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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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	101 Hymn Stories The Inspiring True Stories Behind 101 Favorite Hymns by Kenneth Osbeck from Kregel Publications for 6th-12th grade in History of Hymns (Location: XCH-HYMN) $16.99
	101 Hymn Stories The Inspiring True Stories Behind 101 Favorite Hymns by Kenneth Osbeck 40th Anniversary from Kregel Publications for 6th-12th grade in History of Hymns (Location: XCH-HYMN) $18.99
	101 Hymn Stories - audio book on CD The Inspiring True Stories Behind 101 Favorite Hymns by Kenneth Osbeck, read by Wayne Shepherd from Oasis Audio for 6th-12th grade in Audio Books & Dramas (Location: CD-AUDIO) $15.00 (1 in stock)
	101 More Hymn Stories by Kenneth Osbeck from Kregel Publications for 6th-12th grade in History of Hymns (Location: XCH-HYMN) $18.99
	Abraham Lincoln, the Writer A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches and Letters by Harold Holzer from Boyds Mill Press for 6th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $5.00 (1 in stock)
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	Albert Schweitzer by Geoff & Janet Benge from YWAM Publishing Biography for 4th-8th grade in Christian Heroes: Then and Now (Location: BIO-BENGE) $11.99
	Alpine Path by Lucy M. Montgomery 1^st edition from Fitzhenry & Whiteside for 7th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	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)
	Anne Bradstreet Christian Encounters by D. B. Kellogg from Thomas Nelson Publishers for 7th-Adult in Christian Encounters (Location: BIO-CE)
	Anne Bradstreet Pilgrim and Poet by Faith Cook from Evangelical Press for 6th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary A Photographic Remembrance by Ruud van der Rol & Rian Verhoeven from Puffin Books for 7th-10th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $7.50 (1 in stock)
	At Home with Beatrix Potter by Susan Denyer from Harry N. Abrams, Inc. for 6th-9th grade in Peter Rabbit & Friends (Location: FIC-PETER)
	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
	Autobiography by Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery Sons of Liberty Series from A Beka Books for 7th-10th grade in A Beka Book Report books (Location: REA-ABK)
	Ben Franklin Inventing America Sterling Point Books by Thomas Fleming from Sterling Publishing Co. for 5th-9th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Benjamin Franklin Live Wire Heroes of History by Geoff & Janet Benge from Emerald Books Biography for 4th-7th grade in Heroes of History (Location: BIO-BENGE) $11.99
	Bill Peet An Autobiography by Bill Peet from Houghton Mifflin Biography for 4th-8th grade 1990 Caldecott Honor Book in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $18.99
	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)
	Blue Remembered Hills A Recollection by Rosemary Sutcliff from Farrar, Straus and Giroux for 6th-10th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Blue Remembered Hills A Recollection by Rosemary Sutcliff from William Morrow & Company for 6th-10th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	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
	Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank from Bantam Books Biography for 7th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $7.99
	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)
	George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn from Salem Ridge Press for 6th-10th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Gift of Music Great Composers and Their Influence by Jane Stuart Smith & Betty Carlson 3^rd edition from Crossway Books for 6th-12th grade in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS) $19.19
	Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary from HarperCollins for 3rd-7th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $10.39
	Great Christian Hymn Writers by Jane Stuart Smith & Betty Carlson from Crossway Books for 7th-12th grade in History of Hymns (Location: XCH-HYMN)
	Green Gables Letters from L. M. Montgomery to Ephraim Weber, 1905-1909 by Lucy Maud Montgomery from Borealis for 7th-12th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
	Harriet Beecher Stowe by Suzanne M. Coil from Franklin Watts for 7th-12th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	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: The Story of My Life Signet Classics by Helen Keller Reprint from Signet Classics Autobiography for 7th-10th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $5.95
	Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller from Dover Publications Autobiography for 7th-10th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $1.50 (4 in stock)
	Helen Keller: The Story of My Life Signet Classics by Helen Keller from Living Book Press Autobiography for 7th-10th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $15.99
	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)
	James Fenimore Cooper by Isabel Proudfit from Julian Messner for 6th-10th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	James Fenimore Cooper by Donald A. Ringe from Twayne Publishers for 6th-10th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	John Bunyan Tinker of Bedford by William Deal from Christian Liberty Press Biography for 6th-9th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $11.75 $5.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	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
	Letters to Children by C. S. Lewis from Charles Scribner's Sons Autobiographical Letters for 3rd-9th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN) $16.00
	Lost Garden A Memoir by the Author of Dragonwings by Laurence Yep from Simon and Schuster Autobiography for 6th-9th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $3.00 (1 in stock)
	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)
	Moon & I by Betsy Byars from Beech Tree Books for 5th-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $3.50 (2 in stock)
	Noah Webster Sowers Series by David Collins from Mott Media Biography for 7th-9th grade in Sowers Biographies (Location: BIO-SOW)
	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
	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)
	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)
	Presenting Miss Jane Austen by May Lamberton Becker from Bethlehem Books Biography for 6th-10th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Samuel Francis Smith Sowers Series by Marguerite Fitch from Mott Media Biography for 6th-8th grade in Sowers Biographies (Location: BIO-SOW) $7.99
	Self-Portrait: Trina Schart Hyman from Harper & Row for 4th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Shakespeare of London by Marchette Chute 1^st edition from E.P. Dutton & Co. for 6th-12th 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 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)
	Three Lives of Joseph Conrad by Olivia Coolidge from Houghton Mifflin Biography for 7th-12th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	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)
	Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. for 6th-10th grade 1958 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Trust Thyself A Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson for the Young Reader by James Playsted Wood from Unknown Publisher for 7th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	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)
	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 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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