Louise Simonson was born on September 26, 1926.
=== Novelist ===From 1993 through 2009, she wrote five picture books and eleven novels for middle-readers, many of which featured characters from DC Comics
 Similarly to X-Factor, she was originally brought in as a fill-in writer so that Chris Claremont could launch two other titles, but ended up writing the series for three and a half years, ending with #97 in 1991

