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• James Brendan Patterson


  American author born on March 22, 1947 in Newburgh, New York
• James Brendan Patterson was influenced by Evan S. Connell's 1959 debut novel Mrs. Bridge
• James Brendan Patterson published his first novel in 1976 called The Thomas Berryman Number
• James Brendan Patterson has written 147 novels since 1976, had 114 New York Times bestselling novels, and holds The New York Times record for most #1 New York Times bestsellers by a single author, a total of 67, which is also a Guinness World Record
• James Brendan Patterson's books have sold approximately 305 million copies worldwide
• James Brendan Patterson's awards include the Edgar Award, the BCA Mystery Guild's Thriller of the Year, the International Thriller of the Year award, and the Children's Choice Book Award for Author of the Year
• James Brendan Patterson is the first author to have No. 1 new titles simultaneously on The New York Times adult and children's bestsellers lists, and to have two books on Novel Tracker's top-ten list at the same time
• Nicholas Sparks


  American novelist, screenwriter, and philanthropist
• Nicholas Sparks has published twenty-one novels and two non-fiction books, all of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 115 million copies sold worldwide in more than 50 languages
• Eleven of Nicholas Sparks' novels have been adapted to film, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John, The Last Song, and The Notebook, with a cumulative domestic box office totaling more than $574M
• John Green


  American author and YouTube content creator
• John Green won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, and his fourth solo novel, The Fault in Our Stars, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list in January 2012
• After graduating from college, John Green spent five months working as a student chaplain at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, while enrolled at the University of Chicago Divinity School, although he never actually attended the school
• John Green also critiqued books for The New York Times Book Review and created original radio essays for NPR's All Things Considered and WBEZ, Chicago's public radio station
• The Hunger Games, the first book of a trilogy by Suzanne Collins, was partly inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, and another inspiration was her father's career in the Air Force, which gave her insight to poverty, starvation, and the effects of war
• Suzanne Collins was named one of Time magazine's most influential people of 2010
• Suzanne Collins had become the best-selling Kindle author of all time
• Billy Collins


  American poet
• Billy Collins was born in New York, New York on March 22, 1941
• Billy Collins was Poet Laureate of the United States between 2001 and 2003
• Billy Collins' works were able to connect with the masses and reflect modern American life
• Billy Collins' work is so popular because he uses the everyday situations that most Americans deal with to connect with audiences, catering to middle class Americans and their struggles
• Speculative Fiction


  Genre where the author speculates or assumes upon the results of changing what's real or possible, not how a character would react to a certain event
• Speculative Fiction was first observed and coined by American fictionist Robert Heinlein
• Speculative Fiction


  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Canadian)
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (American)
• Graphic Novel


  A novel in comic strip format, a book format in which a narrative is conveyed with sequential art and a book written and illustrated in the style of a comic book
• Graphic Novels were formally introduced by American Cartoonist, in 1964
• Graphic Novels


  • Watchmen by Allan Moore (English)
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker (Irish)
• Young Adult Fiction


  Fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age, with common themes including friendship, first love, relationships and identity
• Young Adult Fiction


  • The Fault In Our Stars by John Green (American)
  • To all the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han (American)
• Chick Lit


  Fiction genre concentrating on young women and their emotional lives, tackling the issue of modern literary genres
• Chick Lit


  • The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (American)
  • Spellbound by Jane Green (English)
• Fan Fiction


  Fiction about characters or settings from an original work of fiction, created by fans of that work rather than by its creator
• Fan Fiction


  • Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer (American)
• Wattpad


  An Internet community for readers and writers to publish new user-generated stories in different genres, including classics, general fiction, historical fiction, non-fiction, poetry, fanfiction, spiritual, humor and teen fiction