KA Applegate

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Katherine Alice Applegate (born October 9, 1956 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) is an American author of books for young people . She mostly publishes under the author name KA Applegate , but has also used various pseudonyms , including Katherine Kendall , AR Plumb and Nicholas Stevens . She is best known for her youth science fiction series Animorphs .

Life

Applegate studied veterinary medicine before she decided to become a writer. She began to write girls' books and romance novels in series from 1993, sometimes under a pseudonym, and she was also the author of two Disney book series.

The first books in the Animorphs series that made her famous were written by Applegate with her husband, the writer Michael Grant , whom she met at the University of Texas college . In the meantime over 50 volumes of the main series have appeared, more in several minor series, a large part of which has been translated into German. The series is about a group of young people who are given the gift of a dying alien to transform themselves into any animal they touch. Animorphs has now also been adapted as a Nickelodeon television series.

Everworld is a 12-volume series of teenage fantasy novels in which four children from our world and a girl from the fantasy world Everworld have to endure all sorts of dangerous adventures.

In 2007, her novel Home of the Brave about a Sudanese refugee in the USA won the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators .

Her novel The One and Only Ivan was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2013 . The novel is told from the perspective of a gorilla who has been sitting lonely in a glass cage in a shopping center as a visitor attraction for many years. The novel was inspired by a report in the New York Times about the legal battle over the fate of the gorilla Ivan, who had been the showpiece in the B & I Shopping Mall in Tacoma for 26 years . The film version of The Only True Ivan by director Thea Sharrock, a mixture of animation and real film, is scheduled to start in the USA in August 2020.

Applegate also uses a non-human narrator in Wishtree from 2017, here it is Red, an old oak tree who, together with some tree dwellers, tries to help a 10-year-old Muslim girl who is suffering from the hostility of a xenophobic environment - while Red is among the has to suffer increasingly frequent drought summer.

In addition to the series and books published under his own name, Applegate published under a pseudonym:

  • as LE Blair: Girl Talk Series
  • as Katherine Kendall romance novels for Harlequin Publishing
  • as Beth Kincaid: Silver Creek Riders Series
  • as AR Plumb and under its own name: Disney's Aladdin
  • as Pat Pollari: Barf-O-Rama series

Applegate has two daughters. The family lives in Tiburon , California .

bibliography

Animorphs

Animorphs - they will change you

The German translations by Christoph Arndt were published by Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg.

Megamorphs

The German translations by Christoph Arndt were published by Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg.

  • 1 The Andalite's Gift (1997)
    • English: The legacy of the Andalites. Ravensburger Taschenbuch # 2148, 1999, ISBN 3-473-52148-5 .
  • 2 In the Time of Dinosaurs (1998)
    • English: At the time of the dinosaurs. Ravensburger Taschenbuch # 2161, 2000, ISBN 3-473-52161-2 .
  • 3 Elfangor's Secret (1999)
  • 4 Back to Before (2000)
The Animorph Chronicles
  • The Hork-Bajir Chronicles (1998)
  • Animorphs: Visser (1999)
  • The Ellimist Chronicles (2000)
The Animorph Chronicles - The Andalite Chronicles
  • 1 Elfangor's Journey (1997, in: KA Applegate: The Andalite Chronicles )
  • 2 Alloran's Choice (1997, in: KA Applegate: The Andalite Chronicles )
  • 3 An Alien Dies (1997)
  • The Andalite Chronicles (1997)
Alternamorphs / Alternamorph
the nightmare begins
  • 1 The First Journey (1999; with Tonya Alicia Martin)
  • 2 The Next Passage (2000; with Emily Costello)
  • The first journey / the next encounter. Translated by Christoph Arndt. Ravensburger Buchverlag (Ravensburger Taschenbuch # 54183), Ravensburg 2002, ISBN 3-473-54183-4 (collective edition of 1 and 2).

Novel series

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Ocean City / Making Waves
  • 1 Making Waves (1993)
  • 2 tease (1993)
  • 3 Sweet (1993)
  • 4 Thrill (1993)
  • 5 Heat (1994)
  • 6 Heat Wave (1994)
  • 7 Bonfire (1994)
  • 8 Swept Away (1995)
  • 9 Shipwrecked (1995)
  • 10 Beach Party (1995)
  • 11 Forever (1995)
Making Out / Boyz 'n' girls

Only the first 8 titles in the series are from Applegate. The remaining titles were written by a ghostwriter. The German translations are by Angelika Eisold-Viebig and published by Arena Verlag, Würzburg.

Disney's The Little Mermaid
  • 7 King Triton, Beware! (1993)
  • 8 The Haunted Palace (1993)
  • 9 The Boyfriend Mix-Up (1994)
Summer / Making Waves
  • June Dreams (1995)
  • July's Promise (1995)
  • August Magic (1995)
  • Beaches, Boys, and Betrayal (1996)
  • Sand, Surf, and Secrets (1996)
  • Rays, Romance, and Rivalry (1996)
  • Christmas Special Edition (1996)
  • Spring Break Reunion (1996)
  • Tan Lines: Sand, Surf, and Secrets; Rays, Romance, and Rivalry; Beaches, Boys, and Betrayal (2008)
  • Beach Blondes: June Dreams; July's Promise; August Magic (2008)
Everworld

The German translations by Christoph Arndt were published by Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich.

  • 1 Search for Senna (1999)
  • 2 Land of Loss (1999)
  • 3 Enter the Enchanted (1999)
  • 4 Realm of the Reaper (1999)
  • 5 Discover the Destroyer (2000)
  • 6 Fear the Fantastic (2000)
  • 7 Gateway to the Gods (2000)
  • 8 Brave the Betrayal (2000)
  • 9 Inside the Illusion (2000)
  • 10 Understand the Unknown (2000)
  • 11 Mystify the Magician (2001)
  • 12 Entertain the End (2001)
Remnants
  • 1 The Mayflower Project (2001)
  • 2 Destination Unknown (2001)
  • 3 Them (2001)
  • 4 Nowhere Land (2002)
  • 5 mutation (2002)
  • 6 Breakdown (2002)
  • 7 isolation (2002)
  • 8 Mother, May I? (2002)
  • 9 No Place Like Home (2002)
  • 10 Lost and Found (2003)
  • 11 Dream Storm (2003)
  • 12 Aftermath (2003)
  • 13 Survival (2003)
  • 14 Begin Again (2003)
Roscoe Riley Rules
  • Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs (2008)
  • Never Swipe a Bully's Bear (2008)
  • Don't Swap Your Sweater for a Dog (2008)
  • Never Swim in Apple Sauce (2008)
  • Don't Tap-Dance on Your Teacher (2009)
  • Never Walk in Shoes That Talk (2009)
  • Never Race a Runaway Pumpkin (2009)
  • Don't Eat A Hula Hoop (2018)
Eve and Adam
  • 1 Eve & Adam (2012, with Michael Grant)
    • German: Eve & Adam. Translated by Wolfram Ströle. Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-473-40104-8 .
  • Love Sucks and Then You Die (2013, with Michael Grant)
Endling
  • 1 The Last (2018)
    • German: Endling - the search begins. Translated by Herbert Günther and Ulli Günther. dtv, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-423-64062-6 .
  • 2 The First (2019)

Single novels

  • Listen to my Heart (1996)
    • German: Be cool, Christopher! Translated by Ellen Würtenberger. Ravensburger Taschenbuch # 8051, 1997, ISBN 3-473-58051-1 .
  • Sharing Sam (2004)
    • German: Shared love. Translated by Lothar Schneider. Ravensburger Taschenbuch # 8048, 1997, ISBN 3-473-58048-1 .
  • Home of the Brave (2007)
  • The One and Only Ivan (2012, with Patricia Castelao (Ill.))
    • German: The incomparable Ivan. Katherine Applegate. Translated by Ingrid Ickler. Knesebeck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86873-694-6 .
  • Crenshaw (2015)
    • English: Crenshaw: Once a black cat. Translated by Brigitte Jakobeit. Sauerländer, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7373-5427-1 .
  • Wishtree (2017, with Charles Santoso)
    • German: tree of wishes. Translated by Katrin Fischer. Ueberreuter Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7641-9224-2 (e-book).
  • The One and Only Bob (2020)

collection

  • Fantastic Tales for Boys (2006, collective edition; with Kathryn Lasky and Emily Rodda)

literature

Web links

Commons : KA Applegate  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to a tweet from Applegate. According to other sources (e.g. ISFDB and SFE ), her date of birth is July 19, 1956.
  2. ↑ a b Wishtree: Writing about big issues through a gorilla, a giant cat and now - a tree , article by Anja Sostek in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on October 25, 2017, accessed on July 10, 2020.
  3. ↑ Newbery - Katherine Applegate, Jon Klassen win Newbery, Caldecott Medals , American Library Association notice dated January 28, 2013, accessed July 14, 2020.
  4. ↑ A Gorilla sulks in a mall as His Future Is debated , report the New York Times of October 17, 1993, accessed on July 11, 2020th
  5. ↑ About Katherine , accessed July 11, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Applegate, KA
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Applegate, Katherine Alice (full name); Archer, C. (pseudonym); Benning, Elizabeth (pseudonym); Blair, LE (pen name); Kendall, Katherine (pen name); Kincaid, Beth (pseudonym); Plumb, AR (pseudonym); Pollari, Pat (pseudonym); Stevens, Nicholas (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA