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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
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he's a husband and father who loves church, good food, and weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.

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	26 Fairmont Avenue by Tomie De Paola from Puffin Books for 2nd-5th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $6.99 $4.00 (1 in stock)
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	America's Mark Twain by May McNeer, illustrated by Lynd Ward from Houghton Mifflin for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Augustine Farmer's Boy of Tagaste by P. de Zeeuw from Inheritance Publications Biography for 4th-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $7.95
	Augustine Came to Kent Bethlehem Books Living History Library by Barbara Willard from Bethlehem Books Biography for 5th-8th grade in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $14.95
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	Ben Franklin Inventing America Sterling Point Books by Thomas Fleming from Sterling Publishing Co. for 5th-9th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
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	Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, and Patriot by R. Conrad Stein from Rand McNally Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $3.00 (2 in stock)
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	Biography of Benjamin Franklin An American Genius Sons of Liberty Series by William M. Thayer from A Beka Books for 5th-9th grade in A Beka Book Report books (Location: REA-ABK)
	Booker T. Washington Leader of His People A Discovery Book by Lillie G. Patterson from Garrard Publishing Company for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Brothers Grimm by Raymond H. Miller from Thomson Learning for 4th-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Carry On, Mr. Bowditch - Audio CD by Jean Lee Latham from Well-Trained Mind Press for 5th-8th grade in Audio Books & Dramas (Location: CD-AUDIO) $32.95
	Charles Dickens The Man Who Had Great Expectations by Diane Stanley & Peter Vennema from William Morrow & Company Picture Book Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre by Robert Van Nutt, Stewart Ross 1^st edition from Viking Press for 4th-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Daring Nellie Bly America's Star Reporter by Bonnie Christensen 1^st edition from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for 3rd-6th grade in Clearance: Biographies (Location: ZCLE-BIO)
	Dr. Seuss: Young Author and Artist Childhood of Famous Americans 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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	Elizabeth Prentiss More to Love Thee by Sharon James from Banner of Truth Trust for 4th-7th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $26.00
	Frances Hodgson Burnett: Beyond the Secret Garden by Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Jean Shirley 1^st edition from Lerner Publishing Group for 4th-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Frederick Douglass: The Right to Dignity from Emerald Books for 3rd-6th grade in Heroes of History (Location: BIO-BENGE) $11.99
	Freedom's Pen A Story Based on the Life of Freed Slave and Author Phillis Wheatley Daughters of the Faith by Wendy G. Lawton New Edition from Moody Press for 3rd-6th grade in Daughters of the Faith (Location: SER-DAU) $7.99
	Gertrude Chandler Warner and the Boxcar Children by Mary Ellen Ellsworth 1^st edition from Albert Whitman & Company for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary from HarperCollins for 3rd-7th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $10.39
	Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers by Jean Fritz from PaperStar Books Biography for 5th-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $6.99
	Helen Keller by Margaret Davidson from Scholastic Inc. Biography for 2nd-5th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $5.99 $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph Childhood of Famous Americans by Katharine Elliot Wilkie from Aladdin Paperbacks Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Childhood of Famous Americans (Location: BIO-COFA) $7.99
	Henry David Thoreau American Naturalist, Writer, and Transcendentalist by Steven P. Olson from Rosen Central for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz from Penguin Putnam for 4th-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Invincible Louisa The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs from Little, Brown & Company Biography for 5th-8th grade 1934 Newbery Medal winner in Biographies (Location: BIO) $13.99
	Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs from Little, Brown & Company for 5th-8th grade 1934 Newbery Medal winner in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	It Can't Be Done, Nellie Bly! by Nancy Butcher 1^st edition from Peachtree Publishers, Ltd. for 4th-6th grade in Clearance: Biographies (Location: ZCLE-BIO)
	Joni's Story Today's Heroes by Joni Eareckson Tada from Zondervan Biography for 4th-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Journey That Saved Curious George The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H. A. Rey by Louise W. Borden from HMH Books for Young Readers for 3rd-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $8.99
	Journey That Saved Curious George The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H. A. Rey by Louise W. Borden, illustrated by Allan Drummond from The PJ Library for 3rd-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Kate Douglas Wiggin The Little Schoolteacher Childhood of Famous Americans by Dharathula H. Millender from Bobbs-Merril Co for 3rd-6th grade in Childhood of Famous Americans (Location: BIO-COFA)
	Laura Ingalls Wilder A Storybook Life Heroes of History by Geoff & Janet Benge from Emerald Books Biography for 4th-7th grade in Heroes of History (Location: BIO-BENGE) $11.99
	Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography by William Anderson from HarperTrophy for 4th-10th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $9.99
	Laura Ingalls Wilder: Young Pioneer Childhood of Famous Americans by Beatrice Gormley from Aladdin Paperbacks Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Childhood of Famous Americans (Location: BIO-COFA) $7.99
	Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley from HarperCollins Biography for 3rd-6th grade 1997 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award in Biographies (Location: BIO) $11.99
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	Lew Wallace, Boy Writer by Martha E. Schaaf from Patria Press, Inc. Biography for 4th-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
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	Louisa May Alcott: Her Life by Catherine Owens Peare, illustrated by Margaret Ayer from Henry Holt and Company for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Louisa May Alcott: Young Novelist Childhood of Famous Americans by Beatrice Gormley from Aladdin Paperbacks Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Childhood of Famous Americans (Location: BIO-COFA) $7.99
	Mahalia Jackson Sowers Series by Evelyn Witter from Mott Media for 4th-6th grade in Sowers Biographies (Location: BIO-SOW) $8.99 $5.00 (3 in stock)
	Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi by Cheryl Harness from Aladdin Paperbacks Biography for 2nd-5th grade in Western Expansion (1800-1898) (Location: HISA-19WES)
	Mark Twain and the River by Sterling North Reprint from Puffin Books for 5th-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $6.99
	Mark Twain: Writing About the Frontier by Jean Rikhoff for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Mark Twain: Young Writer Childhood of Famous Americans by Mariam E. Mason from Aladdin Paperbacks Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Childhood of Famous Americans (Location: BIO-COFA) $7.99
	Meet Maya Angelou by Valerie Spain from Random House for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Moon & I by Betsy Byars from Beech Tree Books for 5th-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $3.50 (2 in stock)
	Noah Webster: Father of the American Dictionary by Isabel Proudfit 13th printing from Julian Messner for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	O Captain, My Captain Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War by Robert Burleigh; illustrated by Sterling Hundley from Harry N. Abrams, Inc. for 3rd-8th grade in American Civil War (1860-1865) (Location: HISA-19CW) $19.99
	Oh, the Places He Went Creative Minds Biographies by Maryann N. Weidt, Illustrated by Kerry Maguire from First Avenue Editions for 3rd-5th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Pen and Bayonet The Story of Joyce Kilmer by Norah Smaridge, illustrated by June Roberts First Printing from Hawthorn Books, Inc. for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $20.00 (1 in stock)
	Piece of the Mountain Story of Blaise Pascal by Joyce McPherson from Greenleaf Press Biography for 5th-9th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $8.00 (3 in stock)
	Play's the Thing by Ruth Turk from Carolrhoda Books, Inc. for 4th-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Prairie Town Boy by Carl Sandburg, illustrated by Joe Krush from Harcourt Autobiography for 5th-8th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	River-Boy Story of Mark Twain by Isabel Proudfit 1958 Printing from Julian Messner for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Self-Portrait: Trina Schart Hyman from Harper & Row for 4th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Story of Benjamin Franklin Grosset & Dunlap Signature #5 by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft, illustrated by Edward A. Wilson from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Dan Beard Founder of America's Boy Scouts Grosset & Dunlap Signature #43 by Robert N. Webb, illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe Cornerstones of Freedom by R. Conrad Stein from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe Cornerstones of Freedom by Maureen Ash from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Helen Keller Grosset & Dunlap Signature #45 by Lorena A. Hickok, illustrated by Jo Polseno from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Louisa May Alcott Grosset & Dunlap Signature #35 by Joan Howard, illustrated by Flora Smith from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Marco Polo Grosset & Dunlap Signature #22 by Olive Price, illustrated by Frederico Castellon from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Mark Twain Signature Books #23 by Joan Howard, illustrated by Donald McKay from Grosset & Dunlap Biographies for 4th-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Robert Louis Stevenson Grosset & Dunlap Signature #42 by Joan Howard, illustrated by Jo Polseno from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Theodore Roosevelt Grosset & Dunlap Signature #14 by Winthrop Neilson, illustrated by Edward A. Wilson from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	This is M. Sasek The Extraordinary Life and Travels of the Beloved Children's Book Illustrator by Olga Cerna, Pavel Ryska, and Martin Salisbury from Universe Publishing for 1st-6th grade in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
	To Be a Pilgrim The Story of John Bunyan by Joyce Reason 1980^th edition from Christian Literature Crusade for 4th-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $3.50 (1 in stock)
	Ugly: A Memoir by Robert Hoge from Puffin Books for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	What Made Them Great: Anne Frank What Made Them Great by Laura Tyler, Illustrated by Gianna Renna from Silver Burdett Press for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Who Was Anne Frank? Who Was?...Series by Ann Abramson & Nancy Harrison (Illustrator) from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO)
	Who Was Ben Franklin? Who Was?...Series by Dennis Brindell Fradin from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-7th grade in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO)
	Who Was Helen Keller? Who Was?...Series by Gare Thompson from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO) $3.50 (1 in stock)
	Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? by Patricia Brennan Demuth from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO) $6.99
	Who Was Mark Twain? Who Was?...Series by April Jones Prince, John O'Brien from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-6th grade in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO) $5.99
	Who Was Walt Disney? Who Was?...Series by Whitney Stewart from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO)
	Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater World Landmark #21 by Anne Terry White, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges from Random House for 5th-9th grade in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
	William Shakespeare by Iris Noble from Julian Messner for 4th-7th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Winston Churchill The Courageous Adventurer, The Rebellious Politician, The Inspiring War Leader World Landmark #56 by Quentin Reynolds from Random House for 5th-9th grade in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
	Yoshiko Uchida The Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida from Julian Messner for 3rd-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Young Hans Christian Andersen by Hedvig Collin from Viking Press for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Young Mark Twain and the Mississippi Landmark #113 by Harnett T. Kane from Random House for 5th-9th grade in Vintage & Collectible (Location: VIN-COL)

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