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Sharon Draper is an American author, poet, and master educator. She has won many awards for teaching and written many books, poems, and short stories. She was a teacher in Cincinnati from 1970-1997 and became an author in 1991, which is the career she is currently pursuing. Her first piece was “One Small Torch”, a short story published in the Ebony magazine in 1991 as the winner of a short story contest with 20,000 entries. In her writing, she choses African-American male characters to give a voice to African-American young men.

Early life
Sharon Draper was born on August 21, 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. She was the eldest daughter of three kids in her family and grew up in a close-knit neighborhood.

Education
Sharon Draper earned her BA from Pepperdine University in 1971 and her MA from Miami University of Ohio in 1974

Teaching career
Sharon Draper was a teacher for the Cincinnati public schools from 1970-1997, and won the 1997 US Teacher of the Year award for her work in the schools. She has described teaching as her "calling and vocation,” and says that she "teaches because I must. It is in my heart and soul; part of the definition of me. I end up teaching wherever I am."

Books
Some of her published works include: 
 Tears of a Tiger, 1994.
 Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs, 1995.
 Forged by Fire, 1996.
 Romiette and Julio, 1997.
 Jazzimation, 1999.
 Teaching from the Heart, 1999.
 Not Quite Burned out but Crispy around the Edges, 2001.
 Darkness Before Dawn, 2001.
 Double Dutch, 2002.
 The Battle of Jericho, 2003.
 Copper Sun, 2006.
 November Blues, 2007
 Out of my Mind, 2010

Awards
Sharon Draper has won many awards in teaching and writing. She won Coretta Scott King Genesis award for Literature (1995), and American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults award (1995) in her writing career. She also won Ohio State Teacher of the Year (1997), U.S. National Teacher of the Year (1997), National Board Certification, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (1995), Board of Directors, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (1997), National Council of Negro Women's Excellence in Teaching Award (1997), and the Delta Kapa Gamma Honor Society for Women Educators.

References

 "Sharon M. Draper." Biography in Context. Gale, n.d. Web.
 "World Book Online Reference Center | Online Reference Book| Online Encyclopedia." World Book. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

Writers from Ohio
Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer who has written many successful books for a wide audience.  She gives a voice to those Americans in our community who are sometimes silenced or looked down upon. Ms. Woodson once said, "I feel compelled to write against stereotypes, hoping people will see that some issues know no color, class, sexuality…. I write from the very depths of who I am, and in this place there are all of my identities." Through her quotes and her books she inspires America to take a stand against stereotypes to make our world a better place.

Awards

Jacqueline Woodson is the recipient of the 2001 Corretta Scott King Award and a nominee for the 2002 National Book Award. 

2018 Jacqueline Woodson received Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the worlds largest prize for people writing childrens and youths literature. 

"Jacqueline Woodson introduces us to resilient young people fighting to find a place where their lives can take root. In language as light as air, she tells stories of resounding richness and depth. Jacqueline Woodson captures a unique poetic note in a daily reality divided between sorrow and hope." Citation of the jury

Early life

Jacqueline Woodson was born on February 12, 1963 in the town of Columbus, Ohio. Much of Jacqueline's writing later in life may have been inspired by her childhood.  Her books talk about the struggle to find a place to fit in,  and being accepted in society. In fifth grade she was the editor of her school’s magazine. Her seventh English teacher encouraged her to write, and told her she should pursue her dreams, which may have led to where Ms. Woodson is today.

Personal life

Many of Ms. Woodson’s books for older audiences touch on subjects she experienced growing up.  For example, she wrote about her parent’s struggling marriage, her brother’s struggles with homosexuality, and divisions based off of race in America which she had experienced first hand growing up as an African American in the Midwest.  Also, Ms. Woodson addresses the issue of confidence in young girls.  She says: “I write about all girls because I know what happens to self-esteem when we turn twelve, and I hope to show readers the number of ways in which we are strong."  Jacqueline uses her talent for writing and her experiences of the injustices and stereotypes in our country to promote awareness of important issues and give voices to the voiceless.

Books

Some books she has written include:
 Last Summer with Maizon (her first book)
 Martin Luther King Jr. and His Birthday (children's book)
 Autobiography of a Family Photo (for adults)
 Hush (for young adults)

References

 "World Book Online Reference Center | Online Reference Book| Online Encyclopedia." World Book. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.
 Authors and Artists for Young Adults, December 5, 2004, March 23, 2015

Writers from Ohio
Laurie Halse Anderson is an American author who has written many books. She writes fiction on many different subjects. She was born on October 23, 1961, in New York. As a young child, Anderson loved to listen to her father tell stories and poems. In 1983, Anderson married Gregory H. Anderson, a business executive. One year later in 1984, she earned her bachelor's degree from Georgetown university in Washington D.C. Anderson has published many books for young adults and children. She has written in many different genres as well. Some of Anderson’s most well known books include Speak, Fever 1793, and Catalyst. People appreciate her ability to capture the voices and attitudes of teenagers as they face personal problems in her books. In 2009, Anderson received the Margaret A. Edwards award for her contributions to young adult literature.

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Writers from New York
Judy Blume is an American author.

Early life
Judy Blume was born on February 12, 1936 to Rudolph and Esther Sussman. She was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Blume graduated with honors from her high school, Battin, and went on to Boston University. She was forced to quit college after a year because of a disease that caused her to have too many large white blood cells. She then transferred to New York University where she graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science in early childhood education. She then had two children, Randy Lee and Lawrence Andrew. Many of her books are about the challenge pre-teens face when growing up in middle-class America.

Publications
Judy Blume has written many books, mostly focusing on middle-class children and the problems they face in their lives.  Her most famous piece is Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.  She started out writing books meant only for adults, such as Wifey, Smart noen, and Summer Sisters.  As time passed, Blume began to write books for children, including:
 The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo
 Iggie's House
 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
 Then Again, Maybe I Won't
 Freckle Juice
 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
 It's Not the End of the World
 Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
 Deenie
 Blubber
 Forever
 Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
 Superfudge
 The Judy Blume Diary: The Place to Put Your Own Feelings
 Tiger Eyes
 The Pain and the Great One
 Just as Long as We're Together
 The Judy Blume Memory Book
 Fudge-A-Mania
 Here's to You, Rachel Robinson
 Places I Never Meant to Be (editor)
 Double Fudge 
 Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One 
 Going, Going, Gone! With the Pain and the Great One

Awards and publisher
Her books are published by Bradbury Press. Throughout her lifetime she has received many awards. Some of these include, the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Library of Congress Living Legends award.

References
 "Judy Blume." Newsmakers. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.
 Anderson, Celia Catlett. "Blume, Judy." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2015. Web.  23 Mar. 2015.

1936 births
Living people
New York University alumni
Writers from New Jersey
Marissa Meyer is well known for writing the Lunar Chronicles, which includes Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress. These books have parts of well known fairy-tales, but she added her own twist. The Lunar Chronicle books were very successful, Cinder, the first book in the series, made it onto the New York Times Best Sellers list.  In November 2015, the fifth in the Lunar Chronicle series will be published, Winter. Her most recently published book is Fairest, another book about fairytales. She even has many unfinished books lying around. She lives with her husband and three cats.

Early life 
Marissa Meyer was born on February 19, 1984. She grew up in Tacoma, Washington. When Meyer was 14 years old, she was introduced to anime and fan fiction. She was very interested in it and completed 40 stories under the name Alicia Blade. These stories were published on Fanfiction.net. She also wrote a novelette called The Phantom of Linkshire Manor. In 2007, the novelette was published in the Bound in Skin anthology.

Education 
Marissa Meyer went to Pacific Lutheran University, and got a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and children’s literature. At Pace University, she received her master’s degree in publishing. After she graduated, she became a book editor in Seattle. Later, she became a freelance typesetter and proofreader.

References

Writers from Washington
1984 births
Tamora Pierce is an American author. She was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania on December 13th, 1954. Tamora Pierce is the daughter of Wayne Pierce and Jacqueline Pierce, but her parents divorced. Her family moved from Pennsylvania to California many times. Tamora loved reading books as a child, and she started writing stories when she was in 6th grade. When she was a teenager, she stopped writing. One of her teachers motivated her to continue writing, and she started writing again as an adult.

Writing 
Tamora Pierce mainly writes fantasy books, but sometimes historical books. She enjoys writing series because of how the reader gets to live along with the characters. She likes writing books for teenagers. Many of her books have been translated into German, Danish, and Spanish.

Personal life
Tamora lives in New York, New York with her husband, 4 cats, parakeet, and sometimes rescued animals. She is interested in many topics which sometimes are included in her writing. Some topics she is interested in our culture, crime, wildlife, nature, historical events, and more.

Books

Song of the Lioness
 Alanna: The First Adventure (1983)
 In the Hands of the Goddess(1984)
 The Woman Who Rides Like a Man(1986)
 Lioness Rampant(1988)

Circle of Magic
 Wolf-Speaker(1994)
 The Emperor Mage(1995)
 The Realms of the Gods (1996)

The Immortals 
 Sandry’s Book (1996)
 Tris’s Book (1998)
 Daja’s Book (1998)
 Briar’s Book (1999)

Beka Cooper
 Terrier (2006)
 Bloodhound (2009)
 Mastiff (2011)

Protector of the Small
 First Test (1999)
 Page (2000)
 Squire (2001)
 Lady Knight (2002)

Circle Opens 
 Magic Steps (2000)
 Street Magic (2001)
 Cold Fire (2002)
 Shatterglass (2003)
 The Will of the Empress: The Circle Reforged (2005)
 Melting Stones (2008)
 Battle Magic (2013)

Awards

Alanna: The First Adventure 
 Author's Citation, Alumni Association of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1984

In the Hand of the Goddess 
 SchulerExpress ZDF Preis (Germany), 1985
 South Carolina Children's Book Award nomination, 1985- 86

Wolf Speaker 
 Children's Paperbacks Bestseller, Australian Bookseller and Publisher, 1995

The Emperor Mage 
 Best Books for Young Adults list, Hawaii State Library, 
 Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror list, Voice of Youth Advocates, both 1995, 
 Best Books for Young Adults list, American Library Association, 1996

The Realms of the Gods 
 Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror list, Voice of Youth Advocates, 1996
 Best Books for the Teen Age list, New York Public Library

References

 "Tamora Pierce." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.
 "Tamora Pierce." Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Vol. 26. Detroit: Gale, 1999. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

Writers from Pennsylvania
Ally Carter is the pen name of Sarah Leigh Fogleman (born January 1, 1974),  She went to Oklahoma State University and Cornell University. Carter began writing at age 12. She published her first book in 2005, Cheating at Solitaire. S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders made her interested in writing. Carter first was a screenwriter, then started writing novels. Some of her books were My True Love Gave to Me, Double Crossed, Learning to Play Gin and Cheating At Solitaire. She also wrote two series, the Gallagher Girls Books and Heist Society Books. All Fall Down came out on January 20, 2015 to start her new series, Embassy Row.

Carter writes about teenage spies and thieves. Her books have been sold in over 20 languages.  It takes her four to six weeks to write one story, but she spends much more time editing the stories. Her books have appeared on several best sellers lists, such as the New York Times, as well as sold over two million copies in the United States alone.

References

 "FAQS." Ally Carter. N.p., 28 May 2014. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. 
 "Detailed Bio." Ally Carter. N.p., 27 Jan. 2012. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. 
 "Ally Carter." Amazon.com: : Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. 
 "Q & A with Ally Carter." PublishersWeekly.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. 
 "Miss Erin." : WBBT Interview: Ally Carter. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

1974 births
Living people
Writers from Oklahoma
American bloggers
Raina Telgemeier was born May 26, 1977 in San Francisco, California. She has published many graphic novels for teenagers, including Smile, Drama, Sister, Baby Sitter Club Series, and X - men: Misfits. Telgemeier gets ideas for her stories from her life. For example, "Smile" came from her life. 

Telgemeier attended the School Of Visual Arts in New York City. She studied illustration. She graduated in 2002. Telgemeier met her husband, Dave Roman, at the School of Visual Arts. After graduating Telgemeier worked for a publisher in New York. But she was thinking about drawing her own books. She now lives and works in Queens, New York. Now, she is a famous cartoonist, animator, and novelist who has written many well known young adult novels.

Early life

Raina Telgemeier was born May 26, 1977 in San Francisco, California.  In her youth, Telgemeier was very interested in comics, and putting pictures and words together to make stories. As pictured in Smile, Telgemeier did have both front teeth knocked out in 6th grade.

Awards
Both her novels Smile and Sister have been #1 New York Times best sellers. Telgemeier has received an Eisner Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, a Stonewall Honor, and many Best Of and Notable lists for her popular works of literature.

References

Living people
1977 births
Writers from California
Kirsten Miller is an American author.

Early life
Kirsten Miller was born in 1973 in North Carolina. At age 17 she moved to New York City. Kirsten lives there now.

Books
Kirsten wrote the Kiki Strike series and All You Desire: Can You Trust Your Heart?. These are all novels aimed at young adults. The Kiki Strike series is about two girls who have gained access to catacombs, underground graveyards, and work on accessing the rest of their city. They used their girl scout skills. This series was written in 2006 and 2007. The Eternal Ones series is about a modern day high school girl who sees visions of herself, including one of her dying, in 1920’s New York City with a boy named Ethan Evans. After a lifetime of hearing and ignoring rumors of demons in her small town, she becomes involved with Iain Morrow in New York, who she thinks murdered her in a past life and is out to murder her again. These two books were written in 2010 and 2011.

Values
Kirsten is set apart from other authors by emphasizing the importance of “girl power”. She has chosen many female lead characters because she believes girls can make a change too.  She showed this by saying, “While the world wasn’t necessarily designed with young girls in mind, if a girl has a little ingenuity and a lot of confidence, she can make the world work to her advantage” in an teenreads.com interview in 2006.

References

 "Kirsten Miller." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.
 "Author Interview: June 2006." Author Interview: June 2006. Teenreads.com, June 2006. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. <http://www.teenreads.com/authors/kristen-miller/news/interview-060906>.

Writers from North Carolina
1973 births
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (February 10, 1930 – April 19, 2013) was an American writer.

Early life
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg was born on February 10, 1930 in New York. She was the daughter of Adolph, a businessman, and Beulah (Klein) Lobl. E.L. Konigsburg married a man named David Konigsburg in 1952. With David, she had three children, named Paul, Laurie, and Ross. She went to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Konigsburg was a follower of the Jewish religion.

Konigsburg is the author of many children’s books, some including The Outcast of 19 Schuyler Place, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and Silent to the Bone. She began her career as an author later in her life. She left teaching after the birth of her first child in 1955, and returned to teach again in 1960. She stopped teaching again two years later, to move to New York for her husband’s job. With all of her kids at school, she had time to begin her writing career.

Accomplishments
E. L Konigsburg is the only author to have two books on the Newbery List at one time. In addition, in 1967, her book was honored in the “Book Week Children’s Festival”. She also won the William Allen White award for From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Books
 Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
 About the B'nai Bagels. New York, Atheneum
 A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
 The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper
 The Second Mrs. Giaconda
 Father's Arcane Daughter
 Throwing Shadows (stories)
 Journey to an 800 Number
 Up from Jericho Tel
 Samuel Todd's Book of Great Colors
 Samuel Todd's Book of Great Inventions
 Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale's
 T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT, and Suit
 The View from Saturday

Sources
 "E(laine) L(obl) Konigsburg." Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults. Detroit: Gale, 2002.Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015 E(laine) L(obl) Konigsburg." St. James Guide to Children's Writers. Gale, 1999. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2 2015

Writers from New York
Wendy Mass is an American author who writes mainly for young adults and children. She was born on April 22, 1967 in Livingston, New Jersey, United States. She is most known for her young adult novel A Mango Shaped Space and Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life.

Personal life
Wendy Mass currently lives in Sparta New Jersey with her husband Michael, their twins Chloe and Griffin, and their two cats. Mass has lived in New Jersey as well as Los Angeles.

Education
Wendy Mass as a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University, a Masters degree from California State University, and has a Ph.D from Drew University.

Achievements
Wendy Mass has won the American Library Association (ALA) Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School in 2004 for her book A Mango Shaped Space. She also has been nominated for 74 state book awards. Many of her books have been translated into 14 different languages and several were recorded as audio books. One of her young adult novels Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life was adapted into a movie in 2011.

References

 "Wendy Mass." The Writers Directory. Detroit: St. James Press, 2014. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.
 "Wendy Mass." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

1967 births
Living people
American novelists
Writers from New Jersey
People from Livingston, New Jersey
Cynthia Kadohata is an American author, who has written many well known novels. A quote that expresses Cynthia Kadohata’s connection to writing and her books is “My memories become their memories, and their memories become mine.”

Major accomplishments
She won the 2005 Newbery medal, and she wrote a short fiction that has been seen in the New Yorker, Grand Street, and Pennsylvania Review. Her autobiographical novel on Japanese American life is also widely known and highly reviewed. Cynthia also earned a journalism degree at University of Southern California.

Early life/career
Cynthia Kadohata was born on July 02, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. Her family moved often to places including Illinois, Michigan, Georgia, Arkansas, and California, and this traveling and the ability to see many new places gave her inspiration for many of her books, especially The Floating World. In fact, in many parts Cynthia Kadohata’s actual life inspire and encourage her to write. 
Later in life, Cynthia adopted her son, Sammy. She was previously married but divorced in 2000.

Written works

Novels
 The Floating World, Viking (New York, NY), 1989.
 In the Heart of the Valley of Love, Viking (New York, NY), 1992.

Young-adult novels
 Kira-Kira, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2004.
 Weedflower, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2006.
 Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2007.
 Outside Beauty, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2008.
 A Million Shades of Gray, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2009.
 The Thing About Luck, illustrated by Julia Kuo, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2013.
 Half a World Away, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2014.
 Checked, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2018.

References

 “Cynthia Kadohata.” Contemporary Authors Online. Gale, 2014. Biography in Context. 23 March 2015. 
 "Cynthia Kadohata." Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Gale, 2006. Biography in Context. 23 March 2015. 
 Carlson, Ann D. "Kadohata, Cynthia." World Book Student. World Book, 2015. 23 Mar 2015.

Writers from Illinois
Louise Erdrich is an American author. She was born on June 7, 1954, in Minnesota. Erdrich lived in North Dakota as a child. Her mother is Chippewa. She has a German-American father. Louise incorporates Native American themes in her books. Major characters represent both sides of her heritage and background. She was married to Michael Anthony Dorris, who was a writer and professor of Native American studies at Dartmouth.

Accomplishments and Awards

Erdrich was named a  most beautiful person in People magazine. She was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2001 for her book The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. She received the award in 2012 for The Round House. She has written novels, short stories, poetry, and children's books. Some of these works are Love Medicine, Tracks, and The Plague of Doves. From 1972 to 1976, she attended Dartmouth College. She received the Academy of Poets Prize in 1975. She also received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976.

Sources

 "Louise Erdrich." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

Writers from Minnesota
1954 births
Living people
O. Henry Award winners
Emily Jenkins, also known as E. Lockhart is an American author. Jenkins was born in New York, New York on September 13, 1967. She writes in many genres such as children’s fiction and adult romance novels. She has even won the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Award twice. She has also written many respected young adult novels.

Early life
Jenkins has always dreamed of being an author. She once said, "Growing up, I spent large parts of my life in imaginary worlds: Neverland, Oz, and Narnia, in particular.” She loved reading and when she was eight, she began to develop her own work. After she wrote her own books, Jenkins became interested in writing full-length novel imitations of Pippi Long Stocking and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. She got inspiration for her later books like Five Creatures from her own life. She said, "I wanted to convey the sense of family I had with my pets." Jenkins has a husband, a daughter, and two cats. They all have different skills and preferences, but she used a Venn diagram to overlap their interests.

Jenkins continues to love spending her time living in her imaginary worlds, which she created within her books. She is an admired figure for many young writers and encourages them to pursue their dreams just as she did.

Books

 The Secret Life of Billie’s Uncle Myron
 Five Creatures
 Daffodil
 My Favorite Thing
 That New Animal
 Love You When You Whine
 What Happens on Wednesdays
 Skunkdog
 The Little BIt Scary People
 Sugar Would Not Eat It
 Hug, Hug, Hug!
 Num, Num, Num!
 Plonk, Plonk, Plonk!
 The Boyfriend List
 The Boy Book
 The Treasure Map of Boys
 Real Life Boyfriends
 Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything
 Dramarama
 The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
 How To be Bad
 We Were Liars
 Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Culture 
 Mister Posterior and the Genius Child
 Toy Dance Party: Being the Further Adventures of a Bossyboots Stingray, a Courageous Buffalo, and a Hopeful Round Someone Called Plastic

References

"Jenkins, Emily." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2015. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

Writers from New York
Jacqueline Kelly is an New Zealand-born American author of children's books.

Early life
Jacqueline Kelly was born in New Zealand. She moved to Vancouver Island in Canada at a young age. She moved again to El Paso, Texas where she went to high school and college in Galveston. She went on to get a law degree from the University of Texas. Before becoming a fictional author, she was a doctor and a lawyer.

Awards
For The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, she won the Newbery Honor Book designation, International Reading Association Award, Virginia Law Award, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and Judy Lopez Memorial Award, National Women's Book Association, all 2009, and Josette Frank Award, and the Bank Street College of Education.

Writing
 Short story in the Mississippi Review (2001)
 The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (2009)
 Return to the Willows (2012)

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate is set in 1899 and features eleven year old Calpurnia Tate. The novel documents her struggle with Texas heat, science, embroidery and her family. She falls in love with science by spending time with her grandfather, who is a scientist, and The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin. She thoroughly battles the expectations of respectable young ladies during the turn of the century.

Return to the Willows
Return to the Willows is written as a sequel to the Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

References

"Jacqueline Kelly." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.
Kelly, Jacqueline. "Jacqueline Kelly." Jacqueline Kelly. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.
"The Wind in the Willows." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

New Zealand writers
Paula Danziger (August 18, 1944 – July 8, 2004) was an American author of children's and young adult literature.

Personal life
Danziger was born in Washington, D.C. to Samuel and Carolyn Danziger. Though she struggled in school as a child, she attended Montclair State University in New Jersey and earned a degree in 1967. She was a middle school teacher in New Jersey from 1967-1978 while studying for a Master's degree. Her studies were interrupted when she was in a car crash, where a drunk driver hit her car, and she slammed her head against the front window which caused her to have brain damage. In 1978 she left teaching to write full-time. 

Although readers loved her books because of the humor, some critics called them superficial and generic. Others praised her work for tackling real-life issues.

Danziger died in 2004 after complications from a heart attack. She was 59.

Awards
Some of the awards Danziger's work received:
California Young Reader Medal
Parents' Choice Award
Children’s Choice award

Publications
 The Cat Ate My Gymsuit. Delacorte, 1974.
 The Pistachio Prescription. Delacorte, 1978.
 Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?. Delacorte, 1979.
 There's a Bat in Bunk Five. Delacorte, 1980.
 The Divorce Express. Delacorte, 1982.
 It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World. Delacorte, 1985.
 This Place Has No Atmosphere. Delacorte, 1986.
 Remember Me to Harold Square. Delacorte, 1987.
 Everyone Else's Parents Said Yes. Delacorte, 1989.
 Make Like a Tree and Leave. Delacorte, 1990.
 Earth to Matthew. Delacorte, 1991.
 Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars. Delacorte, 1992.
 Amber Brown is Not a Crayon, illustrated by Tony Ross. Putnam's, 1994.
 Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James. Putnam's, 1994.
 You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown, illustrated by Tony Ross. Putnam's, 1995.
 Amber Brown Goes Fourth, illustrated by Tony Ross. Putnam's Sons, 1995.
 Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit, illustrated by Tony Ross. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
 Forever Amber Brown, illustrated by Tony Ross. Putnam, 1996.
 Amber Brown Sees Red, illustrated by Tony Ross. Putnam, 1997.
 With Ann M. Martin, P.S. Longer Letter Later. Scholastic, 1998.
 With Ann M. Martin, Snail Mail No More. 2000.
 Amber Brown is Feeling Blue, illustrated by Tony Ross. Putnam's, 1998.
 Contributed with other various authors to It's Super to Be Six and It's Terrific to be Ten, published by Scholastic.

References

"Paula Danziger." St. James Guide to Young Adult Writers. Gale, 1999. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.
Cech, John. "Martin, Ann M." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2015. Web.  23 Mar. 2015. 
Danziger, Paula. "Paula Danziger Interview Transcript."  Scholastic Teachers. Scholastic, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

1944 births
2004 deaths
Writers from Washington, D.C.
American children's writers
Joan Bauer is an American author. She was born on July 12, 1951 in River Forest, Illinois. She was the oldest of four sisters with a teacher for a mother and a salesman for a father. In her teen years, her grandmother got Alzheimer's disease.  Soon after this, her father committed suicide. Bauer said her teenage experiences influenced her stories. As a teen, Bauer was a waitress, an assistant, typing teacher, and a freelance writer. Bauer currently lives in Brooklyn, with her husband Evan Bauer, her daughter Jean, and dog Max. She’s working on another book, which is due to be published in early 2016.

Career
In her twenties, Bauer had a career in advertising sales. After ten years, Bauer realized she did not like being a saleswoman and decided to quit to become a journalist. Joan Bauer made her writing debut with the book, Squashed, which earned many positive reviews.

Books
Close To Famous
Tell Me
Almost Home
Peeled
Rules of the Road
Best Foot Forward
Stand Tall
Hope Was Here
Backwater
Sticks
Thwonk 
Squashed

References

Other websites 
 Official website

Writers from Illinois
Grace Lin is an American writer and children's illustrator. Her first book, The Ugly Vegetables, was published in 1999. She has written four novels: The Year of the Dog, The Year of the Rat, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and Starry River of the Sky. She also writes a series for early readers with twins named Ling and Ting, as well as other books for younger readers. She brings her sketchbook everywhere, and writes down ideas for her books. She wanted to grow up to be a figure skater. She changed her mind because she enjoyed drawing pictures of herself as an ice skater.

Early life and personal life
Lin was born on May 17, 1974. Her parents were  immigrants. She grew up in New York. She has one older sister named Lissy, and a younger sister named Ki-Ki. She married a man named Robert Mercer. He died from cancer in 2007. te a book called Robert’s Snow to raise money for cancer research. She now has a daughter who was born in 2012. In 2010, she married her second husband, Alex. Lin is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design. She lives in Florence, Massachusetts.

Awards
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon received a 2010 John Newbery Honor. She also received an Honorable Mention from APAAL (Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature) in 2007 for Year of the Dog. She was nominated for the 2007-08 Texas Bluebonnet Award. Several of her books have been chosen for Al Roker’s Today Show Book Club.

References

 "Grace Lin: Fun Facts: Main" . N.p., n.d. Web. Accessed 23 Mar. 2015.

Writers from New York
1974 births
Living people
Nasrin Oryakhil (born 1964) is a gynecologist and obstetrician from Afghanistan. She received a 2014 International Women of Courage Award.

Work 

In 2004, Oryakhil became the Director of the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. At that hospital, she started the first clinic for obstetric fistula repair in Afghanistan. She is the president of the NGO Afghan Family Health Association, and a member of the Afghan Women's Network. 

Oryakhil is also part of a group to create a Medical Council in Afghanistan. She supported the creation of the Afghan Midwives Association.

Oryakhil is a member of the Afghan Women’s Network.  She speaks to the Parliament and at professional medical conferences.  She is part of a working group to start a Medical Council in Afghanistan.

Awards 

In 2014, Oryakhil received an International Women of Courage Award.

References

Other websites 

 2015 International Women of Courage Awards, U.S. State Department photostream on Flickr 
 Secretary's International Women of Courage Award (U.S. Department of State)

1964 births
Living people
Afghan scientists
Physicians
Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
Thomas Grant Gustin (born January 14, 1990) is an American actor and singer. He is known for portraying the roles of Sebastian Smythe on Glee and Barry Allen/The Flash on The Flash.

He was born Norfolk, Virginia to his mother Tina Haney, a pediatric nurse.  He attended the Governor's School for the Arts program in Norfolk for Musical Theatre. He has also been to Hurrah Players Incorporated and graduated from Granby High School. He would then go to the BFA Music Theatre Program at Elon University in North Carolina for two years.

From September 30, 2010 to September 23, 2011, Gustin played the role of Baby John in the Broadway Revival Tour of West Side Story.

Filmography

Movies
Kid Fitness Jungle Adventure Exercise Video - Club Fit kid (2003) (Direct-to-DVD)
A Mother's Nightmare - Chris Stewart (2012) (TV movie)
Affluenza - Todd Goodman (2014)
Krystal - Campbell Ogburn (2017)

Television
A Haunting - Stacey's boyfriend (2006)
Glee - Sebastian Smythe (2011–13)
CSI: Miami - Scott Ferris/Trent Burton (2012)
The Glee Project - Himself (2012)
90210 - Campbell Price (2013)
Arrow - Barry Allen/The Flash (2013–present)
The Flash - Barry Allen/The Flash (2014–present)

Online
NASA's Kids Science News Network - Himself (2008)

Theatre
West Side Story - Baby John (2010–11)

References

Other websites

1990 births
Actors from Virginia
American child actors
American movie actors
American musical theatre actors
American television actors
Living people
People from Norfolk, Virginia
John Wesley Shipp (born January 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for portraying the roles of Barry Allen on the CBS television show The Flash, Mitch Leery on Dawson's Creek, Kelly Nelson on Guiding Light, and Douglas Cummings on As the World Turns.

He won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for As the World Turns in 1986. He also won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Performer in a Daytime Drama Series for Santa Barbara in 1987.

In 2014, it was announced that Shipp would be cast as Henry Allen, the father of Barry Allen in The CW's The Flash.

Filmography

Movies
The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter - Bastian's Father (1990)
Soft Deceit - John Hobart (1994)
Second to Die - Jim Bratchett (2002)
Starcrossed - Father (2005) (short)
Karma Police - Barrington Freeman (2008)
Port City - George (2009)
Grotesque - Father Fahey (2009)
Separation Anxiety - Sr. Palmer (2010)
Hell and Mr. Fudge - Bennie Lee Fudge (2012)
Golden Shoes - The President of the United States (2015)
Sensory Perception - Lt. Thawne (2015)
The Sector - Stillwell (2015)

Television
The Dirtiest Show in Town (1980) (TV movie)
Guiding Light - Kelly Nelson (1981-84)
Fantasy Island - Todd Skylar (1983)
Summer Fantasy - Callahan (1984) (TV movie)
As the World Turns - Doug Cummings (1985-86)
Santa Barbara - Martin Ellis (1987)
One Life to Live - Blanchard Lovelace (1989)
The Flash - Barry Allen / The Flash / Pollux (1990-91)
Baby of the Bride - Dennis (1991) (TV movie)
Danger Team - Spec (1991) (TV movie) (voice)
All My Children - Carter Jones (1992)
Human Target - Garner St. John (1992)
NYPD Blue - Officer Roy Larson (1994)
Golden Gate - Kenny Scanlon (1994) (TV movie)
Green Dolphin Beat - Terry Lattner (1994) (TV movie)
Sisters - Lucky Williams (1994-95)
JAG - Gunnery Sergeant Granger (1995)
Deadly Web - Dr. Stanton (1996) (TV movie)
Strangers - Jack (1996)
Lost Treasure of Dos Santos - Jack (1997) (TV movie)
Soldier of Fortune, Inc. - Griffin (1997)
Dawson's Creek - Mitch Leery (1998-2001)
Road Rage - Jim Carson (1999) (TV movie)
The Outer Limits - Coach Peter Shotwell (2001)
JAG - Colonel Marcus Sutter (2004)
Palmetto Pointe - Michael Jones (2005)
CSI: NY - Patrick Quinn (2006)
Christie's Revenge - Uncle Ray Colton (2007) (TV movie)
The Closer - Chris Conroy (2007)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold - Professor Zoom (2010) (voice)
One Life to Live - Eddie Ford (2010-12)
Drop Dead Diva - Doug Bailey (2011)
Teen Wolf - Mr. Lahey (2012-13)
The Flash - Henry Allen (2014-present)

References

Other websites

1955 births
Actors from Virginia
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Living people
People from Norfolk, Virginia
Emmy Award winning actors
Fatimata Touré is a women's rights activist and the head of the Regional Forum on Reconciliation and Peace in Gao, Mali. She is also the head of Women’s Action, Research, Study and Training Group, which works against fistula.  In 2014, she received the International Women of Courage Award.

Work 

During the 2012 and 2013 fighting in Mali, a hospital in Gao was attacked. Touré helped the fistula patients find a new place to live, and find medical help. Touré also gave care and shelter to those forced into marriages or raped. She also spoke against violence against women. She made a record of what happened, even as her own home was attacked.

Awards 
2014 - International Women of Courage Award. 
In 2014, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, mentioned Touré in a speech in Mali.

References

Other websites 

 2015 International Women of Courage Awards, U.S. State Department photostream on Flickr 
 Secretary's International Women of Courage Award (U.S. Department of State)

Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
Living people
Malian people
The word Android may mean one of two things:

Android (robot), a robot that looks like a human
Android (operating system), an operating system made by Google
Androidland
Android Market, replaced by Google Play
Oinikhol Bobonazarova is a Tajikistani human rights activist. In 2014 she received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. Department of State.

Work 

In 1993, the Tajik government arrested Bobonazarova. They said Bobonazarova planned to take over the government by violence. Bobonazarova was in jail for a few months. Then she became a human rights counselor in the Tajik office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. She also worked for the Tajik branch of the Open Society Foundation. In 2013, she became the head of the “Perspektiva Plus” human rights group. They work for the rights of prisoners, women, and Tajikistani labor migrants. She also worked to create Tajikistan's first independent prison monitoring program. In 2004, Tajik prisons closed to outsiders. 

In 2013, Bobonazarova was the first woman to try to run for president in Tajikistan. Her campaign did not get enough signatures. She was the first Tajikistani woman to receive the International Women of Courage Award.

References

Other websites 

 2015 International Women of Courage Awards, U.S. State Department photostream on Flickr 
 Secretary's International Women of Courage Award (U.S. Department of State)

Living people
Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
William Douglas "Doug" Parker is the current Chairman and CEO of American Airlines, Inc.

Career 
Parker was born . In 1984 he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Albion College.  In 1986 he received his MBA from Vanderbilt University. The same year he started with American Airlines in financial management. In 1991 he moved to Northwest Airlines as Vice President and Treasurer. He moved to America West Airlines in 1995 as their Chief financial officer. On September 1, 2001 he became CEO of America West. After the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington DC the airline business was in financial trouble. Parker lobbied Congress for a financial bailout to keep his airline out of bankruptcy. He was given a $380 million USD loan that saved his airline. In 2005 he became president of US Airways Inc., a subsidiary of US Airways Group Inc.

Parker has served on the board of Arizona Public Service. He also serves on the board of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings.

Personal life 
Parker's wife Gwen is a former flight attendant. They have three children. In 2007, Doug Parker pleaded guilty to his third DUI and was sentenced to 1 day in jail.

References

Other websites 
 Doug Parker Corporate Biography  Pdf
 W. Douglas Parker, Chief Executive Officer
 American Airlines CEO Doug Parker: ‘China Has Huge Potential’

1962 births
Living people
American chief executives
House Party 2 is a 1991 American comedy movie. This movie is about a pajama party. Queen Latifah plays Zora. Martin Lawrence plays Bilal. Tisha Campbell is also in the movie.

The movie got negative reviews from critics. It started at #1 at the box office.

References

Other websites
 
 

1991 comedy movies
American comedy movies
American independent movies
Sophie Belinda Jonas (born née Turner; 21 February 1996) is a British actress. She plays Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones, She played Young Adeline March in The Thirteenth Tale. She also played Heather in the 2015 comedy movie Barely Lethal.

She was born in Northampton, England. In 2019, she married singer-songwriter Joe Jonas.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

English television actors
English movie actors
1996 births
Living people
Bird is a 1988 American biographical movie. It was both directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. Bird was released on September 30, 1988. The movie is about the life and music of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.

The movie got positive reviews from critics. It has a 78% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie won an Academy Award for Best Sound, a Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and Forest Whitaker won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival.

Cast 
Forest Whitaker as Charlie "Bird" Parker
Diane Venora as Chan Parker
Michael Zelniker as Red Rodney
Samuel E. Wright as Dizzy Gillespie
Keith David as Buster Franklin
Diane Salinger as Baroness Nica
Michael McGuire as Brewster
James Handy as Esteves
Damon Whitaker as Young Bird
Morgan Nagler as Kim
Arlen Dean Snyder as Dr Heath
Sam Robards as Moscowitz
Penelope Windust as Bellevue Nurse
Glenn Wright as Alcoholic Patient (credited as Glenn T. Wright)
George Orrison as Patient with Checkers
Bill Cobbs as Dr Caulfield

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1988 drama movies
1980s biographical movies
Academy Award winning movies
American biographical movies
American drama movies
English-language movies
Golden Globe Award winning movies
Movies about drugs
Warner Bros. movies
Movies directed by Clint Eastwood
On 18 March 2015, two gunmen dressed in military uniform attacked the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, taking hostages. 23 people, mostly tourists, were killed in the attack, while another 50 were injured. The two gunmen were also shot dead by police in the attack. 19 foreign tourists were killed in the attack, including including four Italians, two French national, one Russian national, one British national, two Colombians, five Japanese, three Polish nationals, one Australian, and one Spaniard were found to have been killed. Another two Tunisians, a police officer and a citizen, were murdered. The gunmen, Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui, were also Tunisians. Police called the event a terrorist attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant later claimed responsibility for the attack.

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2015 mass shootings
2015 in Africa
21st century in Tunisia
Attacks on buildings and structures in Africa

Islamic State
Islamic terrorist incidents in Africa
Islamic terrorist incidents in the 2010s
March 2015 events
Mass murder in 2015
Mass shootings in Africa
Massacres in Africa
Terrorist incidents in Africa in the 2010s
Terrorist incidents in 2015
Tunis
El color de la pasión (The Color of Passion) is a Mexican telenovela. It is produced by Televisa.

Cast

References

Other websites 
 Official website  

2014 Mexican television series debuts
Telenovelas
Mexican television series
Old Church Slavonic is the language of some Eastern Orthodox churches. It was the first Slavic language for writing literature. It was made by the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century.

References

Slavic languages
Languages of Europe
In computability theory and computational complexity theory, a decision problem is a question in some formal system with a yes-or-no answer. The answer is dependent on the values of the input parameters. Decision problems typically appear in mathematical questions of decidability, that is, the question of the existence of an effective method to determine the existence of some object or its membership in a set. Some of the most important problems in mathematics are undecidable.

Mathematical problems
Diabolus in Musica is the seventh studio album by American thrash metal band, Slayer. Diabolus in Musica was released on June 9, 1998 through American Recordings.

The album peaked at #31 on the Billboard 200.

It is considered to be Slayer's most experimental album with most of the album's content written by guitarist Jeff Hanneman. Hanneman described writing for the album as, "When we were writing this album I was looking for something to beat; I wanted something to beat, but nothing impresses me right now. Nothing sounded really aggressive or heavy enough to inspire me to beat it, so I just had to come up with my own shit."

Vocalist Tom Araya had concerns over the lyrics that guitarist Kerry King gave to the song "In the Name of God". King said; "It's like, 'C'mon, man, you're in Slayer. You're the antichrist — you said it yourself on the first album!' You can't draw the line like that. Whether he agrees with it or not, he didn't write it — I wrote it. So you have to say, 'Well, it's just a part of being in this band.' Now Jeff and I, we don't give a fuck. If Jeff wrote something I had a problem with, I would never even raise a fucking finger. I'd be like, 'Fuck yeah, let's do it! Gonna piss someone off? Alright!'"

Songs

Japanese edition 
The Australian edition of the album does not feature track #8

References

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1998 albums
Slayer albums