{"birth_date": "1969", "personal_name": "Ben Harper", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "alternate_names": ["Ben Harper", "Benjamin Harper-adapter", "Benjamin Harper Pat Murphy", "Harper Benjamin"], "key": "/authors/OL2675796A", "name": "Benjamin Harper", "source_records": ["promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-04-02", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-09-26", "amazon:0794435335"], "photos": [14317368], "remote_ids": {"viaf": "70077669"}, "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Benjamin Harper was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida where he spent his time obsessing over insects, dinosaurs, space travel, and kaiju attacks. He went to Warren Wilson College in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina and then moved to New York where he started working in children\u2019s publishing. He\u2019s been involved in children\u2019s books ever since, as both an editor and author. Currently, he lives in Los Angeles, California where he works on super hero stories and lives with his cat Edith Bouvier Beale, III.\r\n\r\nBenjamin is the author of the Bug Girl series and Obsessed with Star Wars. [source](https://us.macmillan.com/author/benjaminharper)"}, "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-29T13:35:46.876380"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-05-12T15:41:29.619097"}}