FAVORITE AUTHOR

STEPHENIE MEYER

Stephenie Meyer (born December 24, 1973) is an American young-adult fictionwriter and film producer, best known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer was the bestselling author of 2008 and 2009 in America, having sold over 29 million books in 2008, and 26.5 million books in 2009. Twilight was the best-selling book of 2008 in US bookstores.

Life:

Stephenie Meyer was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Stephen and Candy Morgan. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, with five siblings: Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, and Heidi. She attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, where her former English teacher remembered her as "bright but not overly so." She attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where she received a BA in English in 1997. Meyer met her husband, Christian, when she was 4 years old in Arizona, and married him in 1994 when they were both 21. Together they have three sons. Christian Meyer, formerly an auditor, has now retired to take care of the children.

She is my favorite author because:

She's my favorite author not only because I love her books, I have read all the Twilight saga more than 4 times and the guest, and both loved, but it's my favorite because thanks to her knowledge the wonderful world that is reading.

MARIO JAIME 

(From Cabo San Lucas)

Mario Jaime Rivera, studied at the school of the General Society of Writers of Mexico ( SOGEM ); He studied theater at the National Fine Arts Institute . He is a biologist and teacher in Marine Science . Some of his poems and narrative texts have been disseminated in publications Panorama , Alternative , and Isla Negra Puerto Libre , among others.

In 2004 he founded the theater group Maledictio Cassandra , with whom he has filed nine works in various forums of the entity. For three years now produces and hosts the radio program Poiesis . He is the author of the plays The goddess of toys , The tardigrade , The angel of darkness, Trance Blue Swan and The love Nereid , among others, has been a writer and director of the poetic documentary " Goddess in the blue silence " Prime documentary about white sharks in Mexico . For his theater work of Lilith , the writer and director , National Playwriting Award 2007 , which announces the Cultural Institute of Baja California and the National Institute of Fine Arts ( INBA ) contract .

J.K. ROWLING

Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE FRSL  (born 31 July 1965), pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history, and been the basis for a series of films which has become thehighest-grossing film series in history. Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and maintained creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment.

Life:

Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964.They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born inLamlash on the Isle of Arran.^[28] Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. Rowling originally believed he had won the Légion d'honneur, as she said when she received it herself in 2009; she later discovered the truth when featuring in an episode of the UK genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?.

She's my favorite author because:

I really do not like to read, in my 17 years of life I have only read a few that I lend my friend and harry Potter books by JK Rowling and LOVED, she easily my favorite author is returned.

JOSE MANUEL LARUMBE

(From Cabo San Lucas)

The development of big ideas takes time, and the product of this timeout, besides the great desire to help was the presentation of the book "THINK IT" written by Dr. José Manuel Larumbe. 

The book was presented at a press conference by the author contains messages and poems of life, inspiring or just phrases for everyday, messages and poems to give to those who read, a feel good because one of the concerns its author is the large number of suicides that occur year after year in Cabo San Lucas, and in the State of Baja California Sur, so hopes to contribute a bit helping and inspiring people with the opportunity reading the material presented today.

JOHN GREEN

John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author of young adult fiction, YouTube video blogger and creator of online educational videos. He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, and his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars debuted at number 1on The new york times Best seller list in January 2012. In 2014 Green was incluided in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Life:

Green was born in Indianapolis to Mike and Sydney Green and his family moved three weeks after he was born to Orlando, Florida. He attended Lake Highland Preparatory School and Indian Springs School (which he later used as the main setting for Looking for Alaska), a boarding and day school outside of Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 with a double major in English and Religious Studies. He has spoken about being bullied as a teenager and how it made life miserable for him.

After graduating from college, Green spent five months working as a student chaplain in a children's hospital while enrolled at the University of Chicago Divinity School (although he never actually attended the school). He intended to become an Episcopal priest, but his experiences of working in a hospital with children suffering from life-threatening illnesses inspired him to become an author, and later to write The Fault in Our Stars.

Green lived for several years in Chicago, where he worked for the book review journal Booklist as a publishing assistant and production editor while writing Looking for Alaska. While there, he reviewed hundreds of books, particularly literary fiction and books about Islam or conjoined twins. He has also critiqued books for The New York Times Book Review and written for NPR's All Things Considered and WBEZ, Chicago's public radio station. Green later lived in New York City for two years while his wife attended graduate school.

He's my favorite author because:

Although most of his books speak of terminal illness and death, I really like the way he talks about it, play with it and despite the fact that I have not read all his books, I've read I've loved and made me laugh much.

MARIA FAUSTINA WILKES

(From Cabo San Lucas)

"The San Lucas I met" is not just a book containing the story of a view from the eyes of a people person, but the stories that his contemporaries and those who were adults before she handed him the stories his parents, uncles, friends told him and told him; doubt that her aunts, mother, and some personalities who are still living in their hometown, but suddenly I no longer see well, dispelled. It is a work in which you can find the names of all those who gave life to Cabo San Lucas, Cabo San Lucas at the first official name was given.

PAULO COEHLLO 

Paulo Coelho from Souza is a novelist, playwright and lyricist Brazilian. It is one of the most widely read writers in the world with over 150 million books sold in more than 150 countries, translated into 80 languages​​.

Paulo Coelho was born on August 24 in 1947 in a small upper middle class and strong Catholic influence, in Rio de Janeiro. His parents were Pedro Coelho de Souza Queima and Lygia Araripe, engineering profession and museographer respectively.

He is my favorite author because:

It has an interesting and thoughtful way of looking at life, makes you think what are you doing with it, and encourages you to keep going.