Biography
Kelley Armstrong was born on 14 December 1968, the oldest of four siblings in a "typical middle class family" in London, Ontario.
After graduating with a degree in psychology from The University of Western Ontario, Armstrong then switched to studying computer programming at Fanshawe College so she would have time to write.
Her first novel Bitten was sold in 1999, and it was released in 2001. Following her first success she has written a total of 12 novels and a number of novellas in the world of the Women of the Otherworld series, and her first crime novel, Exit Strategy, was released July 2007. Armstrong has been a full-time writer and parent since 2002.
Her novel No Humans Involved was a New York Times bestseller in the hardback fiction category on May 20, 2007. Also, her YA novel The Awakening was a #1 New York Times bestseller in the Children's Chapter books category on May 17, 2009.
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