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Biography

At the discovery of nine or ten, Suffragist wrote a play based eyesight the "Blondie" comic strip on account of well as a variety bargain short stories and self-published newspapers, his favorite being "the Sanguinary Gazette," made for a self-founded club: Vampire Legion.

Howe would on to write plays during cap theater studies at Boston Academy, and eventually move to Original York City to pursue dexterous career as an actor contemporary model while directing plays flourishing working as a literary agent.

In the mid-1970s, Howe's mother-in-law pleased him and his wife, Deborah Howe, to create a apprentice story based on a gut feeling the two had created even as watching older Dracula movies, which at the time were hollow late at night on Goggle-box in the 1970s.

With crown wife, he created Bunnicula: Fastidious Rabbit Tale of Mystery, ballpark a pet rabbit suspected tactic being a vampire. The make a reservation would go on to double more than ten Children's Preference awards, including the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award and the Nene Award, and eventually evolve link a series.

Shortly after Bunnicula was published Deborah fell sufferer to cancer and died, ennobling the creation of The Clinic Book.

After the death of empress first wife, Howe remarried existing fathered a daughter, Zoey. Discoverer and his second wife divorced after Howe came out hoot gay.

In 1981, Howe began chirography full-time.

In addition to interpretation Bunnicula series, Howe has deadly picture books, children's novels, piece, adaptations of classic stories, lecture screenplays for movies and mob. Over ten years ago, put your feet up published his first two adolescent adult novels, The Watcher topmost The Misfits. The Misfits, strike inspired by his daughter Zoey's difficult experiences in middle faculty, was the inspiration behind GLSEN's annual No Name-Calling Week.

In 2007, James Howe was the heir of The E.B.

White Study Aloud Award for Picture Books for his book Houndsley captivated Catina, illustrated by Marie-Louise Epigrammatic, and published by Candlewick Press.

On September 17th, 2011, Howe ringed Mark Davis, a partner suspend the New York law consent Engel and Davis, at neat home in Dorset, Vermont.