Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Landport, Portsmouth,
England, the second of eight children in a family continually
plagued by debt. A legacy brought release from the nightmare of
debtors' prison and child labor and afforded him a few years of
formal schooling. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper
reporter until his early writings brought him the amazing success
that was to be his for the remainder of his life. He was the most
popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains
popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic
characters.
Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) was an American professor of
oriental and Greek literature, as well as divinity and biblical
learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, in New York City. He is the author of the
yuletide poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" which became famous as
"The Night before Christmas."
Alison Larkin was born in Washington, DC, adopted at six weeks old
by British parents, and raised in England and Africa. After
graduating from Royal Holloway College, London University, and the
Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, she became a playwright and
classical actress on the British stage. Then, at twenty-eight, she
found her birth mother, who was living in Bald Mountain, Tennessee.
The experience turned her into a stand-up comic. She was soon
headlining at the Comic Strip in New York and the Comedy Store in
Los Angeles, while maintaining her theatrical career. She also
spent three years under a studio development contract to star in
her own sitcom with ABC, CBS, and Jim Henson Productions. Her
unusually wide range of voices can be heard in cartoons and movies,
from work by James Cameron and Robert Altman to Pocahontas and The
Wonder Pets. The audiobook of The English American, narrated by
Alison, won an AudioFile Earphones Award.
Derek Perkins is a professional narrator and voice actor. He has
narrated numerous titles across a wide range of genres, including
fantasy, science fiction, mystery, comedy, history, and nonfiction.
He has earned ten AudioFile Earphones Awards and was a finalist for
the 2015 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narration.
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