{"count":17752,"next":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=279","previous":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=277","results":[{"id":13516,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Susan Beth Pfeffer","bio":"Susan Beth Pfeffer was born in New York City in 1948. She grew up in the city and its nearby suburbs and spent summers in the Catskill Mountains. When she was six her father wrote and published a book on constitutional law, and Pfeffer decided that she, too, wanted to be a writer. That year she wrote her first story, about the love between an Oreo cookie and a pair of scissors. However, it wasn't until 1970 that her first book, Just Morgan, was published. She wrote it during her last semester at New York University; since then, she has been a full-time writer for young people. She has won numerous awards and citations for her work, which range from picture books to middle-grade and young-adult novels, and include both contemporary and historical fiction. She is also the author of the popular Portraits of Little Women series for grades 3-6, and has written a book for adults on writing for children.To date, she has written more than 60 books. About David was awarded the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award. The Year Without Michael is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and winner of the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award; it was also named by the American Library Association as one of the hundred best books for teenagers written between 1968-1993. When she is not working, she enjoys watching movies, both new and old, and collecting movie memorabilia, reading biographies and histories, and eating foods that are bad for her. She lives in Middletown, New York, with her two cats, Alexander and Emily.Named the American Library Associations Young Adult Library Services Association Best Book for Young Adults 2007 and Teens’ Top Ten Booklist in 2007. Finalist for the Andre Norton Award, Quill Awards, Hal Clement Awards","raw_bio":"Susan Beth Pfeffer was born in New York City in 1948. She grew up in the city and its nearby suburbs and spent summers in the Catskill Mountains. When she was six her father wrote and published a book on constitutional law, and Pfeffer decided that she, too, wanted to be a writer. That year she wrote her first story, about the love between an Oreo cookie and a pair of scissors. However, it wasn't until 1970 that her first book, Just Morgan, was published. She wrote it during her last semester at New York University; since then, she has been a full-time writer for young people. She has won numerous awards and citations for her work, which range from picture books to middle-grade and young-adult novels, and include both contemporary and historical fiction. She is also the author of the popular Portraits of Little Women series for grades 3-6, and has written a book for adults on writing for children.To date, she has written more than 60 books. About David was awarded the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award. The Year Without Michael is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and winner of the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award; it was also named by the American Library Association as one of the hundred best books for teenagers written between 1968-1993. When she is not working, she enjoys watching movies, both new and old, and collecting movie memorabilia, reading biographies and histories, and eating foods that are bad for her. She lives in Middletown, New York, with her two cats, Alexander and Emily.Named the American Library Associations Young Adult Library Services Association Best Book for Young Adults 2007 and Teens’ Top Ten Booklist in 2007. Finalist for the Andre Norton Award, Quill Awards, Hal Clement Awards","slug":"susan-beth-pfeffer","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/susan-beth-pfeffer","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.037392","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13517,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Charlotte Emerson","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"charlotte-emerson","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/charlotte-emerson","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.045967","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13518,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"William  Taylor","bio":"William Taylor is the author of over thirty novels. He's won many awards, among them the Esther Glen Medal, the Aim Children's Book Award, and the Italian Premio Andersen Award for best book of the year. He's held several fellowships and his recent title, Scarface and the Angel, was one of three New Zealand titles selected by The White Ravens 2001 for the National Youth Library in Munich. He lives near Mt Ruapehu. Currently, William Taylor is the President of the New Zealand Society of Authors. ","raw_bio":"William Taylor is the author of over thirty novels. He's won many awards, among them the Esther Glen Medal, the Aim Children's Book Award, and the Italian Premio Andersen Award for best book of the year. He's held several fellowships and his recent title, Scarface and the Angel, was one of three New Zealand titles selected by The White Ravens 2001 for the National Youth Library in Munich. He lives near Mt Ruapehu. Currently, William Taylor is the President of the New Zealand Society of Authors. ","slug":"william-taylor","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/william-taylor","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.059073","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13519,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Jeannie Buchholz","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"jeannie-buchholz","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/jeannie-buchholz","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.069278","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13520,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Nan D. Miller","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"nan-d-miller","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/nan-d-miller","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.078813","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13521,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"James B. Stewart","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"james-b-stewart","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/james-b-stewart","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.092351","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13522,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Katharine Stall","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"katharine-stall","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/katharine-stall","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.102826","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13523,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Gretta Mulrooney","bio":"I was born and brought up in London. My parents were Irish. I studied for a B.A. in English at The University of Ulster and subsequently a qualification in Social Work.I taught English in secondary schools, then worked in social care for many years.I started writing for children in my thirties and had five books published with Poolbeg Press. My first adult fiction novel won a bursary from East Midlands Arts. My first published novel, Araby, was with Harper Collins, followed by Marble Heart. These are available as e books and paperbacks, Fourth Estate..Robert Hale published the next three novels; Fire and Ice, Out of the Blue and The Apple of Her Eye.Out of the Blue is also now an e book published by Joffe Books.Lost Child and Coming of Age have been published as e books and paperbacks by Joffe Books.I have had two short stories, The Old Master and The Gold Digger, commissioned by and read on Radio Four and have self-published a book of short stories and two novellas.Araby and Marble Heart are now available on Kindle via Amazon.I have always been an avid reader of psychological thrillers and crime fiction and decided, in retirement, to turn to crime. The Tyrone Swift series features a London based private detective: The Lady Vanished, Blood Secrets,Two Lovers, Six Deaths, Watching You, Low Lake and Your Last Lie. They are published as e books and paperbacks by Joffe Books. Book one in a new series featuring Detective Inspector Siv Drummond is now out; These Little Lies.All my books are available on Amazon or via Joffe Books.","raw_bio":"I was born and brought up in London. My parents were Irish. I studied for a B.A. in English at The University of Ulster and subsequently a qualification in Social Work.I taught English in secondary schools, then worked in social care for many years.I started writing for children in my thirties and had five books published with Poolbeg Press. My first adult fiction novel won a bursary from East Midlands Arts. My first published novel, Araby, was with Harper Collins, followed by Marble Heart. These are available as e books and paperbacks, Fourth Estate..Robert Hale published the next three novels; Fire and Ice, Out of the Blue and The Apple of Her Eye.Out of the Blue is also now an e book published by Joffe Books.Lost Child and Coming of Age have been published as e books and paperbacks by Joffe Books.I have had two short stories, The Old Master and The Gold Digger, commissioned by and read on Radio Four and have self-published a book of short stories and two novellas.Araby and Marble Heart are now available on Kindle via Amazon.I have always been an avid reader of psychological thrillers and crime fiction and decided, in retirement, to turn to crime. The Tyrone Swift series features a London based private detective: The Lady Vanished, Blood Secrets,Two Lovers, Six Deaths, Watching You, Low Lake and Your Last Lie. They are published as e books and paperbacks by Joffe Books. Book one in a new series featuring Detective Inspector Siv Drummond is now out; These Little Lies.All my books are available on Amazon or via Joffe Books.","slug":"gretta-mulrooney","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/gretta-mulrooney","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.117161","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13524,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Julia Golding","bio":"My journey to becoming an author has been a roundabout one, taking in many other careers. I grew up on the edge of Epping Forest and was that dreamy kind of child who was always writing stories. After reading English at Cambridge, I decided to find out as much as I could about the wider world so joined the Foreign Office and served in Poland. My work as a diplomat took me from the high point of town twinning in the Tatra Mountains to the low of inspecting the bottom of a Silesian coal mine.On leaving Poland, I exchanged diplomacy for academia and took a doctorate in the literature of the English Romantic Period at Oxford. I then joined Oxfam as a lobbyist on conflict issues, campaigning at the UN and with governments to lessen the impact of conflict on civilians living in war zones - a cause about which I still feel very passionate.Married with three children, I now live in Oxford between two rivers, surrounded by gargoyles, beautiful sandstone buildings and ancient trees.My first novel, 'The Diamond of Drury Lane', won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2006 and the Nestle Children's Book Prize 2006 (formerly known as the Smarties Prize). I was also chosen by Waterstone's in 2007 as one of their 'Twenty-five authors for the future'. In the US, 'Secret of the Sirens' won the honor book medal of the Green Earth Book Award. My latest series, which starts with Mel Foster and the Demon Butler, about an intrepid Victorian orphan who lives in a household of monsters, won Bronze in the Primary Teacher awards in 2015. The next part, Mel Foster and the Time Machine, has set the time-dial to arrive in 2016.","raw_bio":"My journey to becoming an author has been a roundabout one, taking in many other careers. I grew up on the edge of Epping Forest and was that dreamy kind of child who was always writing stories. After reading English at Cambridge, I decided to find out as much as I could about the wider world so joined the Foreign Office and served in Poland. My work as a diplomat took me from the high point of town twinning in the Tatra Mountains to the low of inspecting the bottom of a Silesian coal mine.On leaving Poland, I exchanged diplomacy for academia and took a doctorate in the literature of the English Romantic Period at Oxford. I then joined Oxfam as a lobbyist on conflict issues, campaigning at the UN and with governments to lessen the impact of conflict on civilians living in war zones - a cause about which I still feel very passionate.Married with three children, I now live in Oxford between two rivers, surrounded by gargoyles, beautiful sandstone buildings and ancient trees.My first novel, 'The Diamond of Drury Lane', won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2006 and the Nestle Children's Book Prize 2006 (formerly known as the Smarties Prize). I was also chosen by Waterstone's in 2007 as one of their 'Twenty-five authors for the future'. In the US, 'Secret of the Sirens' won the honor book medal of the Green Earth Book Award. My latest series, which starts with Mel Foster and the Demon Butler, about an intrepid Victorian orphan who lives in a household of monsters, won Bronze in the Primary Teacher awards in 2015. The next part, Mel Foster and the Time Machine, has set the time-dial to arrive in 2016.","slug":"julia-golding","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/julia-golding","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.131508","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13525,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Nathaniel Branden","bio":"Nathaniel Branden started reading Ayn Rand's \"Fountainhead\" in the summer of '44 as he was introduced to it by his sister and her giggling friends. He met Rand in California where he attended college for psychology. She responded to his fan letter.\"Atlas Shrugged\" was dedicated to Branden and he became her intellectual heir. The two carried on an affair, though each was married. After a dispute, they parted and never publicly reconciled.Branden has written several books on psychology and self-esteem. He practiced psychotherapy in Los Angeles.","raw_bio":"Nathaniel Branden started reading Ayn Rand's \"Fountainhead\" in the summer of '44 as he was introduced to it by his sister and her giggling friends. He met Rand in California where he attended college for psychology. She responded to his fan letter.\"Atlas Shrugged\" was dedicated to Branden and he became her intellectual heir. The two carried on an affair, though each was married. After a dispute, they parted and never publicly reconciled.Branden has written several books on psychology and self-esteem. He practiced psychotherapy in Los Angeles.","slug":"nathaniel-branden","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/nathaniel-branden","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.157786","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13526,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Alan Greenspan","bio":"Alan Greenspan is an American economist and from 1987 to 2006 chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States. He currently works as a private advisor, making speeches and providing consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC.First appointed Fed chairman by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring after a record-setting tenure on January 31, 2006, at which time he relinquished the chairmanship to Ben Bernanke. Greenspan was lauded for his handling of the Black Monday stock market crash that occurred very shortly after he first became chairman, as well as for his stewardship of the Internet-driven, \"dot-com\" economic boom of the 1990s.[citation needed] This expansion culminated in a stock market bubble burst in March 2000 followed by a recession beginning in late 2000 and continuing through 2002.From 2001 until his retirement from the Fed, he was increasingly criticized for some statements seen as overstepping the Fed's traditional purview of monetary policy, and viewed by others as overly supportive of the policies of President George W. Bush, as well as for policies seen by Business Week Magazine and others as leading to a housing bubble. During his tenure Greenspan was considered to be the leading authority on American domestic economic and monetary policy, and his active influence continues to this day.","raw_bio":"Alan Greenspan is an American economist and from 1987 to 2006 chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States. He currently works as a private advisor, making speeches and providing consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC.First appointed Fed chairman by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring after a record-setting tenure on January 31, 2006, at which time he relinquished the chairmanship to Ben Bernanke. Greenspan was lauded for his handling of the Black Monday stock market crash that occurred very shortly after he first became chairman, as well as for his stewardship of the Internet-driven, \"dot-com\" economic boom of the 1990s.[citation needed] This expansion culminated in a stock market bubble burst in March 2000 followed by a recession beginning in late 2000 and continuing through 2002.From 2001 until his retirement from the Fed, he was increasingly criticized for some statements seen as overstepping the Fed's traditional purview of monetary policy, and viewed by others as overly supportive of the policies of President George W. Bush, as well as for policies seen by Business Week Magazine and others as leading to a housing bubble. During his tenure Greenspan was considered to be the leading authority on American domestic economic and monetary policy, and his active influence continues to this day.","slug":"alan-greenspan","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/alan-greenspan","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.175592","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13527,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Robert Hessen","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"robert-hessen","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/robert-hessen","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:12.195775","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2}],"description":"<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 24px;\"> The Great Poets and Writers in Indian and World History! </p>","image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_description/black.jpg"}