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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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James Davies
James Davies is an illustrator and author from Wales, now living in Bristol. He has recently returned to illustration with the 'Meet the....' series (including Meet the Ancient Egyptians, Meet the Ancient Romans) published by Big Picture Press - a uniquely bold, graphic style, influence...
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James Holland
James Holland was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and studied history at Durham University. He is the bestselling author of numerous historical non-fiction titles and the Jack Tanner fiction series, and recently presented Battle of Britain: The Real Story on BBC2. A member of the British...
