The author name is Scott O'dell. If you think he is alive and you have so many questions, you can't talk to him because he's dead. He died by a suffer of a type of cancer. He was born in Los Angeles and he died in New York. He had a wife called Elizabeth Hall. He wrote about 50 books for children 3 to 19! He even wrote Spanish books and he was an American! In one of books, it had Scott name misspelled, but he left it that way.