Island, New York in 1901 and there began to write her two most famous stories -- "A Little Princess" and "The Secret Garden", inspired by her poor childhood and her love for gardening. She became rather eccentric in her old age, but delighted in her grandchildren. Frances Hodgson Burnett died on 29 October 1924.The Misselthwaite Archives (TV Series) (novel "The Secret Garden" (2015)
A Little Princess (serveral Movies & TV Shows from 1917-2009)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Secret Graden
Little Princess Sarah
Little Princess Cedie- Writer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Dahl was born in Wales in 1916. He served as a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He made a forced landing in the Libyan Desert and was severely injured. As a result, he spent five months in a Royal Navy hospital in Alexandria. Dahl is noted for how he relates suspenseful and sometimes horrific events in a simple tone.The BFG
Willy wonka and he chocolate factory
the witches
jackanory
james and the giant peach
Matilda
fantastic mr. fox- Louisa May Alcott was born on 29 November 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer, known for Little Women (2019), Little Women (1994) and An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949). She died on 6 March 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Little Women
Little Men
The Inheritance
An old- fashioned girl - Writer
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- Actress
Charlaine Harris was born on 25 November 1951 in Tunica, Mississippi, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for A Place Among the Dead (2020), True Blood (2008) and Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek (2020).True Blood(TV Series)(2008-2014)-Sookie Stackhouse Novels
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries:(TV Movies)
-A Bone to Pick (2015)
-Real Murders (2015)
-Three Bedrooms,One Corpse(2016)
-The Julius House (2016)
-Dead Over Heels (2017)
-A Bundle of Trouble (2017)
-Last Scene Alive (2018)
-Reap What You Sew(2018)
-The Disappearing Game (2018)
Midnight, Texas (TV Series) (2017-)- Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author with roots in Scotland. She lost her mother at an early age, and was raised by her maternal grandparents. She began to keep a diary and discovered at the age of 10 that she could write poetry. After college she became a teacher but kept writing. In 1908 her first novel, "Anne of Green Gables", was published after having been rejected by several publishers. It was a success. She followed up with a whole series of novels about Anne, and many other stories as well, including a second series starting with "Emily of New Moon". The novels about Anne and Emily are semi-autobiographical and contain many of her own memories from the 1880s and 1890s on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Her novels have been published in over 40 languages, and Anne is known all over the world. Mongomery's books are particularly popular in Japan.Anne of Green Gables
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(1952) TV series
(1956) TV Movie
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(1972) TV series
(1985) TV Mini-Series
(2016)
(Film Musical) Announced
Anne of the Windy Poplars (1940)
Anne of Avonlea (TV Series)(1975)
Road to Avonlea (TV Series)(1990-1996)
Emily of New Moon (TV Series) (1998-2000)
Anne with an "E" (TV Series)(2017- )
AOGG:The Sequel(1987) TV Mini-Series
AOGG:The Continuing Story(2000)TV Mini-Series
Road to Avonlea (TV Movie) (1990)
An Avonlea Christmas (TV Movie) (1998)
AOGG: A New Beginning (2008) TV Movie
AOGG:The Good Stars (2017) TV Movie
AOGG:Fire & Dew(2017) TV Movie
Lantern Hill (TV Movie) (1989) - Writer
- Producer
Sophie Kinsella was born on 12 December 1969 in London, England, UK. She is a writer and producer, known for Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Can You Keep a Secret? (2019) and Remember Me?. She has been married to Henry Wickham since 1991. They have four children.The Undomestic Goddess (announced)
Can You Keep a Secret? (2019)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Jeff Kinney is known for Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010), Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012) and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011). He is married to Julie Kinney. They have two children.2017 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
2011 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2010 Diary of a Wimpy Kid- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
George R.R. Martin is an American novelist and short-story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, a screenwriter, and television producer. He is known for his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO dramatic series Game of Thrones (2011).
Martin serves as the series' co-executive producer, and also scripted four episodes of the series. In 2005, Lev Grossman of Time called Martin "the American Tolkien".Game of Thrones (2011-)
Wildcards (Announced)
Night Flyers(1987)- Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775, to the local rector, Rev. George Austen (1731-1805), and Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827). She was the seventh of eight children. She had one older sister, Cassandra. In 1783 she went to Southampton to be taught by a relative, Mrs. Cawley, but was brought home due to a local outbreak of disease. Two years later she attended the Abbey Boarding School in Reading, reportedly wanting to follow her sister Cassandra, until 1786.
Jane was mostly educated at home, where she learned how to play the piano, draw and write creatively. She read frequently and later came to enjoy social events such as parties, dances and balls. She disliked the busy life of towns and preferred the country life, where she took to taking long walks.
In 1801 Jane, her parents and sister moved to Bath, a year after her father's retirement, and the family frequented the coast. While on one of those coastal holidays she met a young man, but the resulting romantic involvement ended tragically when he died. It is believed by many astute Austen fans that her novel, "Persuasion", was inspired by this incident.
Following her father's passing in January of 1805--which left his widow and daughters with financial problems--the family moved several times until finally settling into a small house, in Chawton, Hampshire, owned by her brother Edward, which is reminiscent of "Sense and Sensibility". It was in this house that she wrote most of her works.
In March of 1817 her health began to decline and she was forced to abandon her work on "Sanditon", which she never completed. It turned out that she had Addisons disease. In April she wrote out her will and then on May 24th moved with Cassandra to Winchester, to be near her physician. It was in Winchester she died, in the arms of her sister, on Friday, 18 July 1817, at the age of only 41. She was buried the 24th of July at Winchester Cathedral. Jane never married.
During her formative years, Jane wrote plays and poems. At 14 she wrote her first novel, "Love and Freindship [sic]" and other juvenilia. Her first (unsuccessful) submission to a publisher, however, was in 1797 titled "First Impressions" (later "Pride and Prejudice"). In 1803 "Susan" (later "Northanger Abbey") was actually sold to a publisher for a mere £10 but was not published until 14 years later, posthumously. Her first accepted work was in 1811 titled "Sense and Sensibility", which was published anonymously as were all books published during her lifetime. She revised "First Impressions" and published it entitled "Pride and Prejudice" in 1813. "Mansfield Park" was published in 1814, followed by "Emma" in 1816, the same year she completed "Persuasion" and began "Sanditon", which was ultimately left unfinished. Both "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey" were published in 1818, after her death.Pride and Prejudice
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1980 TV Series
1995 Mini
2003
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2014 Mini
Emma
1948 TV
1960 Mini
1872 TV Series
1996
1996 TV
2009 Mini
Persuasion
1960 Mini
1971 TV Series
2007
2019
Sense and Sensibility
1971 TV Series
1981 TV Series
1995
2008 Mini
2014
Mansfield Park
1983 TV series
1999
2007
Northanger Abbey
2007
Love & Friendship (Lady Susan)
2016 - Writer
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Cecelia Ahern was born on 30 September 1981 in Dublin, Ireland. She is a writer and producer, known for Love, Rosie (2014), P.S. I Love You (2007) and Samantha Who? (2007). She has been married to David Keoghan since 11 June 2010. They have three children.P.S. I love you
Where the Rainbow ends (Love,Rosie)(2014)- Writer
- Actor
John Irving was born on 2 March 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for The Cider House Rules (1999), The Door in the Floor (2004) and The World According to Garp (1982). He has been married to Janet Turnbull since 1987. They have one child. He was previously married to Shyla Leary.The Door in the Floor(A Widow for One Year")2004
The Cider House Rules 1999
Simon Birch (A Prayer For Owen Meany) 1998 The Hotel New Hampshire 1984
The World According to Garp 1982- Edith Wharton (née Jones) was an American novelist and short story writer from New York City. She had insider knowledge of New York's upper class, which she realistically portrayed in her works. In 1921, Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She won the award for her historical novel "The Age of Innocence" (1920), where she portrayed the rigid worldview of the 1870s aristocrats of New York. She spend the last few decades of her life as an expatriate in France.
In 1862, Wharton was born in New York City. Her parents were George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander. The Joneses were a wealthy and well-connected family in New York, having earned their wealth through real estate business. Through her mother, Wharton was a great-granddaughter of Lieutenant Colonel Ebenezer Stevens (1751 -1823), an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Through her father, Wharton was a first cousin, once removed, of the famed socialite Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1830 - 1908). Astor was the de facto leader of the "Four Hundred", an informal grouping of New York's wealthy socialites who were seen as "champions of old money and tradition".
From 1866 to 1872, Wharton and her family made extensive travels across Europe. During her stay in Europe, Wharton became a fluent speaker in French, German, and Italian. She was educated by tutors and governesses. She also loved to read the books in her father's library, though her mother forbade her to read novels.
In 1871, Wharton faced the first crisis of her life. During an extended visit in the Black Forest of Germany, Wharton suffered from typhoid fever. The disease almost killed her. In 1872, the Joneses returned to the United States. They divided their time between New York City (in the winter) and Newport, Rhode Island (in the summer).
From an early age, Wharton started writing her own fictional works. By 1873, she had written an incomplete novel. In 1877, Wharton publisher her first work. It was an English translation of the German poem "Was die Steine Erzählen" ("What the Stones Tell") by Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827 -1894). She was paid 50 dollars for her work, the first money she earned as a writer.
She had to use a pseudonym for her first published work, at the insistence of her parents. A writing career was out-of-the-question for proper "society women" of this era. Also in 1877, Wharton completed the novella "Fast and Loose". In 1878, she had a collection of her poems and translations privately published by her father. In 1879, one of her pseudonymous poems was published in the "New York World". In 1880, five of her poems were published in the literary magazine "Atlantic Monthly". Her family and her social circle discouraged her from continuing her promising literary career. Wharton did not write anything of note between 1880 and 1889, when one of her poems was published in "Scribner's Magazine".
In 1879, Wharton came out as a debutante at the age of 17. She soon was courted by Henry Leyden Stevens, son of the prosperous hotel owner Paran Stevens. Her family disapproved her new relationship. In 1881, Wharton and her family returned to Europe. George Jones' health had started failing, and he hoped that a stay in Europe would help him recover. In 1882, he died in Cannes, France due to a stroke.
In 1882, Wharton and her widowed mother returned to the United States. Wharton was briefly engaged to her persistent suitor Henry Leyden Stevens, but the engagement was canceled without any known explanation. In 1883, Wharton started living separately from her mother Lucretia. Lucretia had decided to settle permanently in France, where she lived until her death in 1901.
In 1885, Wharton married the sportsman Edward Robbins "Teddy" Wharton, who was 12 years older than her. The two of them shared a love of travel. Between 1886 and 1897, the couple spent several months each year in Europe. Their favorite destination was Italy; Wharton retained a love of this country for decades.
In the late 1880s, Teddy suffered from acute depression. As the years passed and his mental state declined, the couple ceased their extensive travels. They spent most of their time at "The Mount", their country house in Lenox, Massachusetts. Wharton herself reportedly struggled with asthma and bouts of depression in the late 19th century.
From 1908 to 1909, Wharton had a mid-life extramarital affair with the journalist William Morton Fullerton (1865 -1952). In 1913, Wharton divorced Teddy. Their marriage had lasted for 28 years, but caring for a chronically depressed man had taken its toll on her.
In 1911, as her marriage deteriorated, Wharton decided to move permanently to Paris, France. During World War I (1914-1918), Wharton supported the French war effort. In 1914, Wharton opened a workroom for unemployed women. In 1914, she helped set up the American Hostels for Refugees, to care for Belgian war refugees in France. In 1915. she helped found the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee, which sheltered about 900 Belgian refugees.
In 1915, Wharton wrote articles about France's front-lines. She regularly visited the trenches of the Western Front to get a first-hand view of the war, and was within earshot of artillery fire. Her articles were collected in the non-fiction book "Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort" (1915).
In 1916, President Raymond Poincaré appointed Wharton a chevalier (knight) of the Legion of Honour, the country's highest award, in recognition of her dedication to the war effort. During the war, she helped in the founding of tuberculosis hospitals. In 1919, following the war's end, Wharton decided to leave Paris and to settle in the French countryside. She purchased Pavillon Colombe, an 18th-century house located in Saint-Brice-sous-Foret. It remained her main residence until her death.
In 1921, Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction though her win was controversial. The three fiction judges employed for the contest voted that the award should be given to Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951). Columbia University's advisory board overturned their decision and decided that the winner was Wharton. Wharton was also nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1927, 1928, and 1930), without ever winning.
In 1934, Wharton published her autobiography under the title "A Backward Glance". The work is noted for omitting some of the more difficult aspects of her life, which became known after Wharton's death. Among these omitted aspects were Wharton's rather poor relationship with her mother Lucretia, the personal problems which she faced while married with Teddy, and her extramarital affair with Fullerton.
In June 1937, Wharton was working on a revised edition of an older work, when she suffered a heart attack. She recovered, but suffered a stroke in August of the same year. She died due to the stroke, at the age of 75. She was buried in the American Protestant section of the Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles. She was given war hero honors at her funeral.
Wharton remains one of the most celebrated American writers of the 20th century, in large part due to her astute criticism of the 19th-century upper class, and her vivid depictions of a world that was long gone even when she wrote her novels. Her prose works remain in print, while her poetry is largely forgotten.
2000 The House of Mirth
1999 Passion's Way (TV Movie)
1995 The Buccaneers (TV Mini-Series)
1993 The Age of Innocence
1993 Ethan Frome
1990 The Children
1983 Shades of Darkness (TV Series)
1983 The House of Mirth (TV Movie)
1981 Great Performances (TV Series)
1960 The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series)
1960 Ethan Frome
1956 Matinee Theatre (TV Series)
1954 Ponds Theater (TV Series)
1953 General Electric Theater (TV Series)
1952 Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series)
1951 Lights Out (TV Series)
1951 The Ford Theatre Hour (TV Series)
1939 The Old Maid
1934 Strange Wives ("Bread Upon the Waters")
1934 The Age of Innocence
1929 The Marriage Playground ("The Children")
1924 The Age of Innocence
1923 The Glimpses of the Moon
1918 The House of Mirth - Charles Portis was born on 28 December 1933 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He was a writer, known for True Grit (2010), True Grit (1969) and Gringos. He died on 17 February 2020 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.2010 True Grit (novel)
1978 True Grit: A Further Adventure (TV Movie)
1970 Norwood
1969 True Grit - Writer
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Anna Todd (writer/producer/influencer) is the New York Times best-selling author of the After series, which has been released in 35 languages and has sold more than twelve million copies worldwide-becoming a #1 best-seller all over the world. Todd is also the author of The Spring Girls and The Stars Series, which includes The Falling, The Burning, and the upcoming conclusion to the series, Infinite Light Of Dust. Always an avid reader, Todd began writing stories on her phone through Wattpad, with After becoming the platform's most-read series with over two billion reads. She has served as a producer and screenwriter on the film adaptations of After and After We Collided, and in 2017, she founded the entertainment company Frayed Pages Media to produce innovative and creative work across film, television, and publishing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her son in Los Angeles.- Writer
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Jenny Han is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the To All the Boys I've Loved Before series and The Summer I Turned Pretty series.
She is the creator and co-showrunner of The Summer I Turned Pretty series on Prime Video. She's an executive producer on the films To All the Boys I've Loved Before, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, and To All the Boys: Always and Forever, all on Netflix. She's also the creator and co-showrunner of XO Kitty, a To All the Boys spinoff series. Her books have been published in more than thirty languages.- Writer
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Kristin Hannah was born on 25 September 1960 in Garden Grove, California, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Firefly Lane (2021), The Things We Do for Love and Home Front.- Elizabeth Gaskell was born on 29 September 1810 in Chelsea, London, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Heartstrings (1923), Cranford (2007) and North & South (2004). She was married to Rev. William Gaskell. She died on 12 November 1865 in Holybourne, Hampshire, England, UK.Cranford (TV Series)
- Return to Cranford: Part One
1999 Wives and Daughters (TV Mini-Series)
1982 Cousin Phillis (TV Series)
1975 North & South (TV Mini-Series)
1972 Cranford (TV Series)
1971 Wives and Daughters (TV Mini-Series)
1966 North and South (TV Mini-Series)
1964 Mary Barton (TV Series)
1949 Your Show Time (TV Series)- The Manchester Marriage (1949)
1923 Heartstrings (novel "A Manchester Marriage")
1923 The Sins of a Father - Writer
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- Actor
Rick Riordan was born on 5 June 1964 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023), Kane Chronicles and The 39 Clues.2010 Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2017 Percy Jackson
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV Series) (novel) (announced)
Percy Jackson: Return to Camp Half Blood (Short) (novels) (pre-production)
2020 Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse
Percy Jackson and the Olympians- Writer
- Producer
Philippa Gregory was born on 9 January 1954 in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a writer and producer, known for The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), The White Queen (2013) and A Respectable Trade (1998). She is married to Anthony Mason. She was previously married to Paul Carter and Peter Chislett.2020 The Spanish Princess (TV Mini-Series) (novel "The Constant Princess")
2017 The White Princess (TV Mini-Series) =
2013 The White Queen (TV Mini-Series) (novels "The White Queen", "The Red Queen" and "The Kingmaker's Daughter" )
2008 The Other Boleyn Girl (novel)
2003 The Other Boleyn Girl (TV Movie) (novel)- Born Laura Elizabeth Ingalls in Wisconsin in 1867, she spent her childhood as a "pioneer girl, " settling in Wisconsin (twice), Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota by the time she was twelve years old. Her family stayed in South Dakota, or Dakota Territory as it was known, and in 1885, she married Almanzo Wilder. She called him "Manly" and he called her "Bess". The following year, they had a daughter, Rose, later to become the author Rose Wilder Lane. In 1894, the three of them left De Smet and traveled to the Ozark mountains of Missouri, where they settled in the town of Mansfield. Laura and Manly remained there for the rest of their lives. In the 1930's and 1940's, encouraged and aided by Rose, Laura set pen to paper and wrote a series of books about her childhood on the frontier. Called the "Little House" books, they were published every year or so from 1932 to 1943, describing Laura's experiences from her earliest memories of the big woods of Wisconsin and the Kansas prarie to the golden year in which she married Almanzo. The books were immensely popular with children, for whom they were written, and adults alike. Except for the occasional book tour, Laura's life as a farm wife in Mansfield still remained relatively unchanged, however, though she did receive much more mail than she ever had before! She died in 1957, shortly after her 90th birthday. Even after her death, Rose found more of her writings. These included a diary she kept detailing the journey to Mansfield in 1894, letters she wrote to Almanzo while visiting Rose in San Francisco in 1915, and even a new, unfinished "Little House" book, about the first four years after her marriage to Almanzo. Her major contribution to movies and television has been her books, for they were the inspiration for the long-running TV series "Little House on the Prairie" (1974-1983), and its various TV-movie sequels. Currently (1999), a TV-movie entitled "Beyond the Prarie," is in production. It purports to be "the true story of Laura Ingalls Wilder."Almanzo Wilder: Life Before Laura
2005 Little House on the Prairie (TV Mini-Series)
1984 Little House: Bless All the Dear Children (TV Movie)
1984 Little House: The Last Farewell (TV Movie)
1983 Little House: Look Back to Yesterday (TV Movie)
Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) 1974 - 1983) (based upon the "Little House" series
1979 Little House Years (TV Movie) (novels)
1975 Laura the Prairie Girl (TV Series) (novel) - 2019 The Sun Is also a Star
2017 Everything, Everything - Writer
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Kate DiCamillo was born on 25 March 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for The Tale of Despereaux (2008), Flora & Ulysses (2021) and The Beatryce Prophecy.
The Magician's Elephant (novel)
The Tiger Rising (book)
2021 Flora & Ulysses (novel)
2013 Bink & Gollie: Two for One (book)
2008 The Tale of Despereaux (book)
2005 Because of Winn-Dixie (novel)- Writer
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Patricia MacLachlan was born on 3 March 1938 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Baby (2000), Journey (1995) and Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991). She was married to Robert MacLachlen. She died on 31 March 2022 in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, USA.Baby (2000)
Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End (1999)
Journey (1995)
Skylark (1993)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)- Writer
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C.J. Box is known for Big Sky (2020) and Joe Pickett (2021).Big Sky (2020)
Joe Pickett (2021)- Cecily von Ziegesar was born on 27 June 1970 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a writer, known for Gossip Girl: Acapulco (2013), Gossip Girl (2021) and Gossip Girl (2007).Gossip Girl
- Lisa Jane Smith, known professionally as L.J. Smith, is an American author of young-adult literature. Her books, which combine elements of the genres of horror, science fiction/fantasy, and romance, are populated with young and apparently-young human and supernatural characters locked in dark vs. light, good vs. evil conflict. A dark antagonist typically attempts to seduce a heroine into the darkness, and in some cases is instead reborn into the light. The popular Night World series adds a recurring reality-altering conspiracy theme, enlivened with "romantic soul mate scenarios."
Smith was born in Villa Park, Orange County, California. In interviews she has said she realized she wanted to be a writer sometime between kindergarten and first grade, "when a teacher praised a horrible poem I'd written", and began writing in earnest in elementary school. Smith received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1987, followed by teaching credentials in Elementary education and Special education from San Francisco State University. She taught kindergarten and special education for several years before becoming a full-time writer. Her first book, The Night of the Solstice, was published by MacMillan in 1987, followed by "Heart of Valor" in 1990, and the 4-volume "Vampire Diaries" series in 1991-2. Three trilogies followed: The Secret Circle (1992), The Forbidden Game (1994), and Dark Visions (1995). The first installment of her popular Night World series was published in 1996, followed by eight more over the next two years. In 1998, Smith began a decade-long hiatus from writing, returning in 2008 with a new Web site and a series of new short stories. The Vampire Diaries series was reissued in 2007, followed by re-printings of The Secret Circle trilogy and Night World series in 2008/2009. The Night of the Solstice and Heart of Valor were also reissued in 2008. Three new Vampire Diaries installments were published in 2009 and 2010, and three more are scheduled for release, according to the author's Web site. Smith lives in the San Francisco Bay area "with one dog, three cats, and about ten thousand books."Legacies (2018–2022)
The Vampire Diaries (2013–2018)
The Secret Circle (2009–2017) - Writer
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Margaret Atwood was born on 18 November 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a writer and producer, known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), Alias Grace (2017) and MaddAddam. She was previously married to Graeme Gibson and Jim Polk.- Born the son of an Opium Agent in Bengal, Eric Blair was educated in England (Eton 1921). The joined the British Imperial Police in Burma, serving until 1927. He then travelled around England and Europe, doing various odd jobs to support his writing. By 1935 he had adopted the 'pen-name' of 'George Orwell' and had written his first novels. He married in 1936. In 1937, he and his wife fought against the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. He produced some 3000 pages of essays and newspaper articles as well as several books and programs for the BBC.
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Nine House (in develpment) Shadow and Bone/ Six of Crows (2021-2023)- Writer
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Julia Quinn is known for Bridgerton (2020), Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023) and Lorraine (2001).The Duke and I, The Viscount that Loved Me, and Romancing Mr Bridgerton (Bridgerton Series)(2022-present)- Writer
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Sally Rooney is known for Normal People (2020), Conversations with Friends (2022) and Hollywood Insider (2018).Normal People & Conversations with Friends