James Patterson: A Brief Biography

His education was astounding. While he was in high school he was considered the class clown and made C averages. After high school graduating Penncrest High School in 1962, he joined the United States Navy. He served a four year term in the Navy before continuing his education. He got his bachelor's degree in Gallaudet University in 1970 . His Master's degree in Psychology at University of Tennessee in 1971. He also got his PHD in Psychology

David Brainerd was born in on April 20, 1718 to Hezekiah Brainerd, Esq, and Dorothy Hobart. He had four brothers and four sisters. Most of his brothers ended up in the ministry, although those that did not were respectable upright people. David's father died when he was nine and his mother died five years later when David was fourteen, so at a very young David was fatherless and motherless.1

be a Fantasy too.Personally, I like to read fiction books, because I like to imagine things. Judy Blume was born in February 12, 1938. She is an American writer known for children and young adult, also her books are all fiction. She spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. Her twenty-four books have won more than ninety awards, none more important than those coming from younger readers.

The author of the story Battle Royal, Ralph Ellison was born on March 1, 1914 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, studied music before moving to New York City and working as a writer. He published his bestselling, acclaimed first novel Invisible Man in 1952; it would be seen as a seminal work on marginalization from an African-American protagonist's perspective. Ellison's unfinished novel Juneteenth was published posthumously in 1999 (biography.com).

Jordan Burroughs is hailed as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Burroughs holds an impressive list of accomplishments but he wasn’t athletically gifted like many others. He had to put in hours of workouts and practice in order to be successful at the sport and much of his time resulted in trial and error in order for him to be successful.

Bryan Stevenson was born on November 14, 1959 in Milton, Delaware. His father, Howard Carlton Stevenson, Sr., had grown up in Milton, Delaware as well. His father left the area as a teen because there had been no colored high school nearby (Stevenson, 2014). He later returned with Bryan’s mother, Alice Gertrude Stevenson. Both parents would commute to the northern part of the state for work. His dad worked at a General Foods processing plant as a lab technician. His mother had a civilian job at an Air Force bar, she was a bookkeeper at Dover Air Force Base and became an equal opportunity officer. Stevenson has two siblings: an older brother Howard, Jr. and a sister Christy. As a child, Stevenson dealt with segregation and its legacy. He spent

Author’s biography- John Grisham was born February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. As a child, John had wanted to be a professional baseball player. When he realized he didn’t have enough talent to be a pro, he switched gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University.

Patrick Rothfuss was born on June 6, 1973 in Madison, Wisconsin. He was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin and currently lives there with his wife and children. When Patrick was growing up he had a passion for writing short stories and poetry that inevitably helped him in his future endeavors as he would eventually become a well-known author. Patrick is best known as the author behind bestselling books; The Name of the Wind, The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle and Wise Man’s Fear. Some of Patrick’s great accomplishments came from his great book, The Name of the Wind, which made the New York Times Bestseller List and won the Quill Award, a consumer-driven American Literary award. Patrick also reached #1 on the New York Bestseller

Bradbury was born August 22 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. At the age of 12 or 13 he made a decision of becoming a writer. He made this decision because he wanted to “live forever through his fiction”

Ironically, he didn’t begin his writing journey until 1986. Before then, he was a field geophysicist, among other occupations. He attended Syracuse, where he would later return to teach in 1996. He took off as a tech writer that blossomed into the author of multiple short stories. He soon established a relationship with one of the most popular magazines in the United States, The New Yorker.

After high school, he enrolled into New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and graduated in 2006 with a degree in dramatic writing. Soon after he made comedy videos with his former classmates who created the troupe called Derrick Comedy. The beginning of career/impact

“Preston Cartwright” aka Anthony Martinez: Private detective, oldest member of the group, around 70 but has the heart of a 30 year old, dressed rather casually to be on such an extravagant trip, typically wearing sweatpants and hoodies. Lives alone, never married, has no children. A bit depressed, doesn’t seem to show much emotion on the outside. Not very smart academically, but very smart logically and very sarcastic. He’s a judgemental of everyone he meets, himself more than anyone. As a private detective, he has had to kill people that were putting others in danger, and it somewhat gave him a high.

Henry James, the famous author of ‘The Turn of the Screw’ was born on April 15, 1843 to his wealthy parents Henry James and Mary Walsh. His father, also called Henry James, was an Irish immigrant and by the time his own children were born he had inherited a lot of money from his father; and at this time Henry James senior and his family were living in New York.

Clive Staples Lewis, also known as C.S Lewis was born on November 29 in 1963. He was born in Belfast, North Ireland. Since he was born there he became undoubtedly attached to North Ireland and became used to it there. Living his life, he found out that he really liked literature and myths, so he became an author, wrote essays, and also became a Christian apologist. One of the most common book series that you think of when you hear this name is Narnia.

     Patterson writes with extreme detail and plot development. He can describe a characters entire facial appearance and background. Since Cross has a PhD in psychology, he is always evaluating criminals, getting into their mind is his job. He weaves a tale of what the criminal did as a young boy or as a college student that turned him evil. He connects the actions of the criminal to their past. The description that he is able to put into his books blows any other author out of the water. Describing a cars engine as it goes around a tight turn