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Katherine Alice Applegate | |
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Biographical information | |
Species | |
Gender |
Female |
Hair color |
Brown |
Eye color |
Brown |
Born |
July 19, 1956 |
Family |
Michael Grant (spouse), |
Occupation |
Author |
Affiliation | |
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]
External Links[]
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]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Online Chat May 1997
- ↑ Morphz.com Archive - October 1997 Barnes and Noble Chat
- ↑ Online Event December 1997
- ↑ Morphz.com Ask K.A. Archives Columns 1-11
- ↑ According to K.A. Archives on scholastic.com/animorphs
- ↑ 1999 Scholastic Chat
- ↑ Scholastic site advertising December 1999 web cast
- ↑ Video of December 18, 1999 webcast
- ↑ According to K.A. 2001
- ↑ April 2011 Reddit AMA
- ↑ May 2011 video Q&A
- ↑ According to K.A. Retrieved on 1998-06.
- ↑ PR Newswire
Behind the Scenes | ||
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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 |