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Biographical Info About Authors in ABFFE Author Auction
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Judy Blume is one of the best loved -- and most frequently censored -- authors. Her novels for both kids and adults have sold over 75 million copies, including Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Superfudge; Blubber; Just As Long as We're Together; Forever; and, most recently, Summer Sisters. Her new book, Double Fudge, will be published by Dutton in September. |
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Katie Davis is the very popular author and illustrator of Who Hops? (Harcourt, 1998), an award-winning book for young children that was a selection of both the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club and the Junior Library Guild. It was followed by I Hate to Go to Bed! (1999) Who Hoots? (2000), and Scared Stiff (2001). Her forthcoming book from Harcourt is Party Animals (September). |
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Claudia Dreifus is nationally renowned for her interviews with the world's leading artists, entertainers, politicians, and spiritual leaders -- including the Dalai Lama, Benazir Bhutto, Colin Powell, and Toni Morrison. Studs Terkel has called her "a nonpareil of interviewers." A senior fellow at the World Policy Institute of the New School for Social Research, Dreifus is currently a writer for the "Science Times" section of the New York Times. Her latest book is Scientific Conversations: Interviews on Science from the New York Times (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2001). |
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Pete Hamill is one of the country's most distinguished journalists. Currently on the staff of The New Yorker magazine, Hamill has covered wars in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Lebanon, and Northern Ireland. He has been a columnist for the New York Post, the Daily News, and New York Newsday. He is also the author of eight novels, including Snow in August, two collections of short stories, and a bestselling memoir, A Drinking Life. |
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Ron Insana is one of the country's leading financial journalists. The co-anchor with Sue Herera of CNBC's signature program, Business Center, Insana is a regular contributor to NBC's Today Show, The Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, and Imus in the Morning. He was nominated for a Golden ACE Award for his role in covering the 1987 stock market crash. In 1999, Mr. Insana was named one of the top 100 business news journalists of the century by TJFR Group. He is the author of The Message of the Markets (HarperBusiness, 2000) and Traders' Tales (John Wiley, 1996). His forthcoming book is Trendspotting, also from Harper Business. |
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Songwriter and comedy writer Alan Katz is the author of Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs (McElderberry Books), a finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year Award. Katz has been a print and television comedy writer for more than 20 years. He has written television comedy for both children and adults and has received multiple Emmy nominations for his work on The Rosie ODonnell Show. His next book is I'm Still Here in the Bathtub: More Silly Dilly Songs. Like Take Me Out of the Bathtub, it will be illustrated by David Catrow. | ||||||||||||||||
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Leonard Marcus is a renowned historian of childrens literature as well as a editor, critic and author. His recent works include Side by Side: Five Favorite Picture Books Teams Go to Work, Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon and Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom. | ||||||||||||||||
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