![]() ![]() in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art.ĭan received his Masters in Education from Washington University in St. ABOUT DAN Biographic Sketch His last four years in teaching we Dan Simmons grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional "Elm Haven" in 1991's SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002's A WINTER HAUNTING. ![]() He then worked in elementary education for 18 years-2 years in Missouri, 2 years in Buffalo, New York-one year as a specially trained BOCES "resource teacher" and another as a sixth-grade teacher-and 14 years in Colorado. Dan received his Masters in Education from Washington University in St. in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art. Dan Simmons grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional "Elm Haven" in 1991's SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002's A WINTER HAUNTING. ![]()
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![]() Coben's acknowledgments, it is obvious that he admires the work Covenant House does. This story is told against a backdrop of the fate of homeless kids in New York and Covenant House, a body that attempts to rescue those children from their lives of prostitution, drugs and all round general crime and utter despair. Coben's other novels - Darkest Fear, The Final Detail, One False Move, Back Spin, Fade Away, Drop Shot, Deal Breaker and Tell No One include a series featuring Myron Bolitar but Gone For Good, like Tell No One before it, is a stand alone adventure. With Gone For Good he has produced yet another of his mazes made words to mystify and delude his fans. ![]() By very definition, then, he must know what mystery readers enjoy. ![]() Harlan Coben has won the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award and the Anthony Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosiński also has made some comics for the Spirou magazine, under the pseudonym 'Rosek'. The comic has appeared in Tintin magazine. Since 1980, 31 volumes have been published. In 1976 Rosiński received a scholarship in Belgium, where he met Jean Van Hamme, who wrote for him the series Thorgal, one of the most popular European comic book series. ![]() He is also the creator and the first editor of the Relax magazine, the first Polish language magazine devoted solely to comic books. Initially publishing his comic books only in newspapers and magazines (among them Sztandar Młodych), with time his works started to be published separately. ![]() He also authors some of the most popular Polish comic book series of the time, including the Illustrated History of Poland, Kapitan Żbik and Pilot śmigłowca. Until the late 1970s he authored numerous book illustrations for various Polish publishers and authors. In 1967 he graduated the Liceum of Fine Arts in Warsaw and then joined the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw. Grzegorz Rosiński was born in Stalowa Wola in 1941. 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