Gina Cascone is an American author and screenwriter.
Gina Cascone is an author and TV script writer. She has written two memoirs; Pagan Babies and Other Catholic Memories, a child's eye view of her years in Catholic school, and Life al Dente: Laughter and Love in an Italian American Family. She has been a syndicate writer for 17th Street, Parachute Press, and other series books for young readers. She has also co-authored teen thrillers, and a satire of Cliffs Notes with her sister Annette Cascone. Gina and Annette also wrote the Deadtime Stories series of middle-grade chillers, originally published under the name A.C. Cascone. The sisters also wrote several episodes of the Nickelodeon TV series, based on the books. [1] She is also the screenwriter (along with Annette Cascone) of the 1990 feature film, Mirror, Mirror. Gina has also written two picture books with her daughter, Bryony Williams Sheppard, for Sleeping Bear Press; Around the World Right Now and Unicorn Yoga.
Annette Joanne Funicello was an American actress and singer. She began her professional career at age 12, becoming one of the most popular Mouseketeers on the original Mickey Mouse Club. In her teenage years, Funicello had a successful career as a pop singer recording under the name "Annette". Her most notable singles are "O Dio Mio", "First Name Initial", "Tall Paul", and "Pineapple Princess". During the mid-1960s, she established herself as a film actress, popularizing the successful "Beach Party" genre alongside co-star Frankie Avalon.
Michael Hague is an American illustrator, primarily of children's fantasy books.
Peter Soyer Beagle is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially of fantasy fiction. His best-known work is The Last Unicorn (1968) which Locus subscribers voted the number five "All-Time Best Fantasy Novel" in 1987. During the last twenty-five years he has won several literary awards, including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011. He was named Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by SFWA in 2018.
Cliff Wright is an artist, book illustrator and advertising artist.
Ron Haydock was an American actor, screenwriter, novelist and rock musician.
Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman, née Friesner is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is also a poet and playwright. She is best known for her humorous style of writing, both in the titles and the works themselves. This humor allows her to discuss with broader audiences issues like gender equality and social justice.
Jan Brett is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. Her colorful, detailed depictions of a wide variety of animals and human cultures range from Scandinavia to Africa. Her titles include The Mitten, The Hat, and Gingerbread Baby. She has adapted or retold traditional stories such as the Gingerbread Man and Goldilocks and has illustrated classics such as "The Owl and the Pussycat."
Claudio Fragasso is a film director and screenwriter. Fragasso first attempted to make art films in the early 1970s, then became a screenwriter in the Italian film industry in the mid-1970s. Fragasso met director Bruno Mattei, which led to a ten-year partnership from 1980 to 1990 during which the two worked together closely on films, with Fragasso's contributions often going uncredited. Fragasso's wife Rossella Drudi was also a screenwriter and collaborated with him on a number of projects. Fragasso would later go on to write and direct his own films in the 1980s, including Monster Dog with rock musician Alice Cooper and After Death. Fragasso directed Troll 2 in 1989, which was later the topic of Best Worst Movie, a documentary film that discussed Troll 2's fandom.
Swami Rama was an Indian yoga guru. He moved to the US in 1969, initially teaching yoga at the YMCA, and founding the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in Illinois in 1971; its headquarters moved to its current location in Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1977. He became famous for his ability to control his body in yoga nidra, writing many books including the autobiographical Living with Himalayan Masters. From the 1970s onwards, there were persistent allegations of sexual abuse of his followers; in 1997 a woman won a lawsuit against him for multiple sexual assaults.
Kelly Adam Asbury was an American film director, writer, voice actor, and illustrator. He was best known for directing animated films, including Shrek 2, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Gnomeo & Juliet, Smurfs: The Lost Village, and UglyDolls.
This is a list of the works of Mercer Mayer.
Shivers is a series of thirty-six children's horror novels written by M.D. Spenser. These are horror novels, each 120-125 pages long, for readers between the ages of 8 and 14. The series was created during the popularity of the Goosebumps series, and it has a similar style.
Piper Reese is an American actress, television presenter, MPAA-accredited entertainment reporter, and Internet celebrity who hosts her own podcasts and YouTube series, Piper's Picks TV, Teen Tech Talk and InsPIPERation. Reese is the older of two children. As an actress, Piper is best known for playing Nancy Patanski on the Nickelodeon drama series Deadtime Stories. She launched an online scripted sketch comedy series entitled That's So Sketch in 2016. Reese has been working on her web shows since 2007. Piper Reese has been known by her fans as the "Piperazzi" since around 2012 and among both viewers and journalists as the "Princess of the Press."
Alane Ferguson is an American author. She won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery novel in 1990 for Show Me the Evidence.
Deadtime Stories is a series of children's horror fiction novels created by authors Annette Cascone and Gina Cascone writing under the name AG Cascone.
Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa is a teacher of Kundalini yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, and a pioneer in the field of pre-natal yoga. She is the co-founder and director of the Golden Bridge Yoga Center in Los Angeles, and the author of two books and three DVDs. She has become a yoga guru for Hollywood film stars.
Annette Cascone is an American author and screenwriter. She lives in New Jersey.
Susan Konig is an American author and publisher who currently resides in Bronx, New York.
J. R. R. Tolkien, a fantasy author and professional philologist, drew on the Old English poem Beowulf for multiple aspects of his Middle-earth legendarium, alongside other influences. He used elements such as names, monsters, and the structure of society in a heroic age. He emulated its style, creating an impression of depth and adopting an elegiac tone. Tolkien admired the way that Beowulf, written by a Christian looking back at a pagan past, just as he was, embodied a "large symbolism" without ever becoming allegorical. He worked to echo the symbolism of life's road and individual heroism in The Lord of the Rings.