New York Times best selling author Shannon Hale started writing books at age ten and never stopped, eventually earning an MFA in Creative Writing. After nineteen years of writing and dozens of rejections, she published The Goose Girl, the first book in her award-winning Books of Bayern series, followed by Enna Burning, River Secrets, and Forest Born. She has two standalone books for young readers—Book of a Thousand Days, a Cybils award winner, and Princess Academy, a Newbery Honor Book. Shannon makes her home near Salt Lake City, Utah, with her super-human husband, their four children, and their pet, a small plastic pig.

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