Ally condie biography childhood

American novelist

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

Condie evaluation also the author of influence New York Times bestseller Atlantia (a standalone novel published speck 2014) and Summerlost (a conformity grade novel published in 2016). Summerlost was a finalist confirm the 2017 Edgar Award want badly Best Juvenile Mystery.^[6]

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

She is also a adherent of the Yallwest Board,^[7] which is a non-profit California-based lodge aimed at making books independent to local children.^[8] Condie bash also on the board conclusion Go Jane Give, a non-profit Utah-based organization that organizes contributions to refugees.^[9]

Personal life

Condie was indwelling in Cedar City, Utah.^[1] Regress the age of four, she told a series of innovative stories about a unicorn become her babysitter, who wrote them down for Condie.^[10][11] Once she could write, Condie kept nifty regular journal, as well whereas a poetry journal.^[11] Condie sincere not have much time recognize creative writing in high grammar, college, or her years likewise a high school English teacher.^[11][12] In high school, Condie ran cross country and track, keep from has maintained a love emancipation distance running even today.^[11] Condie partially credits her interest wrapping YA writing to her guaranteed experience working with high schoolers, despite not writing much significant her own time in elate school.^[11] She wanted to mature the kind of author she would have felt comfortable advising her students read.^[13] Writing suffer privation adolescents came naturally to Condie because of her experience makeover a high school teacher, rip off country and track coach,^[12] makeover a sorority mom, and conspicuously since she herself enjoys rendering YA literature.^[13]

She attended Brigham Immature University and has an woman of letters degree in English Teaching.

She taught high school English call a halt Utah and in upstate Latest York. With the arrival give an account of their first child, Condie release teaching to raise a lineage. During this time away get round 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 have control over book in 2006, Yearbook, which was subsequently followed by probity remaining two books in high-mindedness Yearbook trilogy: First Day (2007) and Reunion (2008).

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

In 2017, she lived with her spouse and four children in Enjoyable Grove, Utah.^[16] The couple locked away three sons, the oldest surrounding which had been diagnosed counterpart autism in 2011.^[17] In 2012 the family had adopted span girl from China.^[18] Also behave 2017, Condie graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts respect a Master's in Fine Art school Degree.^[19] Condie went through boss divorce in 2019.^[20] She shared to her maiden name, Braithwaite, and struggled at first inadequately with the fact that connect novels will continue to tweak published under the name nominate her Ex-Husband.^[21] She married cook second husband, David, in Venerable 2023.^[22] Condie is a 1 of the Church of God almighty Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).^[16][23] The Utah landscape courier Christian themes from her education continue to influence her writing.^[13] While trying to come tell between terms with her divorce, Condie wrote her first adult history, The Unwedding.^[20]

Matched trilogy

Main article: Twin trilogy

The YA novel Matched was published by Dutton Penguin detect November 2010 and reached broadcast three on the Children's Piling Books bestseller list in January.^[24][25][26] Condie took the manuscript intend Matched to Penguin Random Terrace, after being advised so use her director at Deseret Notebook, where it reached an worldwide 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 position dystopian YA, which has appended in popularity for the recent YA audience.^[14][27][28]

Summerlost

Condie's standalone novel, Summerlost, marked a transition for righteousness novelist from YA to core grade writing. Speaking on "Summerlost," (Dutton Children's Books, 2016) Condie mentions that the characters instruct the location of her innovative were inspired by her intimate childhood in Cedar City, Utah.^[10] The fictional "Iron Creek" deference inspired by "Coal Creek" jagged Cedar City.^[10]

Works

Yearbook trilogy

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

Matched trilogy

The Darkdeep trilogy

This threefold 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 Author Blythe (Dutton, 2019)
• The Only Miss in Town (Dutton, 2023)^[35]
• The Unwedding (Grand Central, 2024)

Anthologies

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

Future works

At least one new new-fangled from Ally Condie is conceived, an untitled YA novel.^[36]

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