Kathryn Lasky

[3] She was the 2011 winner of the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.

Her most notable book series is Guardians of Ga’Hoole, which has more than 8 millions copies printed.

[1] Her adult nonfiction work includes the 2011 book, Silk and Venom: Searching for a Dangerous Spider, a biography of the arachnologist Greta Binford,[5] and the 2017 bestseller Night Witches, the story of Soviet women pilots of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment in WWII.

[6][7] Two guide books were released to give readers more insight into the world of Hoole.

This series for adult readers was also written under the name Kathryn Lasky Knight.