D. J. MacHale
Author of The Merchant of Death
About the Author
D. J. MacHale was born on March 11, 1956. He received a BFA in film production from New York University. Before writing his best selling Pendragon series, he worked as a freelance writer and director for television and movies. He co-created Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark? series, wrote show more several ABC After-School Specials, directed the movie Tower of Terror for ABC's Wonderful World of Disney, and co-created, wrote and produced the Showtime series Chris Cross, which won the CableAce award for Best Youth Series. He co-created, produced, wrote and directed the Discovery Kids/NBC television series Flight 29 Down, which earned him the Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding Children's Script. His other written works include The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Monster Princess, and the Morpheus Road series. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Author D. J. MacHale at the 2016 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53513526
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Works by D. J. MacHale
Pendragon Before the War: Book Two of the Travelers (Pendragon Graphic Novel) (2009) — Editor — 163 copies
Strike 7 copies
Untitled Jessica Burkhart #3 3 copies
Pendragon Series Set - The Reality Bug, The Never War, The Lost City of Fear, The Merchant of Death (2003) 3 copies
Imagine: The Reality Bug 2 copies
Imagine: The Lost City of Fear 2 copies
SYLO: SYLO, Book 1 2 copies
Imagine: The Never War 2 copies
Pendragon: Lost City of Fear 1 copy
Pendragon: The Never War 1 copy
Pendragon: The Reality Bug 1 copy
The Equinox Curiosity Shop 1 copy
Syio 1 copy
Pendragon: Black Water 1 copy
Are You Afraid of the Dark? — Author — 1 copy
Trinity (Ghostwriter) 1 copy
Pendragon: 1. Merchant of Death, 2. Lost City of Fear, 3. Never War, 4. Reality Bug, 5. Black Water, 6. Rivers of… (2002) 1 copy
Tripples 1 copy
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- Legal name
- MacHale, Donald James
- Birthdate
- 1956-03-11
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
- Education
- New York University (BFA ∙ Film Production)
- Occupations
- novelist
screenwriter
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If you would like to read good young adult fantasy, pick up Tamora Pierce's "Circle of Magic" series or Ursula K. Le Guin's "Earthsea Cycle". "Runaways" (the comic) is a good young adult science fiction series. Unfortunately I haven't read much YA SF, but I know there's better stuff out there.… (more)