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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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	Adventures of Herge Creator of Tintin by Michael Farr from Last Gasp for 4th-10th grade in Adventures of Tintin (Location: COM-TIN) $29.95
	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)
	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)
	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)
	Carl Sandburg: Young Singing Poet Childhood of Famous Americans by Grace Hathaway Melin from Bobbs-Merril Co for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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 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)
	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)
	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)
	Mark Twain on the Mississippi by Earl Schenck Miers, illustrated by Robert Frankenberg from World Publishing Company for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	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
	Pen and Bayonet The Story of Joyce Kilmer Catholic Digest Junior Book Shelf / Credo Books by Norah Smaridge, illustrated by June Roberts First Printing from Hawthorn Books, Inc. for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Play's the Thing by Ruth Turk from Carolrhoda Books, Inc. for 4th-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	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)
	Sequoyah: Young Cherokee Guide Childhood of Famous Americans by Dorothea J. Snow from Bobbs-Merril Co for 3rd-6th grade 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 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)
	Trouble Begins at 8 A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West by Sid Fleischman 1^st edition from Greenwillow Books for 4th-8th grade in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
	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 American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)

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