Josephine Angelini (D) is the author of the Starcrossed-Series. She grew up in Boston with six sisters, her parents, and a brother, as the youngest and smallest of them. She says on her blog, her parents were sure she was a boy and wanted to call her Joseph. Well, as you can see, they were wrong, so her mother added an “ine”. She adds, she was fortunate she wasn't supposed to be called Ralph. Josephine Angelini loves Facebook and is very fast, thanks to her sisters.

Books: Starcrossed Trilogy, Worldwalker Series

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Katherine A. Applegate was born 1956 in Michigan and lived in different parts of the USA before she settled down in South California, where she and her husband and co-writer, M. Grant adopted an Asian girl.

Books: Remnants series, Making out, Miscallaneous

Katherine Kendall, The One and Only Ivan

Michael Grant was born 1954 into a military family. He visited 14 different schools in 6 different states and chose to be author so he can travel as much as he want.

Books: Gone series, The Magnificient 12 series, BZRK series, Soldier Girl Trilogy, Messenger of Fear

They wrote together: The Everworld series, the Animorphs series, Eve and Adam

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The author of paranormal, fantasy, science fiction and contemporary romance for YA, A and NA (the latter two under the name J. Lynn) lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. With her husband and her Jack Russel Loki. Mrs. Armentrout loves spending time with them as well as reading, writing and watching Zombie movies and pretending to do one of these activities. She started writing in school, to be more precise, in algebra classes.

Books “J. Lynn” Nephilim Rising Unchained, The Gamble Brothers Trilogy, Frigid, Obsession – an Arum Novel

 and the Wait for You Saga. 

Jennifer L. Armentrout: Scorched, Cursed, Don't Look back, The Dead List, The Covenant Series, The Lux Series, The Dark Elements Series, The Titan Series, The Problem with Forever and the Wicked Series. As well as 50 First times as a co-author.

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She was born in 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, and died  1817 in Winchester, Hampshire. Her novels gained importance after her death, especially after 1865 and in the 20th century. In her childhood, she and her six older siblings were encouraged by their parents to read and think. She and her only (older) sister, Cassandra, were sent to school, but after a nearly crucial disease and financial problems, they came back home. Jane spent most of her free time writing stories that would become Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey as well as other stories in notebooks. But she also attempted to do what ladies were supposed to do: taking care of the family, playing the piano, dancing etc. After her father died in Bath, the three woman of the family moved around a lot, until they settled down at Jane's brother, Edward, 1809. In her 30s, she published some of the books she wrote (Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park and her "darling child", Pride and Prejudice) all under a pseudonym. The rest were published after her death by her brother Henry (like Persuasion).

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Patricia Briggs (D) was born in Montana and lives in Washington State with a husband, children and horses. She writes Fantasy, Paranormal and Science Fiction books:

Hurog Duology, The Megan Thompson series, the Alpha and Omega series, the Raven Duology, The Hob, the Sianim series and some short fiction and anthologies.

www.patriciabriggs.com/

Charlotte Bronte was born 1816 in England, as a daughter of Rev. Patrick Bronte and Maria, his wife. They were five, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell, after they moved and their mother died. When Charlotte was 8, the four elder daughters were sent to a strict religious boarding school. She and her younger sister, Emily, were brought home soon after Maria and Elizabeth died of an illness. The siblings fled in a fantasy world, until Charlotte went to school again in 1831, only to come home to teach her sisters. 1835 she and Emily went to school again, she as governess, her sister as pupil. Emily got homesick and was succeeded by Anne.

After trying for working as a governess, both Emily and Charlotte gave up and decided to open a school with Anne, studied in Brussels and made the preparations. But it didn't work. In 1844, when they finally gave up, Charlotte discovered Emily's poems and published them with some her owns and Anne's under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Charlotte's first novel, The Professor, was rejected by the public, but her next, Jane Eyre, was a best-seller, just like Emily's first and only novel  Wuthering Heights  in 1847. In 1848, Charlotte and Anne revealed who they were. Charlotte began moving in literary circles after Branwell, Emily and Anne all died of tubacolosis. When Charlotte was proposed marriage, she refused because of a lack of love for Rev. Nicholls and her father's refusal. Her next novel Vilette was published. However, her father suddenly changed his mind and wanted her to marry the Rev., so she did. She finally died, pregnant, 1854, after having found a way to end her life through a pneumonia.

Rachel Caine (D) was born and raised in White Sands Missel Range, New Mexico, next to a training camp for the US-army. She had many jobs, including accounting, graphic designer, insurance investigation, corporate communications, and web design before becoming a full-time author 2010.

She wrote:

Rachel Caine: The Great Library Series, Prince of Shadows, Morganville Vampires Series, Weather Warden Series, Outcast Season, Revivalist Series, Red Letter Days Series, Athena Force Series

Roxanne Conrad: Bridge of Shadows, Copper Moon, Slow Burn, Cold Kiss, Red Angel, The Undead, The Shadow World Series, Exile TX

Julie Fortune: Stargate SG1

Anthologies: Carnie Punk, Chicks Kick Butt, Dark and Stormy Knights, X, Unbound, The Time of the Vampires, Monsters, My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, Strange Brew (with Patricia Briggs and others), Special Ops Romance, Shards and Ashes (with Veronica Roth and others), Naughty or Nice, Many Bloody Returns, Paranormal Romance, Kolchak The Night Stalker Casebook, Kicking it, Immortal (with P.C. & Kristin Cast & others), Hex Appeal, The Gods of L.P. Lovecraft, the Eternal Kiss, Enthralled, Dracula in London, Dead but not forgotten, Dark Duets

www.rachelcaine.com/

Rae Carson (D) started taking interest in stories at the age of three with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. And after she sneaked out of her classes in elementary school to read novels in the library, she found out she wanted to be an author: Her parents approved, but wanted her to have a backup plan. Moving a lot, Mrs. Carson had problems fitting in in school. But through cheerleading and making up rhymes etc., she finally found out that one can do anything if one really tries – because at first, she seriously was bad (as she says herself). In college, everything got better for her. After her decree in social science she tried a few jobs, none of them were to her liking. In the end, she quit in order to write books. As in full-time. Through an Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror she learned how to do what she wanted best – and met her future best friends and husband, for whom she moved from Carolina to Ohio.

Wrote: The Gold Seer Trilogy, Girl of Fire and Thorns Trilogy

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Kiera Cass, born in South Carolina, first wanted to be an actress. After following a boy to Radford University (what she regrets for the rest of her life), she started making music, studying history and communication. A boy talked her into moving to Blacksburg, marrying him and become a mother, or so she says on her blog. Thanks to a tragedy, she started writing - and couldn't stop. After some time with a hero who had exactly the same problems like her, she woke up with ideas for The Siren her first and very famous series she published and later on, The Selection. And a few other books who are to be written... Right now she's mother, New York Bestselling Author and very happy with her life, finally.

Books: The Siren, The Selection

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P. C. Cast is born in Midwest and shuttled back and forth between Illinois and Oklahoma. She (as she says herself) fell in love with horses and mythology, she joined the United States Airforce after Highschool and later on taught in HS fifteen years, than she got a full-time writer.

Books: Divine-Series, Goddess of Summoning-Series, Nocture Silouhette-Series, House of Night-Series, Young Adult Parthanon-Series, Immortal.

Anthologies: Mysteria, Immortal (with Kristin Cast & Rachel Caine)

Her daughter Kristin has a few stand alone's in books like anthologies like Kisses from Hell and Immortal, and teams up with her mother for the House of Nights, with Alyson Noel for Amber Smoke. Her only stand-alone series is the Escaped Series. She lives in Oklahoma, studies and tries to fulfil her dream in opening a no kill dog rescue shelter in Tulsa. 

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With City of Bones, the start other first series The Mortal Instruments, Cassandra Clare gets famous. She was born in Theran and lived the first 10 years of her life in England, France and Switzerland. Books became her best friends and she began to write The adventures of the beautiful Cassandra, at first just for making her classmates laugh, later on really things she wanted to publish. Right now she lives with her boyfriend and two cats in Brooklyn, NY. Oh it is right what she says on her website – Shadowhunters do look better in black ;)

Also wrote: Magisterium Series, Mortal Instruments Series, Infernal Devices Series, The Bane Chronicles, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, Dark Artifices Series, The Last Hours Series and verious guides to the world.

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Kresley Cole (D) lives in Florida with some animals and her husband and was an athlete, a coach and a graduated student before really settling to writing. She loves everything that has to do with water and travelling.

She wrote: The Immortals after Dark, The Game Makers Series and the Arcana Chronicles (starting with Poison Princess)

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Ally Condie (D) lives outside of Salt Lake City, together with her husband and four children. She adores books, reading, writing and her husband's music.

She wrote: the Yearbook-Trilogy, Being Sixteen, Freshman for President, Enthralle, Summerlost, Cassia & Ky Series, Atlantia Series

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Michael Crichton studied in Havard Medecine School, worked as a scientist and taught different courses (mostly writing and anthology) at Cambridge and MIT. A dinosaur he found was named after him. Michael Crichton had a lifelong interest in computers and published his first book still being a student at Havard. He was (and still is) one of the most sold authors with over 200 million copies of his different books, translated in 38 different languages. 13 of his novels have been made into film, one of it is the world famous Jurassic Park.

Mr Crichton was married and had two children, was born in Chicago 1942 and died 2008 in L.A.

Books: The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, Eaters of the Dead, The Great Train Robbery, Five Patients, Congo, Sphere, Travels, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear, Neft, Pirate Latitudes, Micro

John Lange: Odds On, Scratch One, Easy Go Venom Business, Zero Cool, Grave Descend, Drug of Choice, Binary

Jeffrey Hudson: A Case of Need

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Sarah Crossan grew up in England and Ireland before moving to New York and living there for seven years. She taught English before becoming a full-time writer and right now she lives in London and works in a room full of books, half-finished cups of tea and biscuits.

Books: The Weight of Water, Apple and Rain, Breathe Series, One

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