Author’s Biography
Morgan Matson was born in New York City and she grew up there and later on she lived in Greenwich, Connecticut. She attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, but halfway through her degree in theater, she started working in the children’s department of Vroman’s Bookstore and fell in love with YA literature.
Following college graduation, she received her M.F.A. in Writing for Children from The New school and worked YA novels as an editor. She received a second M.F.A. in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California. It all made sense during this time.
She has novels that has been translated into many different languages, and has been published all over the United States.
Morgan wrote her first novel, it’s called Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour, she was inspired by the things that she loves the most such as her love of road trips, snacks, and the quest for the perfect playlist. This novel was named an ALA Top Ten Best Book, a Publisher’s Weekly Flying Start book, and was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Book Prize.
She then wrote her second novel, it’s called Second Chance Summer, she was inspired by a place that she always spent her summer, she had experiences spending summers in Pennsylvania at the Pocono Mountains. Second Chance Summer was the winner of the California Book Award and it named to the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults List, selected for the Oklahoma Sequoya List, and selected as a School Library Journal Best Book.
She then wrote
This book is the sequel to “The summer I turned pretty”. The book was written by New York Times Bestseller author Jenny Han. It was published in April 27th 2010 by publisher Simon & Schuster.
She went on to graduate high school and attend a community college. Family problems were beginning to be too much by then so she decided to seek solace from her English professor. The conversation resulted in her moving in with her professor; this had a critical impact on her life. Her professor provided a stable home and encouraged her to pursue writing at a four-year university.
college. Even though she might have grown up with a hard life, she fought for different ways to
Susan Beth Pfeffer decided that she wanted to be a writer when her father dedicated the law book he was writing to his daughter. Right then and there she wrote her first little story about the love between a pair of scissors and an Oreo cookie. Her childhood experiences form the basis of her writing, seeing that she grew up in the suburbs in New York. This explains why most of her books focus on young people growing up in the suburbs. Pfeffer went on to New York University. After getting her degree in radio, television, and motion pictures she started a writing course and her first novel Just Morgan was published. Throughout her life she has published more than 75 books and some of them include: A Year without Michael, Devils Den, Life as We Knew it and Family of Strangers. The themes of her books usually include emotional problems, divorce, historical fiction, and people having fantasies of modeling/acting. Her science fiction stories contain apocalyptic futuristic events like her novel Life as We Knew it.
After watching Jane’s interview I was ecstatic with my choice. She was born in New York City in 1939. Both of Jane’s parents were well-established writers, so it was only natural for her to follow in their footsteps. Jane has always enjoyed writing; she can still remember and site
My book Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie, was writing by Kristina Gregory. I choose this book, because I thought it would be cool to read about a girl traveling the Oregon Trail back in 1847.
Before Anne Fadiman became a writer she was a student at Harvard University. After graduating, she became a worker as a wilderness instructor in Wyoming before returning to New York to pursue he career as a writer. She has been a staff writer at Life and editor of The American Scholar and reading. She is also the author of Ex Libris and At Large and At Small. Now she has a family and is living in western Massachusetts and serves as the Francis Writer- in- Residence at Yale.
With this statement, Jacobs specified her purpose for writing and her intended audience. This insight gives readersan understanding of why she chose to include what she did in her story as well as why she chose to exclude other details. Although this work is presented as a narrative of
But ever since she started writing most of her stories were based on The Lewis and Clark Exposition that happened in 1803-1806. Her very first book she wrote was first released in Minnesota called Betrayed. In all of her books she has written they have all been about Indians and her culture because she wants more people to know that you can be anybody you want and not feel bad about it or self-conscious . She always tries to ryhm in her books with poetry because she likes the poems. In August 2011 “The Christmas Coat” was the first hardcover book to ever come out all over the world, that book was written on her ancestors. If you read her books most of them talk about the different types of religions and how they are all important. When her daughter had a daughter she had just figured she would start writing little kid books too because they would understand it better. Virginia has painted all the covers to her books since she even started writing books. www.wordpress.com http://freshfiction.com
She had a very successful life and was motivated by her hard-working parents and hoped to find success as a businesswoman. After teaching at two schools she went to Montreal to study at Field Beauty Culture School, one of the only establishments that accepted black students.
•Her diary has been sold more 30 million times in 67 different languages, which means that she has impacted not only Europe but the whole entire world.
She has also written essays, reviews, and books. She is also a prolific poet, becoming extensive in writing poetry which moves from the traditional ones to even the unrestricted free verse. Her characters are mostly from the underclass of the black neighborhoods which shows the impact of city life to the people within. As one of the most visible poets in the United States, she is active not only in public readings and poetry workshops but she also participates in contests and classes
she was six. Just Morgan was Susan’s first book to get published. She wrote Just Morgan during her last semester at NYU. When her first book got published Susan became a full time writer. She has written over 60 books for kids and adults. Susan Beth Pfeffer and her 2 cats now lives in Middletown, New York.
Once she moved to Minneapolis she opened Birchbark Books with her sister where she sold many of her own works along with others. The series title was dedicated to her
Millay returned to writing and stuck with it. She was a prolific writer with more than fifteen