{"count":17752,"next":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=518","previous":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=516","results":[{"id":26485,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Mandy_M._Roth.png","name":"Mandy M. Roth","bio":"NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Mandy M. Roth® loves 80s music and movies and wishes leg warmers would come back into fashion. She also thinks the movie The Breakfast Club should be mandatory viewing for…okay, everyone. When she’s not dancing around her office to the sounds of the 80s, she’s busy writing paranormal operatives and kick-butt urban fantasy heroines. Mandy lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husband and three boys. She has sold over 2 million books. Mandy has published with Harlequin, Random House/ Virgin Books, numerous small presses, and has had an amazingly successful indie career. She’s had bestselling books in a multitude of categories and genres at Amazon, Nook, Google Play, Apple Books, and Kobo.","raw_bio":"NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Mandy M. Roth® loves 80s music and movies and wishes leg warmers would come back into fashion. She also thinks the movie The Breakfast Club should be mandatory viewing for…okay, everyone. When she’s not dancing around her office to the sounds of the 80s, she’s busy writing paranormal operatives and kick-butt urban fantasy heroines. Mandy lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husband and three boys. She has sold over 2 million books. Mandy has published with Harlequin, Random House/ Virgin Books, numerous small presses, and has had an amazingly successful indie career. She’s had bestselling books in a multitude of categories and genres at Amazon, Nook, Google Play, Apple Books, and Kobo.","slug":"mandy-m-roth","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/mandy-m-roth","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:57:38.086555","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26486,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Stormie_Omartian.png","name":"Stormie Omartian","bio":"Stormie Omartian is an award-winning bestselling author and speaker who personally connects with readers and listeners by sharing her experiences and illustrating how God transforms lives when we learn to trust in Him.The strength and transparency of Stormie’s message has driven her books to the top of the bestsellers list. More than 26 million copies have been sold worldwide of her \"Power of Praying Series,\" including \"The Power Of Praying For Your Adult Children,\" \"The Power Of A Praying Wife,\" \"The Power Of A Praying Husband,\" \"The Power Of A Praying Woman,\" \"The Power Of A Praying Parent,\" \"The Power Of A Praying Teen,\" and \"The Prayer That Changes Everything.\"Her latest books are her recently updated and re-released bestsellers: \"Power of a Prayer Wife,\" \"Power of a Praying Woman,\" \"Power of a Praying Parent,\" \"Power of Praying for Your Adult Children,\" and \"Power of a Praying Husband.\"In May 2002, \"The Power Of A Praying Wife\" broke a 21-year industry record by claiming the top spot on the Christian Booksellers bestsellers list for 27 consecutive months. From 2001 to 2003, for an unprecedented three years in a row, it was named a finalist for The Charles “Kip” Jordon Christian Book of the Year Award. It has been on the bestsellers list continually for over ten years. It was replaced as number one by \"The Power Of A Praying Husband,\" which was honored in 2002 with a Gold Medallion Award. \"The Power Of A Praying Parent\" has been on the bestsellers list for years. In September of 2002, her prayer series astonishingly held the top four spots on the bestsellers list: 1. \"Praying Wife\" 2. \"Praying Woman\" 3. \"Praying Parent\" 4. \"Praying Husband\" Among other of Stormie’s bestselling books are her autobiography, \"Stormie,\" plus \"Just Enough Light For The Step I’m On,\" \"Lord I Want To Be Whole,\" and \"Praying God's Will For Your Life.\" Michael and Stormie have been married for 40 years and have two married children. If you have any questions for Stormie, please send them her way on her Facebook page, the link is below.-----","raw_bio":"Stormie Omartian is an award-winning bestselling author and speaker who personally connects with readers and listeners by sharing her experiences and illustrating how God transforms lives when we learn to trust in Him.The strength and transparency of Stormie’s message has driven her books to the top of the bestsellers list. More than 26 million copies have been sold worldwide of her \"Power of Praying Series,\" including \"The Power Of Praying For Your Adult Children,\" \"The Power Of A Praying Wife,\" \"The Power Of A Praying Husband,\" \"The Power Of A Praying Woman,\" \"The Power Of A Praying Parent,\" \"The Power Of A Praying Teen,\" and \"The Prayer That Changes Everything.\"Her latest books are her recently updated and re-released bestsellers: \"Power of a Prayer Wife,\" \"Power of a Praying Woman,\" \"Power of a Praying Parent,\" \"Power of Praying for Your Adult Children,\" and \"Power of a Praying Husband.\"In May 2002, \"The Power Of A Praying Wife\" broke a 21-year industry record by claiming the top spot on the Christian Booksellers bestsellers list for 27 consecutive months. From 2001 to 2003, for an unprecedented three years in a row, it was named a finalist for The Charles “Kip” Jordon Christian Book of the Year Award. It has been on the bestsellers list continually for over ten years. It was replaced as number one by \"The Power Of A Praying Husband,\" which was honored in 2002 with a Gold Medallion Award. \"The Power Of A Praying Parent\" has been on the bestsellers list for years. In September of 2002, her prayer series astonishingly held the top four spots on the bestsellers list: 1. \"Praying Wife\" 2. \"Praying Woman\" 3. \"Praying Parent\" 4. \"Praying Husband\" Among other of Stormie’s bestselling books are her autobiography, \"Stormie,\" plus \"Just Enough Light For The Step I’m On,\" \"Lord I Want To Be Whole,\" and \"Praying God's Will For Your Life.\" Michael and Stormie have been married for 40 years and have two married children. If you have any questions for Stormie, please send them her way on her Facebook page, the link is below.-----","slug":"stormie-omartian","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/stormie-omartian","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:57:38.750203","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26487,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/John_Allison.png","name":"John Allison","bio":"John Allison is the author and artist of the British webcomics Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See other authors with similar names.","raw_bio":"John Allison is the author and artist of the British webcomics Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See other authors with similar names.","slug":"john-allison","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/john-allison","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:57:39.757745","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26488,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Daniel_Coyle.png","name":"Daniel Coyle","bio":"Daniel Coyle is the author of the upcoming book The Culture Code (January 2018). He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent, The Secret Race (with Tyler Hamilton), and other books. Winner (with Hamilton) of the 2012 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prize, he is a contributing editor for Outside magazine, and also works a special advisor to the Cleveland Indians. Coyle lives in Cleveland, Ohio during the school year and in Homer, Alaska, during the summer with his wife Jen, and their four children.","raw_bio":"Daniel Coyle is the author of the upcoming book The Culture Code (January 2018). He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent, The Secret Race (with Tyler Hamilton), and other books. Winner (with Hamilton) of the 2012 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prize, he is a contributing editor for Outside magazine, and also works a special advisor to the Cleveland Indians. Coyle lives in Cleveland, Ohio during the school year and in Homer, Alaska, during the summer with his wife Jen, and their four children.","slug":"daniel-coyle","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/daniel-coyle","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:57:40.960112","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26489,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Rachel_Kushner.png","name":"Rachel Kushner","bio":"Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of three novels: the Booker Prize- and NBCC Award–shortlisted The Mars Room; The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times top ten book of 2013; and Telex from Cuba, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her novels are translated into 26 languages. She lives in Los Angeles and wants you to know that if you're reading this and curious about Rachel, whatever is unique and noteworthy in her biography that you might want to find out about is in her new book, The Hard Crowd, which will be published in April 2021. An excerpt of it appeared in the New Yorker here: ","raw_bio":"Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of three novels: the Booker Prize- and NBCC Award–shortlisted The Mars Room; The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times top ten book of 2013; and Telex from Cuba, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her novels are translated into 26 languages. She lives in Los Angeles and wants you to know that if you're reading this and curious about Rachel, whatever is unique and noteworthy in her biography that you might want to find out about is in her new book, The Hard Crowd, which will be published in April 2021. An excerpt of it appeared in the New Yorker here: ","slug":"rachel-kushner","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/rachel-kushner","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:57:41.558887","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26490,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Martha_Grimes.png","name":"Martha Grimes","bio":"Martha Grimes is an American author of detective fiction.She was born May 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to D.W., a city solicitor, and to June, who owned the Mountain Lake Hotel in Western Maryland where Martha and her brother spent much of their childhood. Grimes earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State University, and Montgomery College.Grimes is best known for her series of novels featuring Richard Jury, an inspector with Scotland Yard, and his friend Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who has given up his titles. Each of the Jury mysteries is named after a pub. Her page-turning, character-driven tales fall into the mystery subdivision of \"cozies.\" In 1983, Grimes received the Nero Wolfe Award for best mystery of the year for The Anodyne Necklace.The background to Hotel Paradise is drawn on the experiences she enjoyed spending summers at her mother's hotel in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland. One of the characters, Mr Britain, is drawn on Britten Leo Martin, Sr, who then ran Marti's Store which he owned with his father and brother. Martin's Store is accessible by a short walkway from Mountain Lake, the site of the former Hotel, which was torn down in 1967.She splits her time between homes in Washington, D.C., and Santa Fe, New Mexico.","raw_bio":"Martha Grimes is an American author of detective fiction.She was born May 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to D.W., a city solicitor, and to June, who owned the Mountain Lake Hotel in Western Maryland where Martha and her brother spent much of their childhood. Grimes earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State University, and Montgomery College.Grimes is best known for her series of novels featuring Richard Jury, an inspector with Scotland Yard, and his friend Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who has given up his titles. Each of the Jury mysteries is named after a pub. Her page-turning, character-driven tales fall into the mystery subdivision of \"cozies.\" In 1983, Grimes received the Nero Wolfe Award for best mystery of the year for The Anodyne Necklace.The background to Hotel Paradise is drawn on the experiences she enjoyed spending summers at her mother's hotel in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland. One of the characters, Mr Britain, is drawn on Britten Leo Martin, Sr, who then ran Marti's Store which he owned with his father and brother. Martin's Store is accessible by a short walkway from Mountain Lake, the site of the former Hotel, which was torn down in 1967.She splits her time between homes in Washington, D.C., and Santa Fe, New Mexico.","slug":"martha-grimes","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/martha-grimes","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:57:42.155861","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26491,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Beverly_Jenkins.png","name":"Beverly Jenkins","bio":"Beverly Jenkins is the recipient of the 2017 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for historical romance.She has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Literature, was featured both in the documentary “Love Between the Covers” and on CBS Sunday Morning.Since the publication of Night Song in 1994, she has been leading the charge for inclusive romance, and has been a constant darling of reviewers, fans, and her peers alike, garnering accolades for her work from the likes of The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, and NPR.","raw_bio":"Beverly Jenkins is the recipient of the 2017 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for historical romance.She has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Literature, was featured both in the documentary “Love Between the Covers” and on CBS Sunday Morning.Since the publication of Night Song in 1994, she has been leading the charge for inclusive romance, and has been a constant darling of reviewers, fans, and her peers alike, garnering accolades for her work from the likes of The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, and NPR.","slug":"beverly-jenkins","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/beverly-jenkins","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:57:43.553476","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26492,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Alex_Kava.png","name":"Alex Kava","bio":"ALEX KAVA IS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of the critically acclaimed Maggie O’Dell series and a new series featuring former Marine, Ryder Creed and his K9 dogs. Her stand-alone novel, One False Move, was the 2006 One Book One Nebraska. Published in over thirty countries, Kava’s novels have made the bestseller lists in the UK, Australia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Poland. Her novel Stranded was awarded both a Florida Book Award and the Nebraska Book Award. She is a member of the Nebraska Writers Guild and International Thriller Writers. Kava divides her time between Omaha, Nebraska and Pensacola, Florida.","raw_bio":"ALEX KAVA IS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of the critically acclaimed Maggie O’Dell series and a new series featuring former Marine, Ryder Creed and his K9 dogs. Her stand-alone novel, One False Move, was the 2006 One Book One Nebraska. Published in over thirty countries, Kava’s novels have made the bestseller lists in the UK, Australia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Poland. Her novel Stranded was awarded both a Florida Book Award and the Nebraska Book Award. She is a member of the Nebraska Writers Guild and International Thriller Writers. Kava divides her time between Omaha, Nebraska and Pensacola, Florida.","slug":"alex-kava","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/alex-kava","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:57:44.109597","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26493,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Jeffrey_Ford.png","name":"Jeffrey Ford","bio":"Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he studied with the novelist John Gardner.He lives in southern New Jersey and teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County. He has also taught at the summer Clarion Workshop for science fiction and fantasy writers in Michigan. He has contributed stories, essays and interviews to various magazines and e-magazines including MSS, Puerto Del Sol, Northwest Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Argosy, Event Horizon, Infinity Plus, Black Gate and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.He published his first story, \"The Casket\", in Gardner's literary magazine MSS in 1981 and his first full-length novel, Vanitas, in 1988.","raw_bio":"Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he studied with the novelist John Gardner.He lives in southern New Jersey and teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County. He has also taught at the summer Clarion Workshop for science fiction and fantasy writers in Michigan. He has contributed stories, essays and interviews to various magazines and e-magazines including MSS, Puerto Del Sol, Northwest Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Argosy, Event Horizon, Infinity Plus, Black Gate and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.He published his first story, \"The Casket\", in Gardner's literary magazine MSS in 1981 and his first full-length novel, Vanitas, in 1988.","slug":"jeffrey-ford","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/jeffrey-ford","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:57:45.263372","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26494,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Jennifer____Ryan.png","name":"Jennifer    Ryan","bio":"Jennifer grew up in the British countryside with a penchant for climbing trees and a wonderful grandmother who told her hilarious stories about the Second World War.As an adult, she became a nonfiction book editor, first editing politics and economics at The Economist Books, and then moving on to the BBC, DK, and other publishers, editing books on health, cooking, wine, and history. All this time, though, she harbored a longing to share her grandmother's stories about the war, and so she embarked on an MA in fiction at Johns Hopkins University. The novel that she wrote while there--The Chilbury Ladies' Choir--became a National Bestseller.Please visit Jennifer's website for more information and free giveaways. ","raw_bio":"Jennifer grew up in the British countryside with a penchant for climbing trees and a wonderful grandmother who told her hilarious stories about the Second World War.As an adult, she became a nonfiction book editor, first editing politics and economics at The Economist Books, and then moving on to the BBC, DK, and other publishers, editing books on health, cooking, wine, and history. All this time, though, she harbored a longing to share her grandmother's stories about the war, and so she embarked on an MA in fiction at Johns Hopkins University. The novel that she wrote while there--The Chilbury Ladies' Choir--became a National Bestseller.Please visit Jennifer's website for more information and free giveaways. 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Her book Blue Ocean Strategy, co-authored with W. Chan Kim, has sold 3.6 million copies and is recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written. It is being published in a record-breaking 44 languages and is a bestseller across five continents. Mauborgne is ranked in the top 3 management gurus in the world in the Thinkers50 listing of the World’s Top Management Gurus. She was selected for the 2011 Leadership Hall of Fame by Fast Company magazine and was named among the world's top 5 best business school professors by MBA Rankings. She also received the Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking. She was born in the United States. Mauborgne served on President Barack Obama’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for the President’s two terms. She is also a Fellow of the World Economic Forum.","raw_bio":"Renée Mauborgne is The INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and a Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, the world’s second largest business school. She is also Co-Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. Her book Blue Ocean Strategy, co-authored with W. Chan Kim, has sold 3.6 million copies and is recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written. It is being published in a record-breaking 44 languages and is a bestseller across five continents. Mauborgne is ranked in the top 3 management gurus in the world in the Thinkers50 listing of the World’s Top Management Gurus. She was selected for the 2011 Leadership Hall of Fame by Fast Company magazine and was named among the world's top 5 best business school professors by MBA Rankings. She also received the Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking. She was born in the United States. Mauborgne served on President Barack Obama’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for the President’s two terms. She is also a Fellow of the World Economic Forum.","slug":"renee-mauborgne","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/renee-mauborgne","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:57:48.082871","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"}