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Caprice Crane is an American novelist, musician, screenwriter and television writer/producer. Caprice Crane's first novel was Stupid & Contagious (2006), her second was Forget About It (2007), which is being made into a major motion picture at Disney starring Scarlett Johansson. Both her first and second books won Romantic Times Reader's Choice ... Full story

Jackie Collins is an English novelist and former actress. Jackie is the younger sister of actress Joan Collins. To date, Jackie Collins has written 27 novels, all of which have been on the New York Times bestsellers list and have sold over 400 million copies worldwide. Recent bestsellers were Lovers & Players ... Full story

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian author, poet, critic, essayist, feminist and social campaigner. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning ... Full story

Brook Busey, better known by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American screenwriter, writer, blogger, journalist, and author. She currently appears in a sitcom created by Cody, called United States of Tara, the U.S. cable TV network Showtime, the Canadian channel The Movie Network and The Australian ... Full story

John Hodgman is an American voice actor, author and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require, he is known for his personification of a PC in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertising campaign and his correspondent work on Comedy ... Full story

Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.Stan Lee co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters, and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. Source – ... Full story

J. K. Rowling, an author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have sold more than 400 million copies. Aside from writing the Potter novels, J. K. Rowling has become a ... Full story

Tara Moss is a Canadian-Australian author and former model. Her books are published in 15 countries in 10 languages and include the internationally best-selling and critically acclaimed crime novels Fetish, Split, Covet and Hit, and her forthcoming novel "Siren". She also hosts the crime documentary series Tara Moss Investigates on the National Geographic Channel ... Full story

Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, Richard Dawkins made a widely cited contribution to evolutionary biology with the concept, presented in his book ... Full story

Stephenie Meyer is best known for her vampire romance series Twilight. Twilight is a series of four vampire-based fantasy/romance novels ( Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn) by the American author Stephenie Meyer. It follows the life of Isabella “Bella” Swan, a teenager who moves to Forks, Washington, and finds her life radically ... Full story