James Kennedy is the author of The Order of Odd-Fish, a young adult novel published by Delacorte in 2008. He is also the founder and director of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, an annual nationwide contest in which kid filmmakers make 90-second videos about Newbery-winning books. Before becoming a writer, he was a software engineer and has a degree in physics and philosophy. Dare to Know is his first adult novel.