Most popular authors undergo rejection from their publishers on their first try, and James Dashner is no exception to this. Dashner, the man who gave us the Maze Runner series, has definitely had his fair share of ups and downs before becoming the successful writer we know today. Born in 1972, ...

Ellen Hopkins has always had a way with words ever since she was young. At nine years old, one of the poems she wrote was published in a local paper. Raised in California, Hopkins attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied journalism. However, she didn’t finish her ...

John Grisham, a prolific writer of the legal fiction genre, has proven that excitement does happen in the courtroom. Grisham is the second child in a family of five siblings. He was born and raised in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and then the family moved to Mississippi when John was four. Their childr...