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"Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1780) was the author of Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales. In 1746 she left France for London, where she had a successful publishing career. Her version of ""Beauty and the Beast"" has been retold countless times, both in film and on stage. Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French author and intellectual. Known as a founding writer of the fairy tale genre, he rewrote numerous folk tales, including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Blue Beard, and Puss in Boots. His stories, which continue to enjoy worldwide acclaim, have been adapted to opera, ballet, theater, and film. The Brothers Grimm were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors. They are among the most well-known storytellers of European folk tales, and their work popularized such stories as ""Cinderella,"" ""The Frog Prince,"" ""Hansel and Gretel,"" ""Rapunzel,"" ""Rumpelstiltskin,"" and ""Snow White."" Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales, was published in 1812. The popularity of the Grimms' collected folk tales has endured well beyond their lifetimes. The tales are available in hundreds of translations and have been made into popular Disney films, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker and a washerwoman. As a young teenager, he became quite well known in Odense as a reciter of drama and as a singer. When he was fourteen, he set off for the capital, Copenhagen, determined to become a national success on the stage. He failed miserably, but made some influential friends in the capital who got him into school to remedy his lack of proper education. In 1829 his first book was published. After that, books came out at regular intervals. His stories began to be translated into English as early as 1846. Since then, numerous editions, and more recently Hollywood songs and Disney cartoons, have helped to ensure the continuing popularity of the stories in the English-speaking world. George Zarr is an award-winning audio dramatist currently based in Chicago. He is the producer, writer, director, and composer of the Hans Christian Andersen musical The Bell, the four-part comedy Hurry! Hurry! It's Almost Christmas, the mystery collection Dark of the Moon Inn, and the Western comedy musical serial Hoofbeats in My Heart, all four available from Blackstone Publishing. Noelle Dupuis is an accomplished voice actor and audiobook narrator based in Ontario, Canada. Some of the titles she has voiced for Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre include Snow White, Cinderella, A Christmas Carol, Bambi, A Life In the Woods, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, and Alice Through the Looking Glass. Noelle's production company, the First Noelle Productions, also produced full-cast dramatizations of The Bell, The Spirit of Christmas Day, and Hurry! Hurry! It's Almost Christmas! Blackstone Publishing distributes all these titles."

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