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Deborah Underwood

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Deborah Underwood grew up in Walla Walla, Washington. When she was little, she wanted to be an astronomer. Then she wanted to be a singer. Then she wanted to be a writer. Today her jobs are writing and singing. Two out of three's not bad! (Okay, she also wanted to work in a piano factory and paste the labels on new pianos, but let's just ignore that one.) Her dad was a math professor, and her mom taught English. Her sister got all the math brains, but some of her mom's word sense rubbed off on her, thank goodness. After college, she moved to San Francisco and became a street musician. Then she worked...

Richard J. King

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Richard J. King is the author of "Lobster," acclaimed by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and "The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History," selected as a top-five science book of the year by Library Journal and short-listed for the ASLE Creative Book Award. He also is the author and illustrator of the memoir "Meeting Tom Brady." Most recently he is the author of "Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick," released this fall 2019. King is series editor for Seafaring America with UP New England, edits the "Searchable Sea Literature" website,...