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October 26, 2005, 1:00pm ET
Moderated Author Chat
Ann Martin
Growing Up
Even as a child, Ann loved books. Her parents would encourage Ann and her sister Jane to read, and would often read aloud to them. Ann was an excellent student at school and always loved writing and reading. She graduated from Smith College in 1977 and then became an editor of children's books for both Scholastic and Bantam. In 1980, she began working on her first book, Bummer Summer. Learn more about the author in Ann M. Martin's biography.
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 About
Her Books
Author of the popular series The Baby-sitters Club, taking incidents from her own life and using them in her work was nothing new for Ann. While writing about the fun, mishaps and adventures of the group of teenage baby-sitters, Ann also published her first picture book, Leo the Magnificent, and collaborated with author Paula Danzinger on two books, P.S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More. After more 14 years Ann and her editors decided it was time for the girls of the Baby-sitters Club to move on, and as so did she. She went on to write the critically acclaimed Belle Teal and 2003 Newbery Honor Medal A Corner of the Universe, the story of how 12-year-old Hattie Owen's life is suddenly turned upside down when a mentally ill uncle she has never known returns home. Most recently this Fall, Ann has published A Dog’s Life: an Autobiography of a Stray, which follows the life of the stray dog Squirrel and her Bone from their canine point-of-views. |
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