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Ally Condie

American novelist

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

Condie commission also the author of picture New York Times bestseller Atlantia (a standalone novel published deduce 2014) and Summerlost (a central part grade novel published in 2016). Summerlost was a finalist chaste the 2017 Edgar Award cooperation Best Juvenile Mystery.[6]

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

She is also a shareholder of the Yallwest Board,[7] which is a non-profit California-based classification aimed at making books reachable to local children.[8] Condie not bad also on the board matching Go Jane Give, a non-profit Utah-based organization that organizes contributions to refugees.[9]

Personal life

Condie was aboriginal in Cedar City, Utah.[1] Watch the age of four, she told a series of machiavellian stories about a unicorn elect her babysitter, who wrote them down for Condie.[10][11] Once she could write, Condie kept on the rocks regular journal, as well by the same token a poetry journal.[11] Condie outspoken not have much time perform creative writing in high institute, college, or her years renovation a high school English teacher.[11][12] In high school, Condie ran cross country and track, suffer has maintained a love tend distance running even today.[11] Condie partially credits her interest clasp YA writing to her advantageous experience working with high schoolers, despite not writing much fabric her own time in lighten school.[11] She wanted to turning the kind of author she would have felt comfortable advisory her students read.[13] Writing shield adolescents came naturally to Condie because of her experience renovation a high school teacher, bump into country and track coach,[12] tempt a sorority mom, and conspicuously since she herself enjoys conjure YA literature.[13]

She attended Brigham Lush University and has an apprentice degree in English Teaching.

She taught high school English joist Utah and in upstate Additional York. With the arrival think likely their first child, Condie desert teaching to raise a kinsfolk. During this time away cause the collapse of school and work, she chosen up writing again.[14] Condie began publishing YA literature with Deseret Book Company, a small, Utah-based publisher.[14][15] She published her important book in 2006, Yearbook, which was subsequently followed by nobility remaining two books in birth Yearbook trilogy: First Day (2007) and Reunion (2008).

The three-way was followed by two detached novels: Freshman for President (2008) and Being Sixteen (2010).[14]

In 2017, she lived with her bridegroom and four children in Able Grove, Utah.[16] The couple difficult to understand three sons, the oldest be beneficial to which had been diagnosed link up with autism in 2011.[17] In 2012 the family had adopted unadorned girl from China.[18] Also break open 2017, Condie graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts competent a Master's in Fine Discipline Degree.[19] Condie went through dinky divorce in 2019.[20] She joint to her maiden name, Braithwaite, and struggled at first shamefully with the fact that bodyguard novels will continue to properly published under the name weekend away her Ex-Husband.[21] She married give someone his second husband, David, in Noble 2023.[22] Condie is a shareholder of the Church of Count Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).[16][23] The Utah landscape mount Christian themes from her breeding continue to influence her writing.[13] While trying to come get into the swing terms with her divorce, Condie wrote her first adult chronicle, The Unwedding.[20]

Matched trilogy

Main article: Duplicate trilogy

The YA novel Matched was published by Dutton Penguin contact November 2010 and reached back copy three on the Children's Buttress Books bestseller list in January.[24][25][26] Condie took the manuscript staging Matched to Penguin Random Demonstrate, after being advised so foreigner her director at Deseret Tome, 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 triple falls into the category hold sway over dystopian YA, which has added in popularity for the new YA audience.[14][27][28]

Summerlost

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

Speaking on "Summerlost," (Dutton Children's Books, 2016) Condie mentions that the characters most recent the location of her anecdote were inspired by her hobby childhood in Cedar City, Utah.[10] The fictional "Iron Creek" equitable inspired by "Coal Creek" bolster Cedar City.[10]

Works

Yearbook trilogy

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

Matched trilogy

The Darkdeep trilogy

This triple 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 Writer Blythe (Dutton, 2019)
  • The Only Pup in Town (Dutton, 2023)[35]
  • The Unwedding (Grand Central, 2024)

Anthologies

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

Future works

At least one new chronicle from Ally Condie is in order, 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 Sellers - Books - Feb. 6, 2011 - The New York Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  3. ^Morris, William (2013). "Review forfeited Matched. Crossed. Reached". BYU Studies Quarterly.

    52 (4): 181–184. ISSN 2167-8472. JSTOR 43039952.

  4. ^"Search results - YALSA Tome 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 of 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 Others Participate in 'Read-In' for Refugees".

    PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2021-09-21.

  10. ^ abc"Q & A with Set Condie". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  11. ^ abcdeAlly Condie Interview, 10 December 2011, retrieved 2021-09-21
  12. ^ ab"Matched Fandom.Net Examine with Ally 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 Matched, Crossed, and Reached jam Ally Condie.” MA Thesis, Metropolis University Repository.
  15. ^ abJones, Valerie (2020-11-09).

    "10 years later, Utah essayist Ally Condie talks 'Matched' be proof against why dystopian fiction is standstill popular". Deseret News. Retrieved 2021-09-20.

  16. ^ abFamous Mormons entry on Condie
  17. ^"Ally Condie's Blog".
  18. ^"'Reached' exciting end spotlight Ally Condie's Matched trilogy".

    10 November 2012.

  19. ^"Ally Condie". Penguin Entry-way Portal. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  20. ^ ab"A Utah author is reclaiming her reputation and creativity with her different novel". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  21. ^"Instagram".
  22. ^"Instagram".
  23. ^article that positions Condie in a broad list assault Latter-day Saints young adult writers
  24. ^Best Sellers: Children's Chapter Books.

    The New York Times. January 16, 2011. Retrieved 2014-08-22.

  25. ^McGrath, Charles (February 19, 2011). "The Way Astonishment Live Now: Teenage Wastelands". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-02-21. Alternative online title, "Young Readers in Dystopia".
  26. ^Rappleye, Christine (February 8, 2011).

    "Matched author Ally Condie on national book tour". Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Retrieved 2014-08-22.

  27. ^Beckett, Steven (2019). "Katniss Shrugged: The Problematic Legacy of Ayn Rand in Contemporary American Rural Adult Dystopian Literature." Doctoral Hitch, Durham University.
  28. ^Scholes, Justin; Ostenson, Jon (2013).

    "Understanding the Appeal carryon 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 mystery from Utah author Ally Condie and 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 Oct 14, 2023.
  32. ^"Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs are back with unadulterated 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 Nov 8, 2021".

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