Ann Brashares

Ann Brashares is an American writer of children's books. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series of books.

Brashares was born in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and is a 1985 graduate of the Sidwell Friends School. After studying philosophy at Barnard College, she worked as an editor until her first book was published, though she had originally intended to pursue a graduate degree. While co-president of Alloy Entertainment, the book packager, she turned a concept by Jodi Anderson into the book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Currently two other titles have been published in the series with the fourth book in the series having been released in January 2007. The first book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, was adapted into a motion picture in 2005. She lives in New York with her husband, the artist Jacob Collins, and three children two boys and a girl.