Authors
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Jeff Giles
Jeff Giles grew up in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Most recently, he was the deputy managing editor of Entertainment Weekly, where he oversaw all coverage of movies and books, including the magazine's championing of YA fiction. Jeff has written for Rolling Stone and the New York Times Books...
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Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney is the author of the bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Diary of a Wimpy Kid was his debut novel and the comic adventures of his protagonist, Greg Heffley, began online in 2004 on funbrain.com where almost 100,000 children read about him every day. To date the series has sold...
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Jeff Povey
Author Jeff Povey is an award-winning screenwriter. As well as several original TV dramas and feature films he has also written over 150 episodes of Eastenders and for Casualty, Holby, Grange Hill and Silent Witness as well as co-creating the recent By Any Means. Shift is his debut teen novel....
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Jem Packer
Jem Packer creates books with his other creative half, Duncan McCoshan (Knife). Together they are a creative team who bring a distinctive humour, style and and imagination to both fiction and non-fiction. Their popular cartoon strip 'It's Grim up North London' first appeared in Private Eye in...
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Jenn Bennett
Jenn Bennett is an artist and author who writes books for adults and teens. Born in Germany, she's lived and travelled extensively throughout Europe, the US, and the Far East. She currently lives near Atlanta with one husband and two evil pugs. Jenn Bennett's debut, the beautiful Night Owls, s...
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Jenni Desmond
Jenni is a picture book author and illustrator based in Hackney, London. Her first book Red Cat Blue Cat was published in 2012 and won the Cambridgeshire Picture Book Award. She was the 2014 illustrator for the National Portrait Gallery Family Trail, and won Junior Magazine best emerging talen...
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Jennifer Mathieu
Jennifer Mathieu was born on the East Coast of America, to a Cuban mother and Chilean father. Jennifer teaches English to middle and high schoolers in Texas, where she now lives with her husband, son and rescue dog. She used to make her own zine, and wrote about all her favourite things in Mox...
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Jenny Nimmo
Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor and grew up on a free-range poultry farm on the Berkshire/Surrey border. She now lives in a converted watermill in Wales, where she has lived for 26 years. She has tried to learn Welsh and while she is not fluent in Welsh, her three children are. Her husband, Da...
