Category: Author Biographies

A meeting with Jaco Jacobs at Thorntree Preparatory School on his tour through the Limpopo Province!

Read a mini biography on Gertrude Chandler Warner, author of the well-known children’s series The Boxcar Children.

Read my short (mini) bio of children’s author Judith Viorst.

Lynne Rae Perkins is an American author/illustrator of children’s books, who didn’t start out her adult life as writer. Even though she had studied art,

Jacqui van der Merwe (Shepherd) is a South African author of children’s books. She grew up traveling abroad in South Africa as well as Swaziland.

Read my mini-bio of Barbara Park, author of the well-known Junie B Jones series chapter books for children.

Multi-award winning author, Michael Morpurgo, is one of Britain’s best-loved writers for children and has won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, The Writers Guild

Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress and author, and she is a blogger for The Huffington Post online newspaper. On her website, she tells

American author, Daniel Handler, wrote the children’s novel series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, under the pen name of Lemony Snicket. But Lemony Snicket is

Katherine Applegate is an American young adult and children’s fiction writer, who has written many books, including The Buffalo Storm (a picture book), Roscoe Riley