Ann Brashares biography, plus links to book reviews and excerpts. Ann Brashares Biography Ann Brashares grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland with her three brothers and attended a Quaker school in the DC area called Sidwell Friends. She studied Philosophy at Barnard College, part of Columbia University in New York City. Expecting to continue studying philosophy in graduate school, Ann took a year off after college to work as an editor, hoping to save money for school. When asked where the idea for the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants came from she replies: "It started with a conversation. Brashares and her husband, 42-year-old portrait painter Jacob Collins, live in a four-story building in the East 60s in New York with their three children, Susannah, Nate and Sam, who range in age from about 5 to 11. They met when Brashares was 18 and he was 21. Brashares' books in addition to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books include Forever in Blue, The Last Summer (of You and Me), and My Name is Memory. Link to Ann's website Interview
The Enid Blyton Society Please step carefully — there are literally thousands of books and magazines here, going right back to Enid's early days. How many books do you think she wrote? How many of her short stories, plays, poems and non-fiction articles were published? How many compilations and continuations were published after her death? This is the place to find out! Feel free to browse around. Quick Links to Popular Series... Novels/Novelettes All the books in this section are full-length stories, which are in most cases divided into chapters. Character Books Books are included in this section when the entire book is about one character (or set of characters) but the book cannot be considered a novel or novelette. Short Stories Series Books This huge section contains all the numerous series of short story books that were published, a total of 947 books. Education Books The 267 books in this section are all broadly based on education. Recreation Books Continuation Books Blyton Contributions Enid Blyton Magazines
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