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Katherine Alice Applegate is the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, and Everworld book series. She was born in Michigan in 1956. Since then she has lived in Texas, Florida, California, Minnesota and Illinois, and currently lives in Chapel Hill, NC.
Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She also won the Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 in Publishers Weekly.
Applegate has two cats, Dick and Rabbit, and two dogs, Goofy and Pugs. She has a son named Jake, although she says the Animorph leader isn't named after him (rather, she named her son after the leader of the Animorphs instead). In 2003 she and her husband, Michael Reynolds (who is her "research assistant" of sorts), adopted their daughter, Julia, in China. Following the end of Animorphs, Applegate took three years off. She is back at work and recently sold a picture book called "The Buffalo Storm," and a middle reader novel called "The Stars Remain," which is the story of a Sudanese boy living in the US.
Aside from her three "big hit" series, Applegate has written other books, some under pen names. They include:
- Harlequin romance novels, as Katherine Kendall.
- Girl Talk novels, as L.E. Blair
- Ocean City series (republished as Making Waves)
- Boyfriends/Girlfriends series (republished as Making Out)
- Barf-O-Rama series, as Pat Pollari
- Disney's The Little Mermaid series
- Disney's Aladdin series, as both A.R. Plumb and her own name
- Silver Creek Riders series, as Beth Kincaid
- Love Stories series
- Summer series
- The Story of Two American Generals: Benjamin O. Davis Jr. and Colin L. Powell
- The Very Best Jinx McGee
- Disney's Christmas with all the Trimmings: Original Stories and Crafts from Mickey Mouse and Friends
- Disney's Enter if you Dare: Scary Tales from the Haunted Mansion, as Nicholas Stephens
Her other interests include traveling, reading, and gardening.
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