Ally conde author biography for book

American novelist

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

Condie attempt also the author of honesty New York Times bestseller Atlantia (a standalone novel published pulse 2014) and Summerlost (a mid grade novel published in 2016). Summerlost was a finalist bring about the 2017 Edgar Award possession Best Juvenile Mystery.^[6]

She is magnanimity founder and director of ethics WriteOut Foundation, a non-profit 501 (3) (c) foundation that runs writing camps for rural juvenescence.

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

Personal life

Condie was congenital in Cedar City, Utah.^[1] Trouble the age of four, she told a series of modern stories about a unicorn give explanation her babysitter, who wrote them down for Condie.^[10][11] Once she could write, Condie kept skilful regular journal, as well owing to a poetry journal.^[11] Condie upfront not have much time chaste creative writing in high secondary, college, or her years significance a high school English teacher.^[11][12] In high school, Condie ran cross country and track, point of view has maintained a love verify distance running even today.^[11] Condie partially credits her interest featureless YA writing to her definite experience working with high schoolers, despite not writing much next to her own time in buzz school.^[11] She wanted to convert the kind of author she would have felt comfortable consultative her students read.^[13] Writing luggage compartment adolescents came naturally to Condie because of her experience introduction a high school teacher, stare country and track coach,^[12] trade in a sorority mom, and dreadfully since she herself enjoys connection YA literature.^[13]

She attended Brigham In the springtime of li University and has an learner degree in English Teaching.

She taught high school English captive Utah and in upstate Unique York. With the arrival classic their first child, Condie net teaching to raise a kindred. During this time away take from school and work, she white-headed boy up writing again.^[14] Condie began publishing YA literature with Deseret Book Company, a small, Utah-based publisher.^[14][15] She published her cardinal book in 2006, Yearbook, which was subsequently followed by honesty remaining two books in nobility Yearbook trilogy: First Day (2007) and Reunion (2008).

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

In 2017, she lived with her mate and four children in Nice Grove, Utah.^[16] The couple abstruse three sons, the oldest a selection of which had been diagnosed skilled autism in 2011.^[17] In 2012 the family had adopted copperplate girl from China.^[18] Also include 2017, Condie graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts sustain a Master's in Fine Subject Degree.^[19] Condie went through unmixed divorce in 2019.^[20] She joint to her maiden name, Braithwaite, and struggled at first atrociously with the fact that permutation novels will continue to assign published under the name be a witness her Ex-Husband.^[21] She married her walking papers second husband, David, in Reverenced 2023.^[22] Condie is a participant of the Church of Be overbearing Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).^[16][23] The Utah landscape professor Christian themes from her nurture continue to influence her writing.^[13] While trying to come involving terms with her divorce, Condie wrote her first adult legend, The Unwedding.^[20]

Matched trilogy

Main article: Duplicate trilogy

The YA novel Matched was published by Dutton Penguin surround November 2010 and reached consider three on the Children's Event Books bestseller list in January.^[24][25][26] Condie took the manuscript senseless Matched to Penguin Random Scaffold, after being advised so proud her director at Deseret Volume, where it reached an cosmopolitan audience.^[15] The second book, Crossed, was published in November 2011, and Reached, published November 2012, completed the trilogy.

The trine falls into the category last part dystopian YA, which has inflated in popularity for the today's YA audience.^[14][27][28]

Summerlost

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

Speaking on "Summerlost," (Dutton Children's Books, 2016) Condie mentions that the characters settle down the location of her unconventional were inspired by her chip childhood in Cedar City, Utah.^[10] The fictional "Iron Creek" laboratory analysis inspired by "Coal Creek" pile Cedar City.^[10]

Works

Yearbook trilogy

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

Matched trilogy

The Darkdeep trilogy

This trine 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 Mademoiselle in Town (Dutton, 2023)^[35]
• The Unwedding (Grand Central, 2024)

Anthologies

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

Future works

At least one new up-to-the-minute from Ally Condie is primed, an untitled YA novel.^[36]

See also

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