{"count":17752,"next":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=319","previous":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=317","results":[{"id":13997,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Rosemary Comella","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"rosemary-comella","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/rosemary-comella","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.364419","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13998,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Marsha Kinder","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"marsha-kinder","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/marsha-kinder","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.377243","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13999,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Tracy Chevalier","bio":"Born:19 October 1962 in Washington, DC. Youngest of 3 children. Father was a photographer for The Washington Post.Childhood:Nerdy. Spent a lot of time lying on my bed reading. Favorite authors back then: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madeleine L’Engle, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Joan Aiken, Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander. Book I would have taken to a desert island: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.Education:BA in English, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1984. No one was surprised that I went there; I was made for such a progressive, liberal place.MA in creative writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1994. There’s a lot of debate about whether or not you can be taught to write. Why doesn’t anyone ask that of professional singers, painters, dancers? That year forced me to write all the time and take it seriously.Geography:Moved to London after graduating from Oberlin in 1984. I had studied for a semester in London and thought it was a great place, so came over for fun, expecting to go back to the US after 6 months to get serious. I’m still in London, and still not entirely serious. Even have dual citizenship – though I keep the American accent intact.Family:1 English husband + 1 English son + 1 tortoiseshell cat.Career:Before writing, was a reference book editor, working on encyclopedias about writers. (Yup, still nerdy.) Learned how to research and how to make sentences better. Eventually I wanted to fix my own sentences rather than others’, so I quit and did the MA.Writing:Talked a lot about becoming a writer as a kid, but actual pen to paper contact was minimal. Started writing short stories in my 20s, then began first novel, The Virgin Blue, during the MA year. With Girl With a Pearl Earring (written in 1998), I became a full-time writer, and have since juggled it with motherhood","raw_bio":"Born:19 October 1962 in Washington, DC. Youngest of 3 children. Father was a photographer for The Washington Post.Childhood:Nerdy. Spent a lot of time lying on my bed reading. Favorite authors back then: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madeleine L’Engle, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Joan Aiken, Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander. Book I would have taken to a desert island: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.Education:BA in English, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1984. No one was surprised that I went there; I was made for such a progressive, liberal place.MA in creative writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1994. There’s a lot of debate about whether or not you can be taught to write. Why doesn’t anyone ask that of professional singers, painters, dancers? That year forced me to write all the time and take it seriously.Geography:Moved to London after graduating from Oberlin in 1984. I had studied for a semester in London and thought it was a great place, so came over for fun, expecting to go back to the US after 6 months to get serious. I’m still in London, and still not entirely serious. Even have dual citizenship – though I keep the American accent intact.Family:1 English husband + 1 English son + 1 tortoiseshell cat.Career:Before writing, was a reference book editor, working on encyclopedias about writers. (Yup, still nerdy.) Learned how to research and how to make sentences better. Eventually I wanted to fix my own sentences rather than others’, so I quit and did the MA.Writing:Talked a lot about becoming a writer as a kid, but actual pen to paper contact was minimal. Started writing short stories in my 20s, then began first novel, The Virgin Blue, during the MA year. With Girl With a Pearl Earring (written in 1998), I became a full-time writer, and have since juggled it with motherhood","slug":"tracy-chevalier","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/tracy-chevalier","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.389106","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14000,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Rosalind Laker","bio":"A pseudonym used by Barbara Øvstedal.Barbara Øvstedal was an author previously writing under the pseudonym Barbara Paul and Barbara Douglas. She wrote a few books under this pseudonym but later changed to Rosalind Laker when Barbara Paul gained recognition. Her many books include The Sugar Pavilion and To Dance with Kings.","raw_bio":"A pseudonym used by Barbara Øvstedal.Barbara Øvstedal was an author previously writing under the pseudonym Barbara Paul and Barbara Douglas. She wrote a few books under this pseudonym but later changed to Rosalind Laker when Barbara Paul gained recognition. Her many books include The Sugar Pavilion and To Dance with Kings.","slug":"rosalind-laker","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/rosalind-laker","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.397633","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14001,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"A.P. di Stephano","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"ap-di-stephano","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/ap-di-stephano","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.413548","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14002,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Colin Wiggins","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"colin-wiggins","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/colin-wiggins","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.435448","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14003,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Tite Kubo","bio":"Tite Kubo (久保 帯人; Kubo Taito), also wrongly transliterated as Taitou Kubo, or Jiu bao dai ren. The son of a town council member in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima. He never took drawing seriously until he was 17; after reading Dragon Ball he knew he wanted to be a manga artist. At the age of 18 he submitted his first concept for the series Zombiepowder but it got rejected. Zombiepowder was rejected multiple times until Kubo was 22, when it finally was accepted by Shonen Jump. It did not last long; it was cancelled after four volumes in late 2000.His next series, Bleach, about a high school student who becomes a shinigami and fights hollows, was not such a failure. Bleach began regular publication in 2001. It has been running in Weekly Shonen Jump ever since.","raw_bio":"Tite Kubo (久保 帯人; Kubo Taito), also wrongly transliterated as Taitou Kubo, or Jiu bao dai ren. The son of a town council member in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima. He never took drawing seriously until he was 17; after reading Dragon Ball he knew he wanted to be a manga artist. At the age of 18 he submitted his first concept for the series Zombiepowder but it got rejected. Zombiepowder was rejected multiple times until Kubo was 22, when it finally was accepted by Shonen Jump. It did not last long; it was cancelled after four volumes in late 2000.His next series, Bleach, about a high school student who becomes a shinigami and fights hollows, was not such a failure. Bleach began regular publication in 2001. It has been running in Weekly Shonen Jump ever since.","slug":"tite-kubo","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/tite-kubo","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.443454","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14004,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Mei-mei Berssenbrugge","bio":"Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing, the daughter of a Chinese mother and an American father who was the son of Dutch immigrants. Her mother was a mathematician, and her maternal grandmother received a college education in prerevolutionary China. Her father was employed at the American Embassy in Chungking, and later pursued Far Eastern studies at Harvard University. Her family moved to the United States when she was a year old. She earned a BA from Reed College and an MFA from Columbia University. Berssenbrugge is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently A Treatise on Stars (New Directions, 2020). Her other works include The Heat Bird (1983), winner of the American Book Award; Empathy (1989), winner of the PEN West Award; Sphericity (1993); Endocrinology (1997), a collaboration with the artist Kiki Smith; Four Year Old Girl (1998), winner of the Western States Book Award; Nest (2003); I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems (2006); and Hello, the Roses (2013).Berssenbrugge has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two American Book Awards, and honors from the Western States Art Foundation and the Asian American Writers Workshop. She lives in New Mexico.","raw_bio":"Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing, the daughter of a Chinese mother and an American father who was the son of Dutch immigrants. Her mother was a mathematician, and her maternal grandmother received a college education in prerevolutionary China. Her father was employed at the American Embassy in Chungking, and later pursued Far Eastern studies at Harvard University. Her family moved to the United States when she was a year old. She earned a BA from Reed College and an MFA from Columbia University. Berssenbrugge is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently A Treatise on Stars (New Directions, 2020). Her other works include The Heat Bird (1983), winner of the American Book Award; Empathy (1989), winner of the PEN West Award; Sphericity (1993); Endocrinology (1997), a collaboration with the artist Kiki Smith; Four Year Old Girl (1998), winner of the Western States Book Award; Nest (2003); I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems (2006); and Hello, the Roses (2013).Berssenbrugge has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two American Book Awards, and honors from the Western States Art Foundation and the Asian American Writers Workshop. She lives in New Mexico.","slug":"mei-mei-berssenbrugge","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/mei-mei-berssenbrugge","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.452058","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14005,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Jane Alison","bio":"Jane Alison was born in Canberra, Australia, and grew up in the Australian and U.S. foreign services. She attended public schools in Washington, D.C., and earned a B.A. in classics from Princeton University. Before writing fiction, she worked as an administrator for the National Endowment for the Humanities, as a production artist for the Washington City Paper, as an editor for the Miami New Times, and as a proposal and speechwriter for Tulane University. She also worked as a freelance editor and illustrator before attending Columbia University to study creative writing. Her first novel, \"The Love-Artist,\" was published in 2001 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and has been translated into seven languages. It was followed by \"The Marriage of the Sea,\" a New York Times Notable Book of 2003. Her novel, \"Natives and Exotics,\" appeared in 2005 and was one of that summer’s recommended readings by Alan Cheuse of National Public Radio. Her short fiction and critical writing have recently appeared in Seed; Five Points; Postscript: Essays on Film and the Humanities; and The Germanic Review. She has also written several biographies for children and co-edited with Harold Bloom a critical series on women writers. She has taught writing and literature at Columbia, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, and for writers groups in Geneva, Switzerland. Jane Alison's most recent book, \"Nine Island,\" is an autobiographical novel forthcoming from Catapult in Sept. 2016.She is currently Professor and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, VA.","raw_bio":"Jane Alison was born in Canberra, Australia, and grew up in the Australian and U.S. foreign services. She attended public schools in Washington, D.C., and earned a B.A. in classics from Princeton University. Before writing fiction, she worked as an administrator for the National Endowment for the Humanities, as a production artist for the Washington City Paper, as an editor for the Miami New Times, and as a proposal and speechwriter for Tulane University. She also worked as a freelance editor and illustrator before attending Columbia University to study creative writing. Her first novel, \"The Love-Artist,\" was published in 2001 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and has been translated into seven languages. It was followed by \"The Marriage of the Sea,\" a New York Times Notable Book of 2003. Her novel, \"Natives and Exotics,\" appeared in 2005 and was one of that summer’s recommended readings by Alan Cheuse of National Public Radio. Her short fiction and critical writing have recently appeared in Seed; Five Points; Postscript: Essays on Film and the Humanities; and The Germanic Review. She has also written several biographies for children and co-edited with Harold Bloom a critical series on women writers. She has taught writing and literature at Columbia, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, and for writers groups in Geneva, Switzerland. Jane Alison's most recent book, \"Nine Island,\" is an autobiographical novel forthcoming from Catapult in Sept. 2016.She is currently Professor and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, VA.","slug":"jane-alison","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/jane-alison","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.460317","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14006,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Marielle Bancou","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"marielle-bancou","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/marielle-bancou","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.467676","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14007,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Valerie Parv","bio":"Valerie Parv is married to her own romantic hero, Paul, a former crocodile hunter in Australia’s tropical north turned cartoonist. With no children of her own, Valerie is happy to play surrogate mother to her \"rent-a-kids,\" Amelia and Nicholas, and to her agent's delightful twins, Kate and Eliza. \"There I go again with the best of both worlds,\" she says. \"I get all the fun of having children without any of the hard bits, a bit like the babies in my books!\"After many years of living in Sydney, the marriage moved to Australia's capital city, Canberra, where they are surrounded by over half a million trees, making it the most beautiful city in the country. \"I wanted the best of both worlds,\" says Valerie. \"I love the cultural and intellectual stimulation of living in a city, but I also want the beauty and tranquility of the country where I can imagine my love stories and bring them to life on paper.\" Canberra has a thriving writing community and Valerie is well-known there, currently conducting writing courses and having lectured on romance writing at the University of Canberra and given workshops at the Canberra Writers' Center.With over 60 novels since 1982, and 25 million copies of her books sold internationally, including many Waldenbooks bestsellers, Valerie Parv is known as one of the Australia’s queens of romance and is recognized as their media spokesperson for all things romantic. Already a successful writer of nonfiction, Valerie has made love and romance a career. A qualified trainer and counselor, she conducts seminars and workshops on creativity and all aspects of the writing craft based on her two bestselling guides for writers: The Art of Romance Writing and The Idea Factory, adapted as an online course for writers in 2005. Also her short fiction is also regularly featured in national magazines. Valerie continues to write her page-turning novels because they affirm her belief in love and happy endings. As she says says, \"Love gives you wings, romance helps you fly\".","raw_bio":"Valerie Parv is married to her own romantic hero, Paul, a former crocodile hunter in Australia’s tropical north turned cartoonist. With no children of her own, Valerie is happy to play surrogate mother to her \"rent-a-kids,\" Amelia and Nicholas, and to her agent's delightful twins, Kate and Eliza. \"There I go again with the best of both worlds,\" she says. \"I get all the fun of having children without any of the hard bits, a bit like the babies in my books!\"After many years of living in Sydney, the marriage moved to Australia's capital city, Canberra, where they are surrounded by over half a million trees, making it the most beautiful city in the country. \"I wanted the best of both worlds,\" says Valerie. \"I love the cultural and intellectual stimulation of living in a city, but I also want the beauty and tranquility of the country where I can imagine my love stories and bring them to life on paper.\" Canberra has a thriving writing community and Valerie is well-known there, currently conducting writing courses and having lectured on romance writing at the University of Canberra and given workshops at the Canberra Writers' Center.With over 60 novels since 1982, and 25 million copies of her books sold internationally, including many Waldenbooks bestsellers, Valerie Parv is known as one of the Australia’s queens of romance and is recognized as their media spokesperson for all things romantic. Already a successful writer of nonfiction, Valerie has made love and romance a career. A qualified trainer and counselor, she conducts seminars and workshops on creativity and all aspects of the writing craft based on her two bestselling guides for writers: The Art of Romance Writing and The Idea Factory, adapted as an online course for writers in 2005. Also her short fiction is also regularly featured in national magazines. Valerie continues to write her page-turning novels because they affirm her belief in love and happy endings. As she says says, \"Love gives you wings, romance helps you fly\".","slug":"valerie-parv","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/valerie-parv","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.483996","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14008,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Eben Carlson","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"eben-carlson","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/eben-carlson","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:22.497439","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"}