Learning about authors

1. Michael Hyde has designed his sight to appeal to readers by creating a very simple page with a main focus on some interesting images which relate to a story placed alongside them.

Eoin Colfer

2. Michael Gerad Bauer started writing during his breaks from teaching English at secondary schools.Michael Hyde was also an English teacher when he started his writing career. James Roy started professionally writing when he got sick of his job and wanted to see if he could be as good a writer as his literary idols.


3. The two authors I chose for this task are, Eoin Colfer and Andy Griffith.


Eoin (Which is pronounced as Owen) is probably most known for his highly acclaimed "Artimis Fowl," series which started way back in 2001. Eoin has also written many other successful titles which include "And another thing..." which was written as the 6 th and final instalment in "The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy," series. Eoin was asked to write this as the author of the first five installments, Douglas Adams, sadly passed away in 2001.
Andy Griffith would have to have to most outrageous style of writing I've ever read. With some of his books  averaging about 6 words a page and having a whole series of books which involve someone's bum playing as the main character, his talent as an author is questionable. But regardless of this, his books are still very popular and are quite "fun," to read.

Douglas Adams

4. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, England during the march of  1952 and passed away in may, 2001. After leaving college he was determined to break into TV and Radio as a writer. From then on Douglas Adams worked in this media but it never really was enough. It wasn't until Douglas wrote "The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy," that made him a recognised author and with it being a smash hit, Douglas continued his career as an author writing four more continuations of Hitchhikers and some appearances on radio as well as writing a few other titles until he sadly passed away in 2001.