K. A. Applegate
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Katherine Alice Applegate (born July 19, 1956) is an American author
, best-known as the author of the Animorphs
, Remnants
, Everworld
and other book series, although some of the books in these series are ghostwritten
by other authors. Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She won the Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 in Publishers Weekly. Her book Home of the Brave has won two awards. She has recently written an early chapters series called Roscoe Riley Rules.
on July 19, 1956. Since then she has lived in Texas
, Florida
, California
, Minnesota
, Illinois
, North Carolina
, and after living in Pelago
, Italy
for a year, she has moved back to Irvine
, in Southern California
. In 2003, she and her husband, Michael Grant
, her co-author on many projects including Animorphs
and Everworld
, adopted their daughter, Julia, in China. Following the end of Animorphs, Applegate took three years off. She is back at work and has written a picture book called Buffalo Storm, a middle reader novel called Home of the Brave and an early chapters series Roscoe Riley Rules with HarperCollins
. Her book Home of the Brave has won the SCBWI 2008 Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction, the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award, and is a Judy Lopez Memorial Award honor book.
In 2012 HarperCollins will publish her groundbreaking children's book The One and Only Ivan, which is written from the point of view of a silverback gorilla living in a cage in a mall/video arcade.
Author
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, best-known as the author of the Animorphs
Animorphs
Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...
, Remnants
Remnants
Remnants is a science fiction book series authored by K. A. Applegate between July 2001 and September 2003. It is the story of what happens to the survivors of a desperate mission to save a handful of human beings after an asteroid collides with the Earth...
, Everworld
Everworld
Everworld is a fantasy novel series written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic between 1999 and 2001. It consists of twelve books.-Premise and Plot:...
and other book series, although some of the books in these series are ghostwritten
Ghostwriter
A ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written...
by other authors. Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She won the Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 in Publishers Weekly. Her book Home of the Brave has won two awards. She has recently written an early chapters series called Roscoe Riley Rules.
Biography
Applegate was born in MichiganMichigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
on July 19, 1956. Since then she has lived in Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
, North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
, and after living in Pelago
Pelago
Pelago is a comune in the Province of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 20 km east of Florence. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,396 and an area of 54.8 km²....
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
for a year, she has moved back to Irvine
Irvine, California
Irvine is a suburban incorporated city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mainly developed by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. Formally incorporated on December 28, 1971, the city has a population of 212,375 as of the 2010 census. However, the California...
, in Southern California
Southern California
Southern California is a megaregion, or megapolitan area, in the southern area of the U.S. state of California. Large urban areas include Greater Los Angeles and Greater San Diego. The urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura through the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego...
. In 2003, she and her husband, Michael Grant
Michael Grant (young adult author)
Michael Grant is the co-creator and co-author of the Animorphs and the Everworld book series, and also the creator and author of Gone and The Magnificent 12 series. Michael was raised in a military family, attending ten schools in five states, as well as three schools in France...
, her co-author on many projects including Animorphs
Animorphs
Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...
and Everworld
Everworld
Everworld is a fantasy novel series written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic between 1999 and 2001. It consists of twelve books.-Premise and Plot:...
, adopted their daughter, Julia, in China. Following the end of Animorphs, Applegate took three years off. She is back at work and has written a picture book called Buffalo Storm, a middle reader novel called Home of the Brave and an early chapters series Roscoe Riley Rules with HarperCollins
HarperCollins
HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
. Her book Home of the Brave has won the SCBWI 2008 Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction, the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award, and is a Judy Lopez Memorial Award honor book.
In 2012 HarperCollins will publish her groundbreaking children's book The One and Only Ivan, which is written from the point of view of a silverback gorilla living in a cage in a mall/video arcade.
Recent works
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- The Buffalo Storm
- Roscoe Riley Rules
- Beach Blondes, A Summer Novel
- Tan Lines, A Summer Novel
Animorphs
Companion books
- Megamorphs 1: The Andalite's GiftThe Andalite's Gift (Megamorphs)#1: The Andalite's Gift is the first book in the series, a set of companion books to the Animorphs series. With respect to continuity, it takes place between book #7, The Stranger and book #8, The Alien...
- Megamorphs 2: In the Time of DinosaursIn the Time of Dinosaurs (Megamorphs)#2: In the Time of Dinosaurs is the second book in the series, a set of companion books to the Animorphs series. With respect to continuity, it takes place between book #18, The Decision and book #19, The Departure...
- Megamorphs 3: Elfangor's SecretElfangor's Secret (Megamorphs)Megamorphs #3: Elfangor's Secret is the third book in the Megamorphs series, a spinoff of the Animorphs series. With respect to continuity, it takes place between The Sickness and The Reunion .-Plot summary:...
- Megamorphs 4: Back to BeforeBack to Before (Megamorphs)Megamorphs #4: Back to Before is the fourth and final book in the Megamorphs series, a spinoff of the Animorphs series. With respect to continuity, it takes place between The Other and The Familiar .-Plot summary:...
- The Andalite ChroniclesThe Andalite ChroniclesThe Andalite Chronicles is a science-fiction novel, and is the first companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. Within the timeline of the series, this book takes place before the first book in the series, The Invasion...
- The Hork-Bajir ChroniclesThe Hork-Bajir ChroniclesThe Hork-Bajir Chronicles is the second companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. With respect to continuity within the series, it takes place before book #23, The Pretender, although the events told in the story occur between the time of The Ellimist Chronicles and The...
- The Ellimist ChroniclesThe Ellimist ChroniclesThe Ellimist Chronicles is a children's science-fiction novel, a companion book to the Animorphs series written by K. A. Applegate. It tells the backstory of the Ellimist, a god-like being from the story...
- VisserVisser (novel)Visser is the third companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. Within the continuity of the series, it takes place directly after the events of book #35, The Proposal, but is also in part a detail of the backstory of its narrator, Edriss 562, Visser One, whose host is...
- Alternamorphs 1: The First JourneyThe First Journey (Alternamorphs)Alternamorphs #1: The First Journey is the first book of the Alternamorphs series, a spinoff of the Animorphs series. It involves a second-person narrative so as to allow the reader to actually take part in the story...
(ghostwritten) - Alternamorphs 2: The Next PassageThe Next Passage (Alternamorphs)Alternamorphs #2: The Next Passage is the second and final book of the Alternamorphs series, a spinoff of the Animorphs series. It involves a second-person narrative so as to allow the reader to actually take part in the story...
(ghostwritten)
Remnants
- The Mayflower Project
- Destination Unknown
- Them
- Nowhere Land
- Mutation
- Breakdown
- Isolation
- Mother, May I?
- No Place Like Home
- Lost and Found
- Dream Storm
- Aftermath
- Survival
- Begin Again
Everworld
- Everworld #1: Search for Senna
- Everworld #2: Land of Loss
- Everworld #3: Enter the Enchanted
- Everworld #4: Realm of the Reaper
- Everworld #5: Discover the Destroyer
- Everworld #6: Fear the Fantastic
- Everworld #7: Gateway to the Gods
- Everworld #8: Brave the Betrayal
- Everworld #9: Inside the Illusion
- Everworld #10: Understand the Unknown
- Everworld #11: Mystify the Magician
- Everworld #12: Entertain the End
Making Out
- Zoey Fools Around
- Jake Finds Out
- Nina Won't Tell
- Ben's In Love
- Claire Gets Caught
- What Zoey Saw
- Lucas Gets Hurt
- Aisha Goes Wild
- Zoey Plays Games
- Nina Shapes Up
- Ben Takes a Chance
- Claire Can't Lose
- Don't Tell Zoey
- Aaron Lets Go
- Who Loves Kate?
- Lara Gets Even
- Two-Timing Aisha
- Zoey Speaks Out
- Kate Finds Love
- Never Trust Lara
- Trouble with Aaron
- Always Loving Zoey
- Lara Gets Lucky
- Now Zoey's Alone
- Don't Forget Lara
- Zoey's Broken Heart
- Falling for Claire
- Zoey Comes Home
Miscellaneous
- Harlequin romance novels, as Katherine Kendall
- Girl TalkGirl Talk (books)Girl Talk is series of books by L.E. Blair for teenage girls, telling school adventures of four American teenagers in junior high school: Sabrina, Allison, Randy, and Katie. The series takes place in the fictional small town of Acorn Falls, Minnesota. The books were published by Golden Books.The...
novels, as L.E. Blair - Ocean City series (republished as Making Waves)
- Summer series (this series was originally published as Making Waves in the UK)
- Boyfriends/Girlfriends series (republished as Making Out)
- Barf-O-RamaBarf-O-RamaBarf-O-Rama is a series of children's novellas authored by Pat Pollari, the pseudonym of popular children's author, K.A. Applegate . The stories were humorous, with a strong emphasis on scatological humor and other generally repulsive themes...
series, as Pat Pollari - DisneyThe Walt Disney CompanyThe Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
's The Little Mermaid series - DisneyThe Walt Disney CompanyThe Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
's Aladdin series, as both A.R. Plumb and her own name - Silver Creek Riders series, as Beth Kincaid
- Love Stories series
- The Story of Two American Generals: Benjamin O. Davis Jr. and Colin L. Powell
- The Very Best Jinx McGee
- Disney's Christmas with all the Trimmings: Original Stories and Crafts from Mickey Mouse and Friends
- Disney's Enter if you Dare: Scary Tales from the Haunted Mansion, as Nicholas Stephens
See also
- AnimorphsAnimorphsAnimorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...
- RemnantsRemnantsRemnants is a science fiction book series authored by K. A. Applegate between July 2001 and September 2003. It is the story of what happens to the survivors of a desperate mission to save a handful of human beings after an asteroid collides with the Earth...
- EverworldEverworldEverworld is a fantasy novel series written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic between 1999 and 2001. It consists of twelve books.-Premise and Plot:...
- Making Out (book series)Making Out (book series)Making Out is a series of young adult novels by author K. A. Applegate The series was formerly known as "Boyfriends/Girlfriends." The books were based on the lives of teenagers living on an island called Chatham Island off the coast of Maine. The main characters were Zoey Passmore and her brother...
- David B. Mattingly
- Michael Grant (young adult author)Michael Grant (young adult author)Michael Grant is the co-creator and co-author of the Animorphs and the Everworld book series, and also the creator and author of Gone and The Magnificent 12 series. Michael was raised in a military family, attending ten schools in five states, as well as three schools in France...