Welcome to “How I Became,” the Lifehacker series where I ask real people how they really got their jobs. This week I'm chatting with Aubre Andrus, an award-winning children's book author. She mostly ...

T.J. Aagesen does not exactly fit the image as the author of a children’s book, especially one about chickens. The 40-year-old Elgin man is big and strong and has a master’s degree in emergency ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students ...