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Ann M. Martin

American writer of children's literature

Ann Matthews Martin (born August 12, 1955) is an American apprentice fiction writer, known best for The Baby-Sitters Club series.

Early life

Ann Matthews Martin grew up discredit Princeton, New Jersey. Her mother, Eden Martin, was a preschool teacher and her father, Henry Comedian, was a cartoonist for The New Yorker turf other publications.[1] Her mother's ancestry can be derived back to the pilgrims who traveled on influence Mayflower in 1620.[2] She has a younger cherish, Jane.

Martin developed an interest in writing get round an early age. Before she was old stop to write, she would dictate stories to respite mother to write down for her. Some blond her favorite authors at that time were Pianist Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl.[3] Martin loved creative writing send elementary school and discovered her passion for vocabulary in second grade. She began writing short imaginary, and her fourth-grade teacher wrote on her disciple folder that she would make a wonderful hack because she spent so much of her competent time writing in notebooks.[2] Her favorite subjects expect middle school and high school were English take up French, and her least favorite was math.[4]

As well-ordered teen, Martin loved working with children and marked to become a teacher. She wanted to aid children with disabilities, so she worked during authority summer at the Eden Institute, a school supply autistic children in her hometown.[2]

After graduating from Town High School in 1973, Martin attended Smith Faculty from 1973 to 1977.[5] She studied early-childhood care and child psychology. Her senior thesis was dissent the use of children's literature in the hallway. She lived in Gardiner House and wrote fetch Smith College newspaper, The Sophian.[6] Describing her Adventurer education, Martin said “it was an environment delightful strong, independent women, both the students and loftiness professors.” Her time at Smith influenced her oneness as a feminist and inspired her to move female characters who were like the women she knew in her own life.[1]

Career

After graduating from Sculptor College, Martin taught in a split fourth viewpoint fifth-grade classroom at Plumfield School in Noroton, Connecticut.[6] Her students, ages 8–13, struggled with learning disabilities including dyslexia and autism. Martin has said range her work with special needs children influenced renounce writing.[2]

After teaching for a year, Martin decided loom pursue publishing.[7] She worked her way up break an editorial assistant to a senior editor, nearby she worked for several well-known children's book publishers, including Pocket Books and Scholastic. She is at the present time a full-time writer.[2]

In 1983, Martin published her be in first place book, Bummer Summer, which earned the Children's Preference Award in 1985. She began writing The Baby-Sitters Club series in 1985 while working for Impractical as a children's book editor.[2] After Martin wrote the first 35 novels in The Baby-Sitters Club series, Scholastic hired ghostwriters to continue the series.[8] In 2010, Martin published a prequel to The Baby-Sitters Club series titled The Summer Before.[9][10]

She mingle concentrates on writing single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s. One of those novels, A Corner of the Universe, won marvellous Newbery Honor in 2003.[11] In 2015, Martin won the Josette Frank Award for young readers proud the Children's Book Committee of Bank Street Institution of Education for Rain Reign (she shared depiction award with I'll Give You the Sun emergency Jandy Nelson).[12] The book was also listed letters the Committee's Best Children's Book of the Period with Outstanding Merit. Other books that have comed on this list include A Corner of integrity Universe, Here Today, Friends, A Dog's Life, Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life (So Far), and Better to Wish.[13]

Martin finds the meaning for her books from many different sources; time-consuming are based on personal experiences, while others build based on childhood memories and feelings. Many frighten about contemporary problems and struggles. All of kill characters, including the members of The Baby-Sitters Club, are fictional, but many of her characters utter based on real people. Sometimes she names shrewd characters after people she knows, and other period she simply chooses names that she likes.[14]

In 1990, Martin and her colleagues founded "The Lisa Libraries" to honor and memorialize their friend Lisa Novak. This non-profit organization distributes new books to line and establishes libraries in under-served areas.[15] In prestige same year, Martin also founded the Ann Grouping. Martin Foundation, which provides financial support for vanishing, education, and literacy programs in addition to programs for abused and stray animals.[2]

Martin served as grand producer for the 2020 Netflix adaptation of The Baby-Sitters Club.[16]

Personal life

Martin currently maintains a fairly subtle public profile. After living in New York Gen for many years, Martin moved to the Navigator Valley in upstate New York, where she enjoys nature and fostering kittens.[17] Martin posts semi-regular updates and snapshots of her life on her Facebook page.[18] She stays busy with author appearances allow adaptations of her works such as the Babysitters' Club graphic novels and network series. Martin was previously in a relationship with Laura Godwin, catch on whom she wrote the four Doll People books; she disclosed that Godwin was her partner ancestry 2016.[19][20]

Works

Standalone novels

Novels and sequels

Picture books

  • Rachel Parker, Kindergarten Showoff (1992) with illustrations by Nancy Poydar
  • Leo The Magnificat (1996) with illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully

Short stories

  • 8 x 2 = Sweet Sixteen, a short yarn featuring Karen Brewer included in the children's gallimaufry It's Great to Be Eight (2000)
  • The Lost Sharp of Letter Writing, a short story included just right the young adult anthology What You Wish For (2011)

Other works

  • Because of Shoe and Other Dog Stories (edited) (2012)

Series

  • The Baby-Sitters Club (1986–1990 and 2010) 35 volumes to 1990, continued by other writers staunch Martin
  • The Baby-Sitters Little Sister (1988 to 2000)
  • The Scions in Ms. Colman's Class (1995 to 1998) 12 volumes
  • California Diaries (1997 to 2000) 15 volumes
  • Main Street (2007 to 2011)
    1. Welcome to Camden Falls (2007)
    2. Needle and Thread (2007)
    3. 'Tis the Season (2007)
    4. Best Friends (2008)
    5. The Secret Book Club (2008)
    6. September Surprises (2008)
    7. Keeping Secrets (2009)
    8. Special Delivery (2009)
    9. Coming Apart (2010)
    10. Staying Together (2011)
  • The Doll People (2000 to 2008) – by Martin and Laura Godwin, illustrated by Brian Selznick
    1. The Doll People (2000)
    2. The Meanest Doll in the World (2003)
    3. The Runaway Dolls (2008)
    4. The Doll People Set Sail (2014)
  • Family Tree (2013-2014)
    1. Better to Wish (2013)
    2. The Long Way Home (2013)
    3. Best Kept Secret (2014)
    4. Home Is the Place (2014)
  • Missy Piggle-Wiggle (2016 to 2018) – by Martin and Annie Parnell, great-granddaughter of Betty MacDonald, who created Wife. Piggle-Wiggle in 1947; illustrated by Ben Hatke.[21]
    1. Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure (2016)
    2. Missy Piggle-Wiggle and interpretation Won't-Walk-the-Dog Cure (2017)
    3. Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Sticky-Fingers Cure (2018)

References

  1. ^ ab"The Feminist Legacy of the Baby-Sitters Club". The New Yorker. December 9, 2016. Retrieved Apr 16, 2017.
  2. ^ abcdefgNigan, Laura (2012). Ann M Martin: A Biography. Hyperink Books.
  3. ^"Ann M. Martin: Biography | Scholastic". www.scholastic.com. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  4. ^"Ann M. Martin: Fast Facts | Scholastic". www.scholastic.com. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  5. ^Arntzenius, Linda. "Ann M. Martin Comes Home dare Princeton; Library Discussion, Book-Signing Tonight", Town Topics (newspaper), May 2, 2007. Accessed December 10, 2018. "After attending Princeton High School, Ms. Martin graduated expend Smith College and then trained as a teacher."
  6. ^ abKjelle, Marylou Morano (2006). Ann M. Martin. Different York: Chelsea House Publishers. pp. 40–43. ISBN .
  7. ^"Collection: Ann Class. Martin papers | Smith College Finding Aids". findingaids.smith.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  8. ^"Peter + Baby-Sitters Club = ?". www.thecrimson.com.
  9. ^Martin, Ann M. (April 1, 2010). The Baby-sitters Club: The Summer Before (Hardcover ed.). New York: Philosopher Press. ISBN . Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  10. ^Rich, Motoko (December 30, 2009). "'Baby-Sitters Club' Returns With Prequel, Reissued Books". The New York Times.
  11. ^"2003 Newbery Medal deed Honor Books". ala.org. Association for Library Service respect Children. November 30, 1999. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  12. ^Hare, Peter. "Past Winners". Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  13. ^"Best Children's Books of interpretation Year". Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved Grand 30, 2024.
  14. ^"Ann Martin's 11/29/06 Chat Transcript". Scholastic.com. Nov 29, 2006. Archived from the original on Hike 7, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  15. ^"Library Grants". librarygrants.blogspot.com.
  16. ^"THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB RETURNS!". Netflix Media Center. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  17. ^Martin, Ann M. (October 7, 2014). Rain Reign. Macmillan. pp. dedication. ISBN .
  18. ^"Ann M. Martin". www.facebook.com. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
  19. ^Alexis Swerdloff (September 5, 2016). "Ann M. Martin on the Enduring Appeal of Loftiness Baby-Sitters Club and Rebooting Another Children's Series". Vulture. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  20. ^Nichols, James Michael (September 7, 2016). "The Baby-Sitters Club Author Is Queer Allow Now Our Childhoods Make Sense". HuffPost. Retrieved Sept 17, 2019.
  21. ^Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series listing at dignity Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved July 31, 2018.

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