K. A. Applegate

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Katherine Alice Applegate is the credited author of the Animorphs, Remnants, and Everworld book series, although many of these books are ghostwritten by other authors. She was born in Michigan in 1956. Since then she has lived in Texas, Florida, California, Minnesota and Illinois, and currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She also won the Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997 in Publishers Weekly.

She has a son named Jake, although she says the Animorph leader isn't named after him (rather, she named her son after the leader of the Animorphs). In 2003 she and her husband, Michael Reynolds (who is her "research assistant" of sorts), adopted their daughter, Julia, in China. Following the end of Animorphs, Applegate took three years off. She is back at work and recently sold a picture book called "The Buffalo Storm," and a middle reader novel called "The Stars Remain," which is the story of a Sudanese boy living in the US.

Aside from her three "big hit" series, Applegate has written other books, some under pen names. They include:

Harlequin romance novels, as Katherine Kendall.
Girl Talk novels, as L.E. Blair
Ocean City series (republished as Making Waves)
Boyfriends/Girlfriends series (republished as Making Out)
Barf-O-Rama series, as Pat Pollari
Disney's The Little Mermaid series
Disney's Aladdin series, as both A.R. Plumb and her own name
Silver Creek Riders series, as Beth Kincaid
Love Stories series
Summer series
The Story of Two American Generals: Benjamin O. Davis Jr. and Colin L. Powell
The Very Best Jinx McGee
Disney's Christmas with all the Trimmings: Original Stories and Crafts from Mickey Mouse and Friends
Disney's Enter if you Dare: Scary Tales from the Haunted Mansion, as Nicholas Stephens