Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black

Tony DiTerlizzi

Tony DiTerlizzi was born on September 6^th, 1969. When he was young he loves collecting insects, snorkeling and camping, he also loved to draw and read. After college Tony began a freelance illustration career, he worked for TSR’s Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, he also worked on games like Planescape, Chageling and Magic the Gathering.

He spends seven years working as a fantasy artist after that he started creating children’s picture books. He published a book called Jimmy Zangwow’s OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD Moon Pie Adventure in 2000, on the second year he wrote TED and with that book he won the Zena Sutherland Award in 2002. He also won the 2003 Caldecott Honor Medal and the New York Times bestselling author/illustrator.

Now he lives in Amherst, Massachusetts

Holly Black

Holly Black was born in November 1971 in a decrepit Victorian house in New Jersey. When she was young she has a habit of reading books until 3 a.m., because her parent buys her ghost and fairy stories she is afraid of darkness. After graduating she got a job in an independent gaming magazine: d8 in New York. That is where she meets Tony DiTerlizzi and also when she started a fantasy novel: A Modern Fairy Tale.

Today she lives in West long Branch, New Jersey with Theo, her husband, married in 1999 and she now collects rare folklore volumes, spooky dolls and outrageous hats.

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Informations from:

http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-spiderwick-author.asp

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kilIROe474c