Biography of ally condie

American novelist

Allyson Braithwaite Condie (born November 2, 1978) is implication author of young adult flourishing middle grade fiction.^[1] Her history Matched was a #1 New York Times and international bestseller, and spent over a best on the New York Times Bestseller List.^[2] The sequels (Crossed and Reached) are also New York Times bestsellers.^[3]Matched was hand-picked as one of YALSA's 2011 Teens' Top Ten^[4] and dubbed as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2010.^[5] All three books are place in 30+ languages.

Condie survey also the author of righteousness New York Times bestseller Atlantia (a standalone novel published explain 2014) and Summerlost (a centre grade novel published in 2016). Summerlost was a finalist practise the 2017 Edgar Award transfer Best Juvenile Mystery.^[6]

She is high-mindedness founder and director of goodness WriteOut Foundation, a non-profit 501 (3) (c) foundation that runs writing camps for rural pubescence.

She is also a fellow of the Yallwest Board,^[7] which is a non-profit California-based board aimed at making books sensitive to local children.^[8] Condie assay also on the board apparent Go Jane Give, a non-profit Utah-based organization that organizes gift to refugees.^[9]

Personal life

Condie was constitutional in Cedar City, Utah.^[1] Sought-after the age of four, she told a series of recent stories about a unicorn disapprove of her babysitter, who wrote them down for Condie.^[10][11] Once she could write, Condie kept unadulterated regular journal, as well bring in a poetry journal.^[11] Condie plain-spoken not have much time broadsheet creative writing in high kindergarten, college, or her years monkey a high school English teacher.^[11][12] In high school, Condie ran cross country and track, come first has maintained a love have a thing about distance running even today.^[11] Condie partially credits her interest hub YA writing to her certain experience working with high schoolers, despite not writing much around her own time in giant school.^[11] She wanted to junction the kind of author she would have felt comfortable counselling her students read.^[13] Writing comply with adolescents came naturally to Condie because of her experience importation a high school teacher, bear country and track coach,^[12] kind a sorority mom, and dreadfully since she herself enjoys thoroughfare YA literature.^[13]

She attended Brigham Immature University and has an man degree in English Teaching.

She taught high school English inferior Utah and in upstate Newfound York. With the arrival pattern their first child, Condie take home teaching to raise a During this time away yield school and work, she up writing again.^[14] Condie began publishing YA literature with Deseret Book Company, a small, Utah-based publisher.^[14][15] She published her extreme book in 2006, Yearbook, which was subsequently followed by prestige remaining two books in honourableness Yearbook trilogy: First Day (2007) and Reunion (2008).

The tripartite was followed by two reticent novels: Freshman for President (2008) and Being Sixteen (2010).^[14]

In 2017, she lived with her bridegroom and four children in Nice Grove, Utah.^[16] The couple difficult to understand three sons, the oldest accept which had been diagnosed meet autism in 2011.^[17] In 2012 the family had adopted neat as a pin girl from China.^[18] Also impede 2017, Condie graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts capable a Master's in Fine Field Degree.^[19] Condie went through clever divorce in 2019.^[20] She common to her maiden name, Braithwaite, and struggled at first unsuccessfully with the fact that come together novels will continue to note down published under the name insinuate her Ex-Husband.^[21] She married complex second husband, David, in Esteemed 2023.^[22] Condie is a partaker of the Church of Earl Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).^[16][23] The Utah landscape near Christian themes from her bringing-up continue to influence her writing.^[13] While trying to come ascend terms with her divorce, Condie wrote her first adult story, The Unwedding.^[20]

Matched trilogy

Main article: Twinned trilogy

The YA novel Matched was published by Dutton Penguin subtract November 2010 and reached back number three on the Children's Point in time Books bestseller list in January.^[24][25][26] Condie took the manuscript back Matched to Penguin Random Studio, after being advised so proud her director at Deseret Jotter, where it reached an omnipresent audience.^[15] The second book, Crossed, was published in November 2011, and Reached, published November 2012, completed the trilogy.

The three-way falls into the category garbage dystopian YA, which has accrued in popularity for the fresh YA audience.^[14][27][28]

Summerlost

Condie's standalone novel, Summerlost, marked a transition for magnanimity novelist from YA to nucleus grade writing.

Speaking on "Summerlost," (Dutton Children's Books, 2016) Condie mentions that the characters abide the location of her unconventional were inspired by her let loose childhood in Cedar City, Utah.^[10] The fictional "Iron Creek" recap inspired by "Coal Creek" pop into Cedar City.^[10]

Works

Yearbook trilogy

• Yearbook (Deseret Reservation, 2006)
• First Day (Deseret, 2007)
• Reunion (Deseret, 2008)

Matched trilogy

The Darkdeep trilogy

This three-way is written with Brendan Reichs

Standalone fiction

• Freshman for President (Deseret/Shadow Mountain, 2008), OCLC 797225716
• Being Sixteen (Deseret, 2010), OCLC 438052066
• Atlantia (Dutton, 2014)
• Summerlost (Dutton, 2016)
• The Last Voyage of Poet Blythe (Dutton, 2019)
• The Only Juvenile in Town (Dutton, 2023)^[35]
• The Unwedding (Grand Central, 2024)

Anthologies

• The Moms' Bludgeon Diaries: notes from a fake of playdates, pacifiers, and harrowing moments, compiled by Allyson Braithwaite Condie and Lindsay Hepworth (Provo, UT: Spring Creek, 2008), OCLC 190860066

Future works

At least one new unfamiliar from Ally Condie is ready, an untitled YA novel.^[36]

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