Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Young adult fiction novelist
Notable workThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Children4

Ann Brashares (born July 30, 1967)

young adult novelist. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
series.

Life and career

Brashares was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her three brothers. She attended elementary and high school at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. After studying philosophy at Barnard College, she worked as an editor for 17th Street Productions. 17th Street was acquired by Alloy Entertainment, and following the acquisition she worked briefly for Alloy.

After leaving Alloy she wrote

My Name is Memory was published in 2010 and has been optioned for film.[2] Brashares' young-adult time travel novel, The Here and Now, was published in April 2014.[3] She resides in New York City with her artist husband, Jacob Collins
, and children Samuel, Nathaniel, Susannah and Isaiah.

Works

Brashares mainly writes for young adults. Besides the Sisterhood series and its two companion books, 3 Willows and Sisterhood Everlasting, she has contributed two 80-page biographies to the nonfiction book series Techies and has published two standalone novels for adults. She won the Indies Choice Book Award for Children's Literature in 2002,[4] and won the Quill Award for Young teen/adult in 2005.[5]

Nonfiction

Fiction

References

  1. ^ Barnard College Newscenter Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Fleming, Michael. "New Regency finds 'Memory' Archived June 3, 2010, at the Wayback Machine". Variety. November 10, 2009. Retrieved September 8, 2010.
  3. ^ a b "The hear and now"[permanent dead link]. Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
  4. ^ "Book Sense Book of the Year Award Winners". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  5. ^ "Quill Award | Book awards | LibraryThing". www.librarything.com. Retrieved 2017-11-16.

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