Margaret Peterson Haddix Biography

Growing up Margaret received a strict and relentless education that ended up benefiting her in the future. The death of her father in 1835, forced Fuller to become a school teacher in order to support herself, her mother and several younger siblings instead of pursuing her writing career. The money that Fuller made from her teaching job was not enough to support her family. In May, 1839, she published her first book which was a translation of Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life (Lauter 280-281) . Fuller then served as the first editor of The Dial, there she wrote reviews, critiques and poetry for the quarterly. Working at The Dial, she earned more money than her teaching

The author, Linda Pastan, was born on in1932, on May 27 in New York City, New York. She was the only child of Jacob L. Olenic, a surgeon, and Bess Olneic. She had a relatively normal life growing up. Her parents were from European Jewish descent, but because of their atheistic views, they sent their daughter to a

She worked her whole youth by studying and trying to get her family stable, none of this was in vain; she became an author.

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.

In the book, “found” by Margaret Peterson, the Protagonist Jonah Skidmore is an ordinary, adventurous, young 13 year old boy. Jonah is an ambitious, young boy who when sets his mind on a task, will do absolutely everything he can to accomplish it. “Don’t worry chip, I promise I will find out why we are receiving these strange letters”. Jonah is very considerate and caring for his best friend. When in situations these two responsible young men will stick together. Jonah is also a polite, hones man, who is very considerate of his encouraging parents. In fact also knowing they are not his birth parents. “I hope you guys don’t mind but can you tell me a little more about my actual parents?” Jonah questioned. Jonah finds himself extremely fortunate

Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1953. In 1970, Tan majored in English at San Jose State, in California. Tan began a carrier as a technical writer after she graduated, at the University of California. However, she changed her writing because she was inspired to write fiction book after reading of Louise Erdrich's novel “Love Medicine”. As a result of this, language has helped Amy Tan in becoming the successful writer she’s today. It helped her express her complete thoughts in a way that everyone who reads, understand. Additionally, the type of language that she uses in her writing makes people take her seriously and as important as everyone else.

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

In the novel Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix, teamwork and inseparable bonds were produced during various occasions. For a variety of reasons, eleven year old Katherine Skidmore would definitely qualify as a best friend due to her benevolent traits. As her adopted brother, Jonah, and his friend, Chip, received mysterious notes in the mail corresponding to their adoption cases, she assisted them in trying to figure out who sent them and why. Throughout this process, she portrayed herself as caring, comforting, and supportive. For instance, Katherine is usually worried about her appearance, but once she realized how crucial this situation was to her brother, it all disappeared. The author stated, “Katherine really agreed to come down here to Chip’s without blow-drying her hair first? That undoubtedly meant that she didn’t have a crush on Chip. Or, if she did, she thought this mystery was more important…” (Haddix 192). Furthermore,

Laurie Halse Anderson is from a white background and was born in Potsdam, New York, United states on October 23, 1961 (Biography Laurie Halse Anderson 1). Her family growing up was apart of why she is an author today because her dad was always telling her stories about the war, and her second grade teacher showed her how fun writing could be during a haiku lesson which really impacted her life and it was when she knew she wanted to be an author, she said that when she was little she found a typewriter and write stories for a newspaper column that she made up (Biography Laurie Halse Anderson 1). Laurie had gotten married to her first husband Gregory H. Anderson in 1983 and they had two children together, but then got a divorce in 2002 and

At a young age she experienced her mother’s death but she didn’t let that take away from her focus on writing. Her most famous book was titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which Abraham Lincoln believed to be the start of the Civil war. Later in life she had married and had a son. Although she found it very hard to raise a son and still keep up on her daily writing she somehow managed. She managed to raise her son with the help of a friend and keep up on her

What I learned about my author Beverly Cleary, I never knew who inspired her to write. Most people would say family inspired their nieces,nephews,and any kind of family but someone else inspired her to write. It was her middle school librarian. Beverly got told by her librarian and her english teacher that one day she should be a writer. Now that's usually not normal for someone in Beverly's life to inspire her so much but she did. Beverly had two twins and then she lost her husband a few years later.

Luke Gardner is a farm boy and a shadow child nowhere near being a baron (who are richer than most people). The only time he is outside was when the forest was up, but the government wanted the land to build new houses and what the government wants the government gets. Being a third child or a hidden one is illegal because the population was growing at rates that if it continued it would make no one have food or water so the government have the population police to make sure no one has a third child and if they do the population police take care of the third child . He loves his family, but when the barons come he has to keep some secrets from them. He finds another shadow child one day that was looking out the

Tamora Pierce is a young adult fantasy fiction author who is quite well known for the young, strong and rebellious heroines in all of her novels. She was born December 13th, 1954 in Fayette Country, Pennsylvania. During her childhood, her family moved a great deal and books became her solace. Her uncle gave her a set of books including several from A.A Milne, who wrote all of the “Winnie the Pooh” books, and Dr. Seuss’ “Cat in the Hat.” What really got her into writing was when one day, her father told her she should start writing down her stories instead of just telling them to herself out loud, while also giving her some of her first book ideas. After that it all writing and reading every genre for Pierce, until she got introduced to J.R.R Tolkein in the sixth grade which was her window into fantasy novel, then eventually science fiction. She began writing stories mimicking all her favourite authors writing styles, something she encourages every young writer to do now. Later on in life as she reflected on the writing she did as a child she said: “I tried to write the kind of thing I was reading, with one difference: the books I loved were missing teenaged girl warriors.

The author Laura Hillenbrand grew up in Washington D.C. and always had a passion for writing ever since a younger age. While in college she became

Louisa May Alcott very famous author best known for her book “Little Women” was born in the 1800s, I read a fable about her called “The Frost king: or, the power of love”, when i read this fable i thought well she is a good writer, she entertains the readers with her writing but through her writing she was also trying to teach us something through her meaningful writings.