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Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppel was born on Vancouver Island, Canada and brought up on both coasts of Canada, east and west. He decided he wanted to be a writer when he was 12 and started out writing sci-fi epics inspired by his love of Star Wars. At 14 he wrote a humorous story called Colins Fantastic Video Ad...
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Keren David
Keren David's contemporary teen fiction draws on her long career as a journalist working for national newspapers. She started out as a teenage messenger girl, gave up a place at university to be an apprentice reporter, and eventually became a news editor and then a commissioning editor for com...
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Kes Gray
Kes Gray was born on 8 September 1960 in Chelmsford. He attended Great Baddow Comprehensive, gaining 6 O Levels and 3 A Levels, before going on to study for a B.A. Hons in English and American Literature at Kent University in Canterbury. He graduated with a 2:1. Kes has also got a Grade A Dipl...
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Kesia Lupo
By day, Kesia Lupo works as an editor for Chicken House, by night and the early hours of the morning she escapes into her very own fantasy world and writes. She studied history at Oxford University and creative writing at Bath Spa. Kesia lives in Bristol with her husband. We Are...
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Kevin Crossley-Holland
Kevin Crossley-Holland was born in 1941 and grew up in Buckinghamshire. He studied at Oxford University where he discovered a lifelong passion for myth and legend, and for Anglo-Saxon and medieval English. He worked in publishing for several years and has held a number of academic posts. Kevin...
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Kim Hood
KIM HOOD grew up in British Columbia, Canada. After earning degrees in psychology, history and education, she wandered through a few countries before making the west coast of Ireland home. Her eclectic work experience in education, therapy and community services has presented endless op...
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Kjartan Poskitt
Kjartan Poskitt, best known as the author of the Murderous Maths books, was born and now lives in Yorkshire. Kjartan had always wanted to be a performer and while he was studying at Durham university he started writing plays and songs, and then wrote for television programmes. In 1990 h...
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Korky Paul
Early Years and beyondKorky Paul was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1951. He studied art at the Durban School of Art in Natal, South Africa and then spent three years working for an advertising agency in Cape Town. In 1976 as Korky puts it he "fled for Europe" and got a job illustrating and...
