Cassandra Clare. Personal life Clare was born Judith Rumelt, to American parents, in Tehran (Iran). Her parents are Elizabeth and Richard Rumelt, who are a business school professor and author.[4] Her maternal grandfather was film producer Max Rosenberg.[5] Clare is Jewish, and has described her family as "not religious".[6][7] As a child, Clare traveled frequently, spending time in Switzerland, England, and France. She returned to Los Angeles for high school, and from then on split her time between California and New York, where she worked at various entertainment magazines and tabloids, including The Hollywood Reporter.[8] While living in Los Angeles Clare began writing fan fiction using the name Cassandra Claire.
The Draco Trilogy based on Harry Potter and The Very Secret Diaries based on The Lord of the Rings were popular.[9][10] However, she deleted her fan fiction from the Internet shortly before her first novel, The City of Bones, was published under the name Cassandra Clare.[1] Awards City of Bones. Book Four: City of Fallen Angels. J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (/ˈtɒlkiːn/ TOL-keen;[a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1945 to 1959.[1] He was at one time a close friend of C.
S. Lewis—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972. In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[7] Forbes ranked him the 5th top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009.[8] Biography Family origins Most of Tolkien's paternal ancestors were craftsmen. Walter Farley. Walter Farley (born Walter Lorimer Farley, 26 June 1915 in Syracuse, New York – 16 October 1989 in Sarasota, Florida) was the son of Walter Patrick Farley and Isabelle "Belle" L. (Vermilyea) Farley.
He was an American author, primarily of horse stories for children. Educated at Columbia, where he received a B.A. in 1941, his first and most famous work was The Black Stallion (1941). He wrote many sequels, and the series has been continued since his death by his son Steven. Farley's uncle was a professional horseman and taught him various methods of horse training and about the advantages or disadvantages of each method. Farley and his wife, Rosemary, had four children—Pam, Alice, Steven and Tim—whom they raised on a farm in Pennsylvania and in a beach house in Florida. List of books in the Black Stallion series[edit] Others[edit] Kelley Armstrong. Kelley Armstrong (born 14 December 1968)[1] is a Canadian writer, primarily of fantasy novels since 2001.
Biography[edit] Kelley Armstrong was born on 14 December 1968, the oldest of four siblings in a "typical middle class family" in Sudbury, Ontario.[1] After graduating with a degree in psychology from The University of Western Ontario, Armstrong then switched to studying computer programming at Fanshawe College so she would have time to write. Description of Work[edit] In the Otherworld novels to date, most supernatural powers are either hereditary, or arise from the act of an existing supernatural of the same type. Her contemporary fantasy writings share genre similarities with writers Charlaine Harris, Laurell K Hamilton and Kim Harrison.
Kelley Armstrong signing autographs for a fan at a book signing. Bibliography[edit] The Women of the Otherworld series[edit] Thirteen will be the 13th and final book in the Women of the Otherworld series as planned by the author. Cainsville series[edit]