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As of February 2024, Rippin is Australia's highest-selling woman author and her books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide. [3] Rippin was appointed the Australian Children's Laureate for 2024–2025. In the role she will travel around Australia and promote reading. Her motto is "All kids can be readers". [3]
He wrote his first novel, The Piano Tuner (2002), while still a medical student. It was later the basis for a 2004 opera of the same name (composed by Nigel Osborne to a libretto by Amanda Holden). [2] Mason's second novel, A Far Country, was published in March 2007. [3] North Woods was published in 2023.
We All Want Impossible Things received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews that read, "Newman perfectly captures the beauty and burden of caring for someone in their final moments" and "a warm and remarkably funny book about death and caregiving that will make readers laugh through their tears". [13] Publishers Weekly called it a "moving adult ...
Sanborn has written and co-authored eight books. [13] He has also authored various videos and audio training programs on leadership , change , teamwork and customer service . [ 14 ] His video series “Team Building: How to Motivate and Manage People” made it to the #2 spot for bestselling educational video series in the U.S. [ 15 ]
While she was an MFA student, a creative writing teacher told John's class to never write about dreams. Johns wrote Bad Cree in part as a response to this, advice which Johns disagreed with due to the importance of dreams in Cree culture. [4] It was expanded from her earlier short story of the same name, which won the Journey Prize in 2020. [5]
This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007.
Henríquez attended Northwestern University; she majored in English, graduating in 1999. [8] She then earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. [9] She has described her time in the Iowa program as "a great experience", [10] highly valuable both for validating her writing as well as developing her skills: "I have all my notebooks...and I still open them every once in a while to find ...
Adam Rubin is a #1 New York Times best selling author of children's books. [1] Many of his stories feature animals or food [2] and several contain interactive elements. [3] His books have sold over one million copies. [4]