Authors Families

  • Imogen White

    Imogen White

    Imogen won her place in the Undiscovered Voices 2014 Anthology with the opening to The Rose Muddle Mysteries. Imogen loves local history, and children's stories that aren't limited to beautiful countryside locations or secluded seaside coves. She lives in Hove with her husband, children and be...

  • Irfan Master

    Irfan Master

    Irfan Master has worked as a librarian and was project manager of Reading the Game at the National Literacy Trust. His father is from Gujarat, where A Beautiful Lie is set, and his mother is from Pakistan. Irfan grew up speaking both Urdu and English. Irfan is originally from Leicester...

  • Isabel Hoving

    Isabel Hoving

    Isabel Hoving was born in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She began her career as a secondary school teacher, during which time she became very active in the Dutch women's movement. She eventually gave up her job to study literary theory full time, and spent some months in Senegal, West Africa f...

  • Isla Fisher

    Isla Fisher

    Isla Lang Fisher was born in Oman, where her father worked as a banker for the U.N. She spent her early childhood in Scotland before moving to Australia with her family in the early 1980s. From a young age, Isla showed an interest in both acting and writing. From age nine, she was appea...

  • Jackie Morris

    Jackie Morris

    Jackie lives in west Wales with her two children, five dogs and four cats and makes a living by drawing, colouring in ... and dreaming. She enjoys walking, swimming in the sea and reading, especially children's books. She went to art college, first in Hereford and then in Bath. After mo...

  • Jacqueline Wilson

    Jacqueline Wilson

    Born in Bath, Jacqueline Wilson spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first 'novel' when she was nine, filling countless Woolworth's' exercise books as she grew up. She started work as a journalist for D.C. Thomson in Scotland where J...

  • Jakob Wegelius

    Jakob Wegelius

    Jakob Wegelius was born in 1966 and grew up with single mother in a suburb of Gothenburg, Sweden. He left for Stockholm after high school and studied history and philosophy, before taking a masters degree in graphic design at Konstfack 1996. Jakob has been working as freelance illustrator ever...

  • James Dashner

    James Dashner

    James Dashner is the author of the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, which is also being turned into a film. James was born and raised in Georgia where he read extensively, wrote stories on his parents' old typewriter, and dreamed of becoming a writer. Instead, he st...