In 1999 she published four books, the first of these being the historical novel "Dave at Night" and the other three being "The Fairy’s Mistake," "The Princess Test," and "Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep" (later collected into a volume called "The Princess Tales: Volume One"). It is a retelling of the fairytale "Cinderella," and launched her fame as a writer of fairytales with a twist. She started writing at a young age, but all her manuscripts were rejected until the Newberry Honor story "Ella Enchanted" was published in 1997. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Princess Test (Princess Tales) by Levine, Gail Carson Book The Cheap Fast at the best. Gail Carson Levine, an American author of fairytales for young readers and teenagers, was born in New York in 1947 to parents David and Sylvia. Today we publish some of the world's foremost authors, from Nobel prize-winners to worldwide bestsellers recent successes including the Booker-winning Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel, and George RR Martin's blockbusting A Song of Ice and Fire series.#page_title# Author Spotlight Gail Carson Levine (1947-) The worldwide group was formed following News Corp's 1990 acquisition of William Collins & Sons. In 1987, Harper & Row, as it had then become, was acquired by News Corporation. The original Harper Brothers Company was established in New York City in 1817 and over the years published the works of Mark Twain, the Bronte Sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. In the UK, the Glasgow-based William Collins & Sons was founded in 1819 and published a range of bibles, atlases and dictionaries, later including classic authors HG Wells, Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. With a heritage stretching back nearly 200 years, HarperCollins is one of the world's foremost English-language publishers, offering the best quality content right across the spectrum, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction to digital hymnbooks and pretty much everything in between.
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