Product Description: Profiles influential science fiction and fantasy authors, including Douglas Adams, George R.R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Product Description: Since leaving behind a career in children''s television, Suzanne Collins has made her mark on the world with her bestselling young adult book series, The Hunger Games, which is now in production as a major motion picture. FAME: Suzanne Collins offers a look at how events in her life helped shape the series that would make her a household name...read more

Product Description: Helen Hunt Jackson was one of the best known authors of her time. She wrote poetry, children’s books, travel journals, and novels. After great sorrow and loss—the deaths of husband Edward Hunt and her two sons—in her native New England, Helen Hunt moved to Colorado Springs for her health and married William Sharpless Jackson in 1875...read more

Presents the lives and accomplishments of ten Canadian, English, and American women writers, including Jane Austen, Judy Blume, and Margaret Atwood.

Presents the stories of seven authors who lived between A.D. 794 and 1778 and whose words have influenced generations of readers. Includes quick quizzes for each chapter, activity pages, and a glossary.

Discusses the lives and works of the creators of famous monster literature: Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Gaston Leroux

Presents brief biographies of twenty major figures in modern literature.