Authors, Playrights & Poets

If you asked a child what an author is (assuming this child can speak and has a decent vocabulary), she'd likely tell you that an author is someone who writes books. If you then asked her what a poet is, she'd probably respond that a poet is someone who writes poems, silly. As people who try hard to be sensible and intelligent, we would be compelled to agree with her.

Why, then, do modern critics, philosophers and educators argue so vehemently that authorship is something altogether different? Why the perceived need to attribute creation to something other than the creator? Ah, the child might say (if she were particularly bright and especially sensible), that question answers itself.

As the Author of all things, God demands recognition. Man, on the other hand, always trying harder than before to dissociate himself from the ultimate Judge of the universe, will even deny his own ability to create if it means that God can't, either. Of course, this flawed logic simply means those who hold it are far less sensible and intelligent than they believe themselves to be, not that God doesn't maintain Authorship of the world and everything in it.

Without authors, Exodus Books wouldn't exist. We depend on selling the work of writers, including educators, historians, theologians, philosophers, poets, mathematicians and novelists (especially poets). Reading their own works is a good way to know what these men and women believe, but reading about them as people can be just as helpful, especially for the work of interpreting sometimes abstruse statements. We hope these biographies help.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
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101 Hymn Stories
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from Kregel Publications
for 6th-12th grade
in History of Hymns (Location: XCH-HYMN)
101 Hymn Stories
by Kenneth Osbeck
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for 6th-12th grade
in History of Hymns (Location: XCH-HYMN)
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by Kenneth Osbeck, read by Wayne Shepherd
from Oasis Audio
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by Kenneth Osbeck
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for 6th-12th grade
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from Puffin Books
for 2nd-5th grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
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by Harold Holzer
from Boyds Mill Press
for 6th-Adult
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by Michael Farr
from Last Gasp
for 4th-10th grade
in Adventures of Tintin (Location: COM-TIN)
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by Agatha Christie
2012 Reissue from William Morrow & Company
for 11th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
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by Geoff & Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
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in Christian Heroes: Then and Now (Location: BIO-BENGE)
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by Lucy M. Montgomery
1st edition from Fitzhenry & Whiteside
for 7th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
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by May McNeer, illustrated by Lynd Ward
from Houghton Mifflin
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Anne Bradstreet
by Heidi L. Nichols
from P&R Publishing
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in Biographies (Location: BIO)
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by D. B. Kellogg
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
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Christian Renegades Series
by Doug Wilson
3rd edition from Canon Press
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$16.95
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by Faith Cook
from Evangelical Press
for 6th-Adult
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by Ruud van der Rol & Rian Verhoeven
from Puffin Books
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by Susan Denyer
from Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
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by Barbara Willard
from Bethlehem Books
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$14.95
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from A Beka Books
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in A Beka Book Report books (Location: REA-ABK)
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by G. K. Chesterton
from Ignatius Press
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in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$18.95
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by Diane Stanley & Peter Vennema
from William Morrow & Company
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in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$9.99
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by Sarah Mackenzie, illustrated by Eileen Ryan Ewen
from Waxwing Books
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$18.99
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in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$22.99
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from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Biography Anthologies (Location: BIO-ANTH)
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by Thomas Fleming
from Sterling Publishing Co.
for 5th-9th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
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by Geoff & Janet Benge
from Emerald Books
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in Heroes of History (Location: BIO-BENGE)
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by R. Conrad Stein
from Rand McNally
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by Carl Van Doren
from Penguin Putnam
for 10th-Adult
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by Carl Van Doren
from Library of America
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by Augusta Stevenson
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Leaders in Action Series
by Doug Wilson
from Cumberland House
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
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by Bill Peet
from Houghton Mifflin
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by Rosemary Sutcliff
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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by Rosemary Sutcliff
from William Morrow & Company
for 6th-10th grade
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for Adult
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by Lillie G. Patterson
from Garrard Publishing Company
for 4th-6th grade
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by Molly Sanchez, illustrated by Larissa Sharina
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for Adult
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by Roger Green & Walter Hooper
from Harcourt
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in Biographies (Location: BIO)
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by Alister McGrath
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for 10th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$24.99
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from Eerdmans
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by Paul Helm
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by Tom Pocock
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for Adult
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by Milton Meltzer
from Twenty-first Century Books
for 9th-Adult
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by Grace Hathaway Melin
from Bobbs-Merril Co
for 3rd-6th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
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by Jean Lee Latham
from Well-Trained Mind Press
for 5th-8th grade
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$36.95
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by Diane Stanley & Peter Vennema
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by Robert Van Nutt, Stewart Ross
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for 4th-6th grade
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by Leslie Alexander Lacy, illustrated by James Barkley
from Dial Press
for 9th-Adult
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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by Kevin Belmonte
from Canon Press
for Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$17.95
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by Laura Benet
from Dodd, Mead & Co.
for 7th-12th grade
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by Dale Ahlquist
from Ignatius Press
for 9th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$18.95
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from Crossway Books
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$34.99
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by Margaret Stanley-Wrench, illustrated by Kenneth Ody
from Hawthorn Books, Inc.
for 7th-10th grade
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by Robert Velarde
from InterVarsity Press
for 9th-Adult
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by David R. Collins
from First Avenue Editions
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by R.W.B. Lewis
from Penguin Putnam
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by Bonnie Christensen
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for 3rd-6th grade
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by Anne Frank
from Bantam Books
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in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$8.99
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by Kathleen V. Kudlinski
Original from Aladdin Paperbacks
Biography for 3rd-6th grade
in Childhood of Famous Americans (Location: BIO-COFA)
$7.99
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by Olivia Coolidge
from Charles Scribner's Sons
Biography for 8th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
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by Louis L'amour
from Bantam Books
for 10th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$8.99
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by Ina Taylor
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 9th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$16.00 (1 in stock)
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by Geoff Benge, Janet Benge
from YWAM Publishing
Biography for 4th-6th grade
in Christian Heroes: Then and Now (Location: BIO-BENGE)
$11.99
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by Sharon James
from Banner of Truth Trust
for 4th-7th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$26.00
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by Olivia Coolidge
from Charles Scribner's Sons
Biography for 8th-10th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
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by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham
from Scholastic Inc.
for 1st-4th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
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by Joann Burch
from Carolrhoda Books, Inc.
for 1st-4th grade
in Clearance: Biographies (Location: ZCLE-BIO)
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by Laura Benet
for 7th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Famous Authors for Young People
by Ramon P. Coffman & Nathan G. Goodman
from Dodd, Mead & Co.
for 6th-10th grade
in Biography Anthologies (Location: BIO-ANTH)
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by John Cournos & Sybil Norton
for 6th-10th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
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by John Cournos & Sybil Norton
from Dodd, Mead & Co.
for 7th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
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by Caroline McAlister, Illustrated by Jessica Lanan
from Roaring Brook Press
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$21.99
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by Katharine Anthony
from Doubleday & Company
for Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
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by Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Jean Shirley
1st edition from Lerner Publishing Group
for 4th-8th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
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by Catherine Drinker Bowen
from Little, Brown & Company
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Francis Scott Key
Sowers Series
by David Collins
from Mott Media
for 5th-7th grade
in Sowers Biographies (Location: BIO-SOW)
$8.99 $5.00 (1 in stock)
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from Emerald Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Heroes of History (Location: BIO-BENGE)
$11.99
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by Wendy G. Lawton
New Edition from Moody Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Daughters of the Faith (Location: SER-DAU)
$7.99
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by June Cummins, with Alexandra Dunietz
from Yale University Press
for 11th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Christian Encounters Series
by Peter Leithart
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 9th-Adult
in Christian Encounters (Location: BIO-CE)
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by Marchette Chute
from Dutton Adult
for 12th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$3.40 (1 in stock)
George Alfred Henty
by George Manville Fenn
from Salem Ridge Press
for 6th-10th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
George Alfred Henty
by George Manville Fenn
from Salem Ridge Press
for 6th-10th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
George Bernard Shaw
by Olivia Coolidge
from Houghton Mifflin
Biography for 8th-12th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
George MacDonald
by Michael R Phillips
Illustrated Edition from Bethany House
for 11th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
George MacDonald
by Michael R Phillips
from Bethany House
for 11th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
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by Mary Ellen Ellsworth
1st edition from Albert Whitman & Company
for 3rd-6th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
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by Jane Stuart Smith & Betty Carlson
3rd edition from Crossway Books
for 6th-12th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$23.99 $12.00 (1 in stock)
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by Beverly Cleary
from HarperCollins
for 3rd-7th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$12.99
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by Jane Stuart Smith & Betty Carlson
from Crossway Books
for 7th-12th grade
in History of Hymns (Location: XCH-HYMN)
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