Authors Families
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Maria V Snyder
Maria V. Snyder grew up in Pennsylvania in the US and trained as a meteorologist - because she loved the idea of chasing storms - before becoming a novelist with the New York Times best-selling Study Series (Poison Study, Magic Study and Fire Study) about a young woman who becomes a poison tas...
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Marianne Levy
Before she started writing books, Marianne was an actress. Not the incredibly famous sort, though. After graduating from Cambridge University she appeared in a few TV shows and did a bit of comedy on Radio 4. She has been in one film, in which she managed to forget both her lines. <...
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Mark Lowery
Mark Lowery is a 32 year old father of two young children. He lives in Cambridgeshire with his girlfriend. The youngest of four, Mark was born in North Wales and grew up in Preston, Lancs. He is a primary school teacher and has worked at schools in Leeds, Ipswich and Padova in Italy. He curren...
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Mark Powers
Author Mark Powers has been making up ridiculous stories since primary school and is slightly shocked to find that people now pay him to do it. As a child he always daydreamed that his teddy bear went off on top secret missions when he was at school, so a team of toys recruited as spies seemed...
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Mark Robson
MARK ROBSON was born in Essex and raised, for the most part, in Camarthen, West Wales.In 1982 he gained a scholarship to join the Royal Air Force and was an operational pilot for morethan twenty years. His career as a writer began during his time in the Falklands; bad weather...
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Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is best known as the author of The Book Thief, a breathtaking novel about a girl living in Nazi Germany whose world is opened up by reading. The book became a word of mouth bestseller across the globe. Fighting Ruben Wolfe is Markus's second novel which was first published a decad...
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Martin Brown
Martin Brown is best known for his illustrations of the best-selling Horrible Histories series. Martin is from Australia where he grew up a suburban boy in Melbourne, Australia. Ever since he can remember, he's been doodling drawing cartoons. This enthusiasm for non-stop doodling and hi...
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Martyn Bedford
Martin Waddell is one of the most popular, talented and respected authors of children's books writing today. He was awarded the internationally prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for his lasting contribution to children's literature, the first Irish writer to be so honoured. He has work...