{"count":17752,"next":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=482","previous":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=480","results":[{"id":26053,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Kiran_Millwood_Hargrave.png","name":"Kiran Millwood Hargrave","bio":"Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award winning poet, playwright, and novelist. Her books include the bestselling winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 The Girl of Ink & Stars, and Costa Book Awards- and Blue Peter Awards-shortlisted The Island at the End of Everything, and The Way Past Winter, Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year 2018. A Secret of Birds & Bone, her fourth middle grade title, was published in 2020. Julia and the Shark, in collaboration with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, was Indie Book of the Month, Scottish Booktrust Book of the Month, and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021.Her debut YA novel The Deathless Girls was published in 2019, and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, and long listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Her first book for adults, The Mercies, debuted as The Times number 1 bestseller, and at number 5 in the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts. Writing for the New York Times Book Review, Emily Barton called it 'among the best novels I've read in years', and it won a Betty Trask Award.She is represented by Hellie Ogden (UK) and Kirby Kim (US) at Janklow & Nesbit. Kiran lives in Oxford with her husband and their cats, Luna and Marly.","raw_bio":"Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award winning poet, playwright, and novelist. Her books include the bestselling winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 The Girl of Ink & Stars, and Costa Book Awards- and Blue Peter Awards-shortlisted The Island at the End of Everything, and The Way Past Winter, Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year 2018. A Secret of Birds & Bone, her fourth middle grade title, was published in 2020. Julia and the Shark, in collaboration with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, was Indie Book of the Month, Scottish Booktrust Book of the Month, and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021.Her debut YA novel The Deathless Girls was published in 2019, and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, and long listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Her first book for adults, The Mercies, debuted as The Times number 1 bestseller, and at number 5 in the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts. Writing for the New York Times Book Review, Emily Barton called it 'among the best novels I've read in years', and it won a Betty Trask Award.She is represented by Hellie Ogden (UK) and Kirby Kim (US) at Janklow & Nesbit. Kiran lives in Oxford with her husband and their cats, Luna and Marly.","slug":"kiran-millwood-hargrave","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/kiran-millwood-hargrave","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:51:58.088654","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26054,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Natasha_Ngan.png","name":"Natasha Ngan","bio":"Natasha Ngan is the New York Times bestselling author of the Girls of Paper and Fire trilogy. She grew up between Malaysia, where the Chinese side of her family is from, and the UK. This multicultural upbringing influences her writing, and she is passionate about bringing diverse stories to readers. Ngan studied Geography at the University of Cambridge before working as a social media consultant and fashion blogger, and yoga teacher.She lives on the west coast of France with her partner and their Staffordshire bull terrier, Nova. She is represented by Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary.Follow Natasha at:  or on Twitter: @girlinthelens","raw_bio":"Natasha Ngan is the New York Times bestselling author of the Girls of Paper and Fire trilogy. She grew up between Malaysia, where the Chinese side of her family is from, and the UK. This multicultural upbringing influences her writing, and she is passionate about bringing diverse stories to readers. Ngan studied Geography at the University of Cambridge before working as a social media consultant and fashion blogger, and yoga teacher.She lives on the west coast of France with her partner and their Staffordshire bull terrier, Nova. She is represented by Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary.Follow Natasha at:  or on Twitter: @girlinthelens","slug":"natasha-ngan","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/natasha-ngan","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:51:58.767625","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26055,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Robyn_Peterman.png","name":"Robyn Peterman","bio":"Robyn writes because the people inside her head won’t leave her alone until she gives them life on paper. Her addictions include shoes (the expensive kind), Coke with extra ice in a styrofoam cup, and bejeweled reading glasses. A former professional actress, she now lives in the south with her family and too many animals to count. Writing gives her a chance to have a job where working in her P.J.’s is acceptable. You can follow Robyn at  and at Facebook ","raw_bio":"Robyn writes because the people inside her head won’t leave her alone until she gives them life on paper. Her addictions include shoes (the expensive kind), Coke with extra ice in a styrofoam cup, and bejeweled reading glasses. A former professional actress, she now lives in the south with her family and too many animals to count. Writing gives her a chance to have a job where working in her P.J.’s is acceptable. You can follow Robyn at  and at Facebook ","slug":"robyn-peterman","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/robyn-peterman","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:52:00.412457","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26056,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Elizabeth_Scott.png","name":"Elizabeth Scott","bio":"Hey there, I'm Elizabeth. I write young adult novels. I live just outside Washington DC with my husband and dog, and am unable to pass a bookstore without stopping and going inside.All right, and I can't leave without buying at least one book.Usually two. (Or more!)My website and blog are at elizabethwrites.com, and I'm also on twitter, tumblr, and facebook","raw_bio":"Hey there, I'm Elizabeth. I write young adult novels. I live just outside Washington DC with my husband and dog, and am unable to pass a bookstore without stopping and going inside.All right, and I can't leave without buying at least one book.Usually two. (Or more!)My website and blog are at elizabethwrites.com, and I'm also on twitter, tumblr, and facebook","slug":"elizabeth-scott","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/elizabeth-scott","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:52:01.689839","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26057,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Kathryn_Le_Veque.png","name":"Kathryn Le Veque","bio":"Juggernaut Indie author Kathryn Le Veque is a 'tour de force' in publishing. Kathryn is a critically acclaimed 21-time USA TODAY Bestselling author, a charter Amazon All-Star author, an Indie Reader top seller, and a #1 bestselling, award-winning, multi-published author in Medieval Historical Romance with over 100 published novels. Among her many accomplishments, she is the CEO of Dragonblade Publishing, the #1 Historical Romance e-book publisher on Amazon. In 2020, Kathryn collaborated with Sourcebooks publishing for a Medieval Fight Club series set in Scotland.","raw_bio":"Juggernaut Indie author Kathryn Le Veque is a 'tour de force' in publishing. Kathryn is a critically acclaimed 21-time USA TODAY Bestselling author, a charter Amazon All-Star author, an Indie Reader top seller, and a #1 bestselling, award-winning, multi-published author in Medieval Historical Romance with over 100 published novels. Among her many accomplishments, she is the CEO of Dragonblade Publishing, the #1 Historical Romance e-book publisher on Amazon. In 2020, Kathryn collaborated with Sourcebooks publishing for a Medieval Fight Club series set in Scotland.","slug":"kathryn-le-veque","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/kathryn-le-veque","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:52:02.307427","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26058,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Dani_Shapiro.png","name":"Dani Shapiro","bio":"Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. She lives with her family in LItchfield County, Connecticut. Her latest memoir, Inheritance, will be published by Knopf in January, 2019.","raw_bio":"Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. She lives with her family in LItchfield County, Connecticut. Her latest memoir, Inheritance, will be published by Knopf in January, 2019.","slug":"dani-shapiro","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/dani-shapiro","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:52:02.869689","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26059,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Jim_DeFelice.png","name":"Jim DeFelice","bio":"My latest book, CODE NAME: JOHNNY WALKER was hailed by Kirkus Review as a “fiery, insightful memoir from the former Iraqi translator who fought alongside U.S. Special Forces during the recent war in Iraq.” They also “a harrowing personal journey of courageous self-empowerment during wartime.” called it an “invaluable insider’s perspective of Iraq.I wrote it with the real \"Johnny Walker,\" who was born and raised in Iraq. His dream of building a better country after the ouster of Sadaam Hussein was dashed by religious and sectarian violence. He risked his own life to help US military track down religious terrorists who targeted innocent Iraqi civilians and American military installations. I first heard about him from Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (who I wrote AMERICAN SNIPER with, who credited Johnny with saving many American and Iraqi lives. Chris noted that Johnny had an uncanny knack for defusing volatile situations, uncovering the right perpetrators who might be hiding in plain sight, and saving several American team member’s lives under fire. With the help of concerned SEALs, Johnny and his family were safely relocated to the U.S., where they are now, as Johnny likes to say, “living the dream.”","raw_bio":"My latest book, CODE NAME: JOHNNY WALKER was hailed by Kirkus Review as a “fiery, insightful memoir from the former Iraqi translator who fought alongside U.S. Special Forces during the recent war in Iraq.” They also “a harrowing personal journey of courageous self-empowerment during wartime.” called it an “invaluable insider’s perspective of Iraq.I wrote it with the real \"Johnny Walker,\" who was born and raised in Iraq. His dream of building a better country after the ouster of Sadaam Hussein was dashed by religious and sectarian violence. He risked his own life to help US military track down religious terrorists who targeted innocent Iraqi civilians and American military installations. I first heard about him from Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (who I wrote AMERICAN SNIPER with, who credited Johnny with saving many American and Iraqi lives. Chris noted that Johnny had an uncanny knack for defusing volatile situations, uncovering the right perpetrators who might be hiding in plain sight, and saving several American team member’s lives under fire. With the help of concerned SEALs, Johnny and his family were safely relocated to the U.S., where they are now, as Johnny likes to say, “living the dream.”","slug":"jim-defelice","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/jim-defelice","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:52:04.206604","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26060,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Sarah_Beth_Durst.png","name":"Sarah Beth Durst","bio":"Sarah Beth Durst is the award-winning author of over twenty books for kids, teens, and adults, including Spark, Drink Slay Love, and The Queens of Renthia series. She won an ALA Alex Award and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for SFWA's Andre Norton Award three times. She is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband, her children, and her ill-mannered cat. Visit her at sarahbethdurst.com.","raw_bio":"Sarah Beth Durst is the award-winning author of over twenty books for kids, teens, and adults, including Spark, Drink Slay Love, and The Queens of Renthia series. She won an ALA Alex Award and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for SFWA's Andre Norton Award three times. She is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband, her children, and her ill-mannered cat. Visit her at sarahbethdurst.com.","slug":"sarah-beth-durst","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/sarah-beth-durst","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:52:04.739222","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26061,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Sara_Desai.png","name":"Sara Desai","bio":"Sara Desai has been a lawyer, radio DJ, marathon runner, historian, bouncer and librarian. She lives on Vancouver Island with her husband, kids and an assortment of forest creatures who think they are pets. Sara writes sexy romantic comedy and contemporary romance with a multicultural twist. When not laughing at her own jokes, Sara can be found eating nachos. Visit Sara at ","raw_bio":"Sara Desai has been a lawyer, radio DJ, marathon runner, historian, bouncer and librarian. She lives on Vancouver Island with her husband, kids and an assortment of forest creatures who think they are pets. Sara writes sexy romantic comedy and contemporary romance with a multicultural twist. When not laughing at her own jokes, Sara can be found eating nachos. Visit Sara at ","slug":"sara-desai","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/sara-desai","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:52:05.408320","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26062,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Sejal_Badani.png","name":"Sejal Badani","bio":"A former attorney, Sejal Badani left the law to pursue writing full time. She is a bestselling author, Goodreads Fiction Award Finalist and ABC/DISNEY Writing Fellowship Finalist. When not writing, she loves reading and traveling. Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, and Ed Sheeran are always playing in the background.","raw_bio":"A former attorney, Sejal Badani left the law to pursue writing full time. She is a bestselling author, Goodreads Fiction Award Finalist and ABC/DISNEY Writing Fellowship Finalist. When not writing, she loves reading and traveling. Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, and Ed Sheeran are always playing in the background.","slug":"sejal-badani","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/sejal-badani","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:52:05.978880","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26063,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/T._Coraghessan_Boyle.png","name":"T. Coraghessan Boyle","bio":"T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twleve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been a Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short story Greasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career, but now also goes by T.C. Boyle.","raw_bio":"T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twleve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been a Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short story Greasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career, but now also goes by T.C. Boyle.","slug":"t-coraghessan-boyle","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/t-coraghessan-boyle","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:52:06.456260","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26064,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Imbolo_Mbue.png","name":"Imbolo Mbue","bio":"Imbolo Mbue is a native of Limbe, Cameroon. She holds a B.S. from Rutgers University and an M.A. from Columbia University. A resident of the United States for over a decade, she lives in New York City. BEHOLD THE DREAMERS is her first novel.","raw_bio":"Imbolo Mbue is a native of Limbe, Cameroon. She holds a B.S. from Rutgers University and an M.A. from Columbia University. A resident of the United States for over a decade, she lives in New York City. BEHOLD THE DREAMERS is her first novel.","slug":"imbolo-mbue","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/imbolo-mbue","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:52:07.048812","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"}