Author Bio Examples
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Author: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Amazon Author Central Page Bio:
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The New York Times best sellers Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana. She is also a contributor to Atlantic Media's Defense One site. In 2004 she left ABC News to earn her MBA at Harvard, where she began writing about women entrepreneurs in conflict and postconflict zones, including Afghanistan and Rwanda. Following MBA study she served as a vice president at the investment firm PIMCO. She has written for Newsweek, the Financial Times, and the International Herald Tribune, as well as for the World Bank and Harvard Business School. Her 2011 TED Talk was a TED Talk of the Day A Fulbright scholar and Robert Bosch fellow, Gayle speaks Spanish, German, French and is conversant in Farsi.
Example Bio for BookGorilla Author's Page
Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's books shine a light on the achievements and struggles of women entrepreneurs in conflict and postconflict zones around the world. You've seen her on ABC News and TED Talks and read her work on Atlantic Media's Defense One site and in Newsweek, the Financial Times, and the International Herald Tribune. Now you can follow her long-form reporting on her BookGorilla Author's Page.
Amazon Author Central Page Bio:
Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of eighty novels and short-story collections over six decades.
Example Bio for BookGorilla Author's Page
You can call her Dame Agatha.... You can call her Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie.... You can even call her Lady Mallowan, DBE.... But to us she'll always be the Queen of Crime. Beginning with her debut as a 30-year-old mystery novelist in 1920 she has peopled over 80 novels and collections with some of the most unforgettable sleuths ever, including, most notably, the beloved Miss Marple and detective Hercule Poirot. If you want to keep up with her work on Kindle, there's no better place to do that than right here on her BookGorilla Author's Page.
Amazon Author Central Page Bio: None
Wikipedia Bio:
William Henry Stevenson (1 June 1924 – 26 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist.[1]
His 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller (see the Stephenson article for more). It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven and Stevenson followed it up with a 1983 book titled Intrepid's Last Case. He published his autobiography in 2012.
Stevenson set a record with another 1976 book, 90 Minutes at Entebbe.[2] The book was about Operation Entebbe, an operation where Israeli commandos secretly landed at night at Entebbe Airport in Uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by Palestinian militants, while incurring very few casualties. The remarkable record in that pre-internet age is that Stevenson's "instant book" was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described.[3][4]Example Bio for BookGorilla Author's Page
Long before the Kindle dramatically shortened the period of time necessary for publishing and distributing a full-length book, William Stevenson (1924-2013) set an "instant book" record of sorts when he brought out his bestselling 1976 account of Operation Entebbe in a matter of weeks. His bestseller <i>A Man Called Intrepid</i> was adapted as a mini-series starring David Niven in the title role of William Stephenson, who was no relation to the late British-born author.
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What to Do When There's No Bio on the Amazon Author Page, Wikipedia, the Author's Website or Anywhere Else
Author: A B Lee
Amazon Author Central Page Bio: None
Wikipedia Bio: None
Quick and Easy Solution: On the Amazon Author Central Page, use the pulldown menu near the upper right to sort the listings by "Most reviews:"
(32) reviews, then quickly find the review which hits the best sweet spot between being positive (5 stars is good) and being relatively literate, and use these ingredients to create a bio/note like this:
A B Lee's 2014 Lycan novella Finding a Home garnered 5 stars from Amazon reviewer Karli, who wrote:
"Anna has been raised to avoid and fear Lycans. But when she heals the Alpha' s gravely injured sister, she is brought to his attention. Nick quickly realizes Anna is his mate, but in two days he is to enter into an arranged marriage with the daughter of a neighboring pack's Alpha. The Mating will forge an alliance between the two packs against a power hungry Alpha who is intent on being king. Nick chooses pack over mate and sends her away, but Fate refuses to be denied.
"This is easily my favorite LR to date. Snark is minimal, the H/h are respectful of each other, and there is plenty of action and suspense with the psycho Alpha trying to take over. It is a winner."
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