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Katherine Alice Applegate
Biographical information
Species

Human

Gender

Female

Hair color

Brown

Eye color

Brown

Born

July 19, 1956

Family

Michael Grant (spouse),
Clara (daughter),
Julia (daughter),

Occupation

Author

Affiliation

Animorphs

Behind the scenes

K.A. Applegate is the creator and co-author of the Animorphs series.

Q&As about Animorphs[]

  • May 1997 - Online Event with K.A. Applegate [1]
  • October 21, 1997 - Barnes and Noble hosted an AOL chat with Applegate [2]
  • December 1-12, 1997 - Online Event with KA Applegate, posted on the scholastic website[3]
  • December 1997 issue - Nickelodeon Magazine interviews K.A. Applegate (see picture below)
  • 1997-1998 - Applegate answered fan questions on the fan site Morphz.com [4]
  • June 1998 - September 2000 - Due to legal reasons, Applegate ceased answering questions on Morphz.com and started to answer fan questions on a monthly basis on the scholastic web site, under the heading "According to K.A.". [5]
  • May 1999 - Scholastic Chat [6]
  • June 1999 - the back page of Book 31 The Conspiracy included a Q&A with Applegate
  • December 18, 1999 - KA spoke to fans in her first-ever video webcast.[7][8] - the first time she would be seen on video.
  • Toward the end of the series in 2001 - as part of the Animorphs Xtreme marketing campaign, According to K.A. was taken over by Yeerks and promoted The Sharing.[9]
  • April 28, 2011 - Reddit IAmA Q&A [10]
  • May 2011 - 5 questions with K.A. Applegate (video) [11]

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Trivia[]

  • Her name was printed as "K. A. Applegate" because the publisher was afraid boys would not want to read a book written by a woman. For similar reasons, Joanne Rowling used J. K. Rowling as her nom de plume.
  • Applegate has stated "My [Daughter] was born premature in April of 1997 and spent 3 weeks in Neonatal Intensive Care. ...I remember sitting in a dark, abandoned lobby at the Minneapolis Children's Hospital every night, typing away at four in the morning on Animorphs, as exhausted and worried as I could be. After that, all the books were dedicated to Michael and [Clara]."
  • In 1998, she owned two cats: Rabbit, a sweet black Manx, and Dick, an evil foot-biting cat.[12]
  • According to PR Newswire, until her first-ever video webcast on December 18, 1999, Applegate "has basically communicated with her fans only through a handful of telephone and email interviews (USA Today, NPR, Nickelodeon Magazine, Everworld Web site, etc.), a couple of online chats, and in email-like letters featured in the "According to K.A. Applegate" question-and-answer area on the Animorphs Web site." At that time she had never before given an in-person interview or been seen by her fans on video.[13]

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References[]

Behind the Scenes
Authors K.A. Applegate | Michael Grant | List of Ghostwriters
Artists David Mattingly | Romas Kukalis | Chris Grine
Actors Shawn Ashmore | Brooke Nevin | Nadia-Leigh Nascimento | Boris Cabrera | Christopher Ralph | Paulo Costanzo
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