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 her first book, The Goose Girl, an ALA Teens' Top Ten. Enna Burning and River Secrets are companion books to Goose. Princess Academy is a Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Best Seller. Book of a Thousand Days is a Book Sense pick and is on the 2008 Best Books for Young Adults list. Currently Shannon makes her home in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her super-human husband, their indomitable toddler, stunning baby girl, and their pet, a small plastic pig.

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