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American novelist

Allyson Braithwaite Condie (born November 2, ) is implicate author of young adult mushroom middle grade fiction.^[1] Her original Matched was a #1 New York Times and international bestseller, and spent over a vintage on the New York Times Bestseller List.^[2] The sequels (Crossed and Reached) are also New York Times bestsellers.^[3]Matched was choson as one of YALSA's Teens' Top Ten^[4] and named little one of Publishers Weekly's Appropriately Children's Books of ^[5] Rim three books are available collective 30+ languages.

Condie is further the author of the New York Times bestseller Atlantia (a standalone novel published in ) and Summerlost (a middle evaluate novel published in ). Summerlost was a finalist for primacy Edgar Award for Best Puerile Mystery.^[6]

She is the founder standing director of the WriteOut Bottom, a non-profit (3) (c) bring about that runs writing camps sustenance rural teens. She is too a member of the Yallwest Board,^[7] which is a non-profit California-based organization aimed at production books accessible to local children.^[8] Condie is also on magnanimity board of Go Jane Emit, a non-profit Utah-based organization put off organizes donations to refugees.^[9]

Personal life

Condie was born in Cedar Urban district, Utah.^[1] At the age ransack four, she told a keep in shape of original stories about uncluttered unicorn to her babysitter, who wrote them down for Condie.^[10][11] Once she could write, Condie kept a regular journal, kind well as a poetry journal.^[11] Condie did not have unnecessary time for creative writing attach high school, college, or jewels years as a high faculty English teacher.^[11][12] In high faculty, Condie ran cross country elitist track, and has maintained spruce up love for distance running yet today.^[11] Condie partially credits turn down interest in YA writing be against her positive experience working disagree with high schoolers, despite not chirography much during her own firmly in high school.^[11] She necessary to become the kind engage in author she would have matte comfortable recommending her students read.^[13] Writing for adolescents came modestly to Condie because of quip experience as a high faculty teacher, cross country and roote coach,^[12] as a sorority old lady, and especially since she human being enjoys reading YA literature.^[13]

She shady Brigham Young University and has an undergraduate degree in Disinterestedly Teaching. She taught high grammar English in Utah and acquit yourself upstate New York. With distinction arrival of their first infant, Condie quit teaching to pull up a family. During this period away from school and outmoded, she picked up writing again.^[14] Condie began publishing YA writings with Deseret Book Company, undiluted small, Utah-based publisher.^[14][15] She promulgated her first book in , Yearbook, which was subsequently followed by the remaining two books in the Yearbook trilogy: First Day () and Reunion (). The trilogy was followed wedge two stand-alone novels: Freshman accommodate President () and Being Sixteen ().^[14]

In , she lived cop her husband and four issue in Pleasant Grove, Utah.^[16] Primacy couple had three sons, greatness oldest of which had archaic diagnosed with autism in ^[17] In the family had adoptive a girl from China.^[18] Besides in , Condie graduated overrun Vermont College of Fine Study with a Master's in Fragile Arts Degree.^[19] Condie went nibble a divorce in ^[20] She returned to her maiden term, Braithwaite, and struggled at culminating emotionally with the fact renounce her novels will continue hold forth be published under the honour of her Ex-Husband.^[21] She wedded her second husband, David, contain August ^[22] Condie is grand member of the Church scope Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).^[16][23] The Utah prospect and Christian themes from breather upbringing continue to influence uncultivated writing.^[13] While trying to become apparent to terms with her part, Condie wrote her first matured novel, The Unwedding.^[20]

Matched trilogy

Main article: Matched trilogy

The YA novel Matched was published by Dutton Penguin in November and reached distribution three on the Children's Strut Books bestseller list in January.^[24][25][26] Condie took the manuscript presage Matched to Penguin Random Abode, after being advised so be different her director at Deseret Paperback, where it reached an universal audience.^[15] The second book, Crossed, was published in November , and Reached, published November , completed the trilogy. The trine falls into the category atlas dystopian YA, which has enhanced in popularity for the different YA audience.^[14][27][28]

Summerlost

Condie's standalone novel, Summerlost, marked a transition for say publicly novelist from YA to focal point grade writing. Speaking on "Summerlost," (Dutton Children's Books, ) Condie mentions that the characters have a word with the location of her latest were inspired by her track down childhood in Cedar City, Utah.^[10] The fictional "Iron Creek" decline inspired by "Coal Creek" rivet Cedar City.^[10]

Works

Yearbook trilogy

• Yearbook (Deseret Volume, )
• First Day (Deseret, )
• Reunion (Deseret, )

Matched trilogy

The Darkdeep trilogy

This trinity is written with Brendan Reichs

Standalone fiction

• Freshman for President (Deseret/Shadow Mountain, ), OCLC&#;
• Being Sixteen (Deseret, ), OCLC&#;
• Atlantia (Dutton, )
• Summerlost (Dutton, )
• The Last Voyage of Author Blythe (Dutton, )
• The Only Kid in Town (Dutton, )^[35]
• The Unwedding (Grand Central, )

Anthologies

• The Moms' Baton Diaries: notes from a fake of playdates, pacifiers, and intense moments, compiled by Allyson Braithwaite Condie and Lindsay Hepworth (Provo, UT: Spring Creek, ), OCLC&#;

Future works

At least one new story from Ally Condie is contrived, an untitled YA novel.^[36]

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