Ann M. Martin
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| Ann Matthews Martin | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 12, 1955 Princeton, New Jersey,  USA |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Writing period | 1983 - present |
| Genres | Children's and Young Adult Literature |
| Official website | |
- For the journalist of the same name, see Ann Martin (journalist).
Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She's now a full-time writer. Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.
Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.
Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.
After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Pippen and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.
Martin lives in Hudson Valley, New York. According to the biographical blurb in the back of the Baby-Sitters Club books, she "likes ice cream and I Love Lucy and hates to cook".
In 1990, she created the Ann M. Martin Foundation, which provides grants to causes benefiting children, education/literacy programs, and homeless people and animals.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Babysitters Club series
- Baby Sitters Litter Sister series
- The Kids in Ms Colman's Class series
- California Diaries series,
- The Mainstreet Series
- PS Longer Letter Later with Paula Danziger
- Snail Mail No More with Paula Danziger
- Leo the Magnificat
- Rachel Parker, Kindergarten Showoff
- Ten Kids, No Pets
- Eleven Kids, One Summer
- Ma and Pa Dracula
- Yours Turly, Shirley
- Just a Summer Romance
- Missing Since Monday
- With and Without You
- Me and Katie (The Pest)
- Stage Fright
- Inside Out
- Just You and Me
- Bummer Summer
- A Dog's Life: An Autobiography of a Stray
- The Doll People
- A Corner of the Universe
- Belle Teal
[edit] External links
- Ann M. Martin page from Scholastic, her publisher
- Scholastic Authors and Books page for teachers with biography, interview and partial book list.
- Works by or about Ann M. Martin in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Ann M. Martin by Margaret Becker, 1993
