Authors Families

  • Susan Cooper

    Susan Cooper

    Susan Cooper was born in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, later moving to North Wales. Her passion for literature began at an early age and she has been writing ever since she can remember. Susan read English at Oxford University and very soon into her studies became the first woman to edit th...

  • Susan Moore

    Susan Moore

    Susan Moore was born in the verdant county of Derbyshire. She emigrated to California in her early 20s in search of sunshine and adventure. She found both at Skywalker Ranch, where she worked for the creative force of Lucasfilm. Unable to escape her own destiny, she finally returned home to En...

  • Susan Wilson

    Susan Wilson

    S.M. Wilson lives on the west coast of Scotland with her fiance and two sons. Her day job is as a nurse in public health - and her dream job is writing fiction. Her love of YA fiction started as a teenager and has never stopped. She wrote The Extinction Trials to try and infect her sons...

  • Suzanne Collins

    Suzanne Collins

    Suzanne Collins has had a successful and prolific career writing for children's television. For preschool viewers, she penned multiple stories for the Emmy-nominated Little Bear and Oswald. She has worked on several Nickelodeon shows, including the Emmy-nominated hit Clarissa Explains i...

  • Suzanne Kaufman

    Suzanne Kaufman

    Suzanne Kaufman lives in Seattle with her husband Jonathan and two daughters. She has had a keen interest in children's books, animation and cartoons since she was a child herself. Over the years she has been an animator in special effects for Universal and Discovery, and an award-winning anim...

  • Sylvia V. Linsteadt

    Sylvia V. Linsteadt

    Sylvia V. Linsteadt lives in a pine forest near the ocean at the edge of California, with mostly deer and foxes for neighbours. When she isn't writing novels, short stories or poems about the lives of wild creatures or the magic of old myths, she likes to wander the hills looking for an...

  • Tabitha Suzuma

    Tabitha Suzuma

    Tabitha Suzuma was born in 1975 and lives in London. She has always loved writing and would regularly get into trouble at the French Lyce for writing stories instead of listening in class. She used to work as a primary school teacher and now divides her time between writing and tutoring. A Not...

  • Tamsin Winter

    Tamsin Winter

    Tamsin Winter grew up in a tiny village in Northamptonshire where there was nothing to do. She spent her childhood reading books and writing stories, mostly about cats (she loves cats so much that they still always appear in her books). She has a degree in English literature and creativ...