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Sperry Hunt is the author of Songwriting: How To Write Music and Lyrics. He has written seven screenplays including Stealing Apollo, Hello In There and Semiprecious. Two have been optioned.

Mr. Hunt graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in biology and psychology. In 2005 he completed a two-year program at the University of Washington for which he was awarded an Advanced Certificate for Literary Fiction. His short story "The Rain on the Banana Leaves" won the 2005 Marcia Barton Award for Literary Fiction.

Subsequently he wrote The Inventors' Daughter, the first in a series of novels by that name written for middle grade readers ages 9-12. He is currently writing the second book with the working title The Timearang Pirates.

He lives in Seattle with his wife who is herself an artist. Their son resides on the Washington coast with his wife, an elementary school teacher, and their much adored daughter Erin who is the inspiration for the series.