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  <name><![CDATA[Michael  Grant]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I was born in a manger and grew up in a log cabin where I read law books by firelight. . . Oh, wait, that wasn't me, that was someones else.  

I had a hard childhood.  Hard for my parents.  Not that bad for me.  I was an Army brat, moved around a lot.  Then I didn't settle down.  I just kept moving.  Why?  What inner turmoil drove me?  Mmmm, I gotta say none.  I just have a short attention span.  Easily bored.  I'm currently living in Tuscany.  I'm already sick of it.  I mean, every restaurant is an Italian restaurant.  

(UPDATE: Okay, we're back in the States.  Southern California.)  

I've written 150 books.  That's right, I said 150.  In your face, Stephen King.  Granted, mine are shorter than his.  And less popular. And less likely to be made into a major motion picture.  And I guess i don't play in a band with Dave Barry, either, do I?  

Sorry:  Salieri complex acting up.

Most of those books -- and by &quot;most&quot; I mean 149 out of 150 -- I wrote with my wife, the lovely, the talented, the eternally hot, Katherine (K.A.) Applegate. We've been together for 29 years.  Which is a long time.  Looooong time.  Sweet lord what a long . . . No babe, I'm not implying anything.

Damn internets:  you never know who's reading things.

Anyway, GONE.  My goal in writing GONE?  To creep you out.  To make you stay up all night reading, then roll into school tired the next day so that you totally blow the big test and end up dropping out of school. 

GONE.  Imagine a world where every adult vanishes in an instant.  ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Stephen King, Bill Bryson, Patrick O'Brien, Tolkien, K.A. Applegate, Dan Simmons, Raymond Chandler]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Los Angeles</hometown>  <born_at>07/26/1954</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Gone (Gone 1)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michael  Grant]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.10</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1517</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <id>5047880</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Hunger (Gone 2)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Michael  Grant]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1599723.Michael_Grant]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.23</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>567</ratings_count>
  <published>2009</published>  
  
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  <id>6686092</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Lies (Gone, #3)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Michael  Grant]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1599723.Michael_Grant]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.29</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
  <published>2010</published>  
  
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  <id>6686101</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Plague: A Gone Novel]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Michael  Grant]]></name>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <published>2011</published>  
  
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  <id>6764094</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Mikey Goes Pro]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Michael  Grant]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1599723.Michael_Grant]]></link>
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  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <id>5107867</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Warbirds - How They Played the Game]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Michael  Grant]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1599723.Michael_Grant]]></link>
    </author>
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  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <id>4817608</id>
  <title><![CDATA[American Southwest: A People and Their Landscape]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Michael  Grant]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1599723.Michael_Grant]]></link>
    </author>
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  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <published>1995</published>  
  
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