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Orson Scott Card was born in Richland, Washington, in 1951. He was named after his grandfather, Orson Rega Card, who was the son of Charles Ora Card, the founder of a Mormon colony in Cardston, Canada. His great-grandmother, Zina Young Card, was a daughter of Brigham Young. Orson Scott Card's parents moved the family to San Mateo, California, when he was a baby, and then to Salt Lake City for his father to complete a bachelor's degree after a back injury made him leave his "sign company." After that, they returned to California and settled in Santa Clara.

As a young boy, Card often went to the Santa Clara library to read the books in both the children's section and the adults' section, where he discovered the fairly new genre of science fiction. Card's childhood was fairly normal, but he chose to read unusual books for a young boy, including ThePrince and the Pauper at the age of eight, which first interested him in English history. Card also read other novels that drew him into American history, including the non-fiction The Army of the Potomac by Bruce Catton (which he was given at the age of ten).

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Amy Rose Capetta is an author of YA fantasy, sci-fi, and mystery. Her first novel, Entangled, was a BEA Buzz Book. Her latest, Echo After Echo, is a queer love story wrapped in a murder mystery and set on Broadway. It has received two starred reviews and is a Junior Library Guild selection. Upcoming: The Brilliant Death (Viking 2018), The Lost Coast(Candlewick 2019), Once & Future (co-written with Cori McCarthy, from Little, Brown’s Jimmy Imprint in 2019). She holds a BA in Theater Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from VCFA. Amy Rose is the co-founder of the Rainbow Writers Workshop, the first-ever LGBTQIAP workshop for YA and middle grade. She lives in Vermont with her partner and their young son.

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of our world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide.

In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent “counter-culture” largely because of his concern with environmental issues. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4 / Waterstone’s, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK’s leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century. Please note also that his name is spelt Tolkien (there is no “Tolkein”).

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He was born on 30 April 1971 in Dublin, Ireland. Since a very early age he used to devour major literary works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island. At the age of twelve he developed a keen interest in writing. Therefore, he set out to major in English Literature from the Trinity College, Dublin. Then he studied creative writing at the renowned institution in Norwich, the University of East Anglia. Here he earned the Curtis Brown prize for his literary contribution. Boyne began his writing career with short story writing and made his writing debut with the story, titled “Entertainments Jar”, which was shortlisted for the Hennessy Literary Award. In the early years he mostly wrote short stories and published around 70 of them.

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A first generation American (her parents were Colombian immigrants), Palacio was born on July 13, 1963 in New York City. Her birth name is Raquel Jaramillo (Palacio was her mother's maiden name). Palacio attended The High School of Art & Design in Manhattan, and then majored in illustration at the Parsons School of Design. She spent her junior year at The American University in Paris, where she traveled extensively before returning to NYC with an eye toward making her career in illustration. Her early works appeared in The Village Voice and The New York Times Book Review, which eventually segued into her storied career as the art director of several major book publishing companies. She designed thousands of book covers for countless writers in every genre of fiction and non-fiction, including Paul Auster, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Louise Ehrdrich, Sue Grafton, and John Fowles (among many others).

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Keith O’Sullivan in “The Hobbit, the Tale, Children’s Literature, and the Critics” (Hunt 16–31) presents a wandering argument that The Hobbit is both a distinguished work of children’s literature and something like a classic of the fantasy genre with some literary pretensions, rather than a simplistic and almost embarrassing prequel to The Lord of the Rings. Most Tolkien critics and fans will probably not be surprised to hear this. A greater flaw throughout is that various critical receptions of The Lord of the Rings are extended to The Hobbit, on the grounds that the two books share sufficient literary qualities to justify the appropriation; the critics cited have not been given the chance to consent to this presumption.

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