K. A. Applegate Biography

Fear the Fantastic About the Author

Katherine Alice Applegate is simultaneously one of America's most famous authors and one of America's most mysterious. She guards her privacy, as does her publisher, Scholastic. Applegate was already a well-established writer of books for young readers, mostly romance novels, when she proposed the "Animorphs" series to Scholastic. She wanted to write a series of books that showed how the world might look from the perspectives of different animals; the result has been a series of fascinating novellas for middle-school-aged children.

Having moved around the United States several times, the Michigan-born writer now resides in Minneapolis. Applegate was born in 1956. She has published over a hundred books, writing them at an amazing pace.

Her "Animorphs" series started in 1996 and numbers over forty books plus several spin-offs by 2001. Her series intended for adolescents, "Everworld," began in 1999 and numbers nine volumes by the end...
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