Shannon Hale
New York Times best-selling author of six young adult novels,...
Shannon Hale
New York Times best-selling author of six young adult novels, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy.
Its sequel, Palace of Stone, releases August 2012. She also wrote Austenland and other books for adults. She co-wrote the hit graphic novels Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack with husband Dean Hale. They live with their four small children near Salt Lake City, Utah.
New York Times best selling author 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 The Goose Girl, the first book in her award-winning Books of Bayern series. She has two standalone books for young readers--Book of a Thousand Days, a Cybils award winner, and Princess Academy, a Newbery Honor Book. Her books for the adult crowd are Austenland (soon to be a major motion picture), Midnight in Austenland, and The Actor and the Housewife. With her husband Dean, Shannon wrote two graphic novels: Rapunzel's Revenge, winner of the Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award, and its acclaimed sequel, Calamity Jack. Shannon's next book is the Princess Academy sequel, Palace of Stone, in bookstores August 2012. She spends her days as a fulltime mom to four young children near Salt Lake City, Utah.
Books of Bayern series:
The Goose Girl (2003),
Enna Burning (2004),
River Secrets (2006),
Forest Born (2009),
Princess Academy (2005),
Austenland (2007),
Book of a Thousand Days (2007),
Rapunzel's Revenge (2008),
The Actor and the Housewife (2009),
Calamity Jack (2010),
Midnight in Austenland (2012)
Princess Academy: Palace of Stone (2012)
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