Katherine Alice Applegate
pen name: Jamie Suzanne (shared pseudonym for Sweet Valley Twins) and K. A. Applegate (when co-authoring with uncredited husband, Michael Grant.)
born Ann Arbor, Michigan: 9 October 1956
Katherine Applegate is an American author of children's fantasy, children’s science fiction, YA romance and children’s adventure novels.
Her first published work was as a ghostwriter for Sweet Valley Twins, tie-ins to Sweet Valley High TV show.
She is best known for creating and writing the huge Animorphs series, and for the Everworld series, both of which are often co-authored with her husband, the writer Michael Grant, or else ghostwritten by a variety of other authors.
The Animorphs series, beginning with Animorphs: The Invasion (1996) which concern a group of adolescent children with shapeshifting powers, given by unknown extraterrestrial technology, who battle against invading parasitic slug-like aliens called the Yeerks.
The Everworld series, beginning with Everworld: Search for Senna (1999) concerns five children in an alternative fantasy world.
She is also known for the Remnants series, concerning a space shuttle crew of adolescent children, who are among 80 survivors after an asteroid strikes Earth; for the non-SFF Making Out series; and the Ivan & Friends series, beginning with The One and Only Ivan (2012); with an apes as humans theme.
Her children’s series often turn up as answers to queries in our SFF Chronicles Book Search forum. Usually, it’s for Remnants or Everworld.
A list of her works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: K. A. Applegate
Wikipedia page: Katherine Applegate - Wikipedia
pen name: Jamie Suzanne (shared pseudonym for Sweet Valley Twins) and K. A. Applegate (when co-authoring with uncredited husband, Michael Grant.)
born Ann Arbor, Michigan: 9 October 1956
Katherine Applegate is an American author of children's fantasy, children’s science fiction, YA romance and children’s adventure novels.
Her first published work was as a ghostwriter for Sweet Valley Twins, tie-ins to Sweet Valley High TV show.
She is best known for creating and writing the huge Animorphs series, and for the Everworld series, both of which are often co-authored with her husband, the writer Michael Grant, or else ghostwritten by a variety of other authors.
The Animorphs series, beginning with Animorphs: The Invasion (1996) which concern a group of adolescent children with shapeshifting powers, given by unknown extraterrestrial technology, who battle against invading parasitic slug-like aliens called the Yeerks.
The Everworld series, beginning with Everworld: Search for Senna (1999) concerns five children in an alternative fantasy world.
She is also known for the Remnants series, concerning a space shuttle crew of adolescent children, who are among 80 survivors after an asteroid strikes Earth; for the non-SFF Making Out series; and the Ivan & Friends series, beginning with The One and Only Ivan (2012); with an apes as humans theme.
Her children’s series often turn up as answers to queries in our SFF Chronicles Book Search forum. Usually, it’s for Remnants or Everworld.
A list of her works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: K. A. Applegate
Wikipedia page: Katherine Applegate - Wikipedia
