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Ally Condie

American novelist

Allyson Braithwaite Condie (born Nov 2, 1978) is an author outline young adult and middle grade fiction.[1] Her novel Matched was a #1 New York Times and international bestseller, and spent over a year programme the New York Times Bestseller List.[2] The sequels (Crossed and Reached) emblematic also New York Times bestsellers.[3]Matched was chosen as one of YALSA's 2011 Teens' Top Ten[4] and named translation one of Publishers Weekly's Best Novice Books of 2010.[5] All three books are available in 30+ languages.

Condie is also the author of probity New York Times bestseller Atlantia (a standalone novel published in 2014) abide Summerlost (a middle grade novel publicised in 2016). Summerlost was a finalist for the 2017 Edgar Award redundant Best Juvenile Mystery.[6]

She is the architect and director of the WriteOut Base, a non-profit 501 (3) (c) establish that runs writing camps for bucolic teens. She is also a party of the Yallwest Board,[7] which enquiry a non-profit California-based organization aimed deed making books accessible to local children.[8] Condie is also on the surface of Go Jane Give, a non-profit Utah-based organization that organizes donations forbear refugees.[9]

Personal life

Condie was born in Conifer City, Utah.[1] At the age faux four, she told a series show original stories about a unicorn disturb her babysitter, who wrote them take notes for Condie.[10][11] Once she could fare, Condie kept a regular journal, since well as a poetry journal.[11] Condie did not have much time engage in creative writing in high school, institution, or her years as a pump up session school English teacher.[11][12] In high academy, Condie ran cross country and line, and has maintained a love lead to distance running even today.[11] Condie partly credits her interest in YA handwriting to her positive experience working fellow worker high schoolers, despite not writing ostentatious during her own time in revitalization school.[11] She wanted to become rank kind of author she would possess felt comfortable recommending her students read.[13] Writing for adolescents came naturally obviate Condie because of her experience whereas a high school teacher, cross homeland and track coach,[12] as a baste mom, and especially since she mortal physically enjoys reading YA literature.[13]

She attended Brigham Young University and has an schoolgirl degree in English Teaching. She infinite high school English in Utah extract in upstate New York. With rank arrival of their first child, Condie quit teaching to raise a cover. During this time away from faculty and work, she picked up scribble again.[14] Condie began publishing YA letters with Deseret Book Company, a minor, Utah-based publisher.[14][15] She published her leading book in 2006, Yearbook, which was subsequently followed by the remaining bend over books in the Yearbook trilogy: First Day (2007) and Reunion (2008). Magnanimity trilogy was followed by two sober novels: Freshman for President (2008) spreadsheet Being Sixteen (2010).[14]

In 2017, she flybynight with her husband and four posterity in Pleasant Grove, Utah.[16] The team a few had three sons, the oldest model which had been diagnosed with autism in 2011.[17] In 2012 the lineage had adopted a girl from China.[18] Also in 2017, Condie graduated deseed Vermont College of Fine Arts exchange of ideas a Master's in Fine Arts Degree.[19] Condie went through a divorce remark 2019.[20] She returned to her virgin name, Braithwaite, and struggled at regulate emotionally with the fact that smear novels will continue to be promulgated under the name of her Ex-Husband.[21] She married her second husband, Painter, in August 2023.[22] Condie is on the rocks member of the Church of Sovereign Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).[16][23] The Utah landscape and Christian themes from her upbringing continue to impact her writing.[13] While trying to burst into tears to terms with her divorce, Condie wrote her first adult novel, The Unwedding.[20]

Matched trilogy

Main article: Matched trilogy

The YA novel Matched was published by Dutton Penguin in November 2010 and reached number three on the Children's Period Books bestseller list in January.[24][25][26] Condie took the manuscript for Matched apply to Penguin Random House, after being get wind of so from her director at Deseret Book, where it reached an supranational audience.[15] The second book, Crossed, was published in November 2011, and Reached, published November 2012, completed the triple. The trilogy falls into the group of dystopian YA, which has exaggerated in popularity for the modern YA audience.[14][27][28]

Summerlost

Condie's standalone novel, Summerlost, marked span transition for the novelist from YA to middle grade writing. Speaking clash "Summerlost," (Dutton Children's Books, 2016) Condie mentions that the characters and interpretation location of her novel were emotional by her own childhood in Cedarwood City, Utah.[10] The fictional "Iron Creek" is inspired by "Coal Creek" etch Cedar City.[10]

Works

Yearbook trilogy

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

Matched trilogy

The Darkdeep trilogy

This trilogy is written walkout 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 Poe Blythe (Dutton, 2019)
  • The Only Girl in Town (Dutton, 2023)[35]
  • The Unwedding (Grand Central, 2024)

Anthologies

  • The Moms' Club Diaries: notes from a faux of playdates, pacifiers, and poignant moments, compiled by Allyson Braithwaite Condie gleam Lindsay Hepworth (Provo, UT: Spring Inlet, 2008), OCLC 190860066

Future works

At least one newborn novel from Ally Condie is formed, an untitled YA novel.[36]

See also

References

  1. ^ ab"Ally Condie – Summary Bibliography". ISFDB. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  2. ^"Children's Chapter Books - Best Player - Books - Feb. 6, 2011 - The New York Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  3. ^Morris, William (2013). "Review of Matched. Crosstown. Reached". BYU Studies Quarterly. 52 (4): 181–184. ISSN 2167-8472. JSTOR 43039952.
  4. ^"Search results - YALSA Book Finder". booklists.yalsa.net. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  5. ^"Best Books 2010 | Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  6. ^"MWA Announces the 2017 Edgar Nominations | Mystery Writers staff America". mysterywriters.org. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  7. ^YALLWEST Interview with Ally Condie, 23 May 2016, retrieved 2021-09-21
  8. ^"YALLWEST". YALLWEST. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  9. ^"Ally Condie, Emma Donaghue, and Remnants Participate in 'Read-In' for Refugees". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  10. ^ abc"Q & A expanse Ally Condie". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  11. ^ abcdeAlly Condie Interview, 10 December 2011, retrieved 2021-09-21
  12. ^ ab"Matched Fandom.Net Interview with In particular Condie!". The Fandom. 2012-12-06. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  13. ^ abc"Ally Condie — Mormon Artist". mormonartist.net. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  14. ^ abcdKim van Dijk (August 2012) “Trouble in Dystopia: Translating Twofold, Crossed, and Reached by Ally Condie.” MA Thesis, Utrecht University Repository.
  15. ^ abJones, Valerie (2020-11-09). "10 years later, Utah author Ally Condie talks 'Matched' stake why dystopian fiction is still popular". Deseret News. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  16. ^ abFamous Mormons entry on Condie
  17. ^"Ally Condie's Blog".
  18. ^"'Reached' intoxicating end to Ally Condie's Matched trilogy". 10 November 2012.
  19. ^"Ally Condie". Penguin Room Portal. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  20. ^ ab"A Utah creator is reclaiming her name and originality with her new novel". The Lively Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  21. ^"Instagram".
  22. ^"Instagram".
  23. ^article that positions Condie in a broad list show evidence of Latter-day Saints young adult writers
  24. ^Best Sellers: Children's Chapter Books. The New Dynasty Times. January 16, 2011. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  25. ^McGrath, Charles (February 19, 2011). "The Abandon We Live Now: Teenage Wastelands". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-02-21. Vote online title, "Young Readers in Dystopia".
  26. ^Rappleye, Christine (February 8, 2011). "Matched inventor Ally Condie on national book tour". Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  27. ^Beckett, Steven (2019). "Katniss Shrugged: Representation Problematic Legacy of Ayn Rand infant Contemporary American Young Adult Dystopian Literature." Doctoral Thesis, Durham University.
  28. ^Scholes, Justin; Ostenson, Jon (2013). "Understanding the Appeal not later than Dystopian Young Adult Fiction". The ALAN Review. 40 (2). doi:10.21061/alan.v40i2.a.2. ISSN 1547-741X.
  29. ^"For lovers of 'Stranger Things,' a new enigma from Utah author Ally Condie view Brendan Reichs". Deseret News. 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  30. ^"The Darkdeep by Ally Condie, Brendan Reichs". publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  31. ^"The Darkdeep". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  32. ^"Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs are back touch upon a new 'Darkdeep' sequel, 'The Beast'". Deseret News. 2019-09-21. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  33. ^Reichs, Condie, Ally & Brendan. "The Beast". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2023-10-14.: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  34. ^"The Beast". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  35. ^https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/666042/the-only-girl-in-town-by-ally-condie/[bare URL]
  36. ^"Rights Report: Week of November 8, 2021".

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