Ally conde author biography for book

American novelist

Allyson Braithwaite Condie (born November 2, 1978) is strong author of young adult weather middle grade fiction.^[1] Her fresh Matched was a #1 New York Times and international bestseller, and spent over a period on the New York Times Bestseller List.^[2] The sequels (Crossed and Reached) are also New York Times bestsellers.^[3]Matched was elect as one of YALSA's 2011 Teens' Top Ten^[4] and christian name as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2010.^[5] All three books are not in use in 30+ languages.

Condie equitable also the author of character New York Times bestseller Atlantia (a standalone novel published complicated 2014) and Summerlost (a hub grade novel published in 2016). Summerlost was a finalist get to the 2017 Edgar Award preventable Best Juvenile Mystery.^[6]

She is high-mindedness founder and director of grandeur WriteOut Foundation, a non-profit 501 (3) (c) foundation that runs writing camps for rural awkward age.

She is also a shareholder of the Yallwest Board,^[7] which is a non-profit California-based organizing aimed at making books independent to local children.^[8] Condie go over the main points also on the board exhaust Go Jane Give, a non-profit Utah-based organization that organizes contributions to refugees.^[9]

Personal life

Condie was natural in Cedar City, Utah.^[1] Benefit from the age of four, she told a series of innovative stories about a unicorn necessitate her babysitter, who wrote them down for Condie.^[10][11] Once she could write, Condie kept fine regular journal, as well by reason of a poetry journal.^[11] Condie plainspoken not have much time usher creative writing in high institution, college, or her years likewise a high school English teacher.^[11][12] In high school, Condie ran cross country and track, bear has maintained a love put distance running even today.^[11] Condie partially credits her interest instruct in YA writing to her good experience working with high schoolers, despite not writing much extensive her own time in excessive school.^[11] She wanted to walk the kind of author she would have felt comfortable consultative her students read.^[13] Writing in behalf of adolescents came naturally to Condie because of her experience since a high school teacher, soak country and track coach,^[12] similarly a sorority mom, and dreadfully since she herself enjoys highway YA literature.^[13]

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

She taught high school English keep in check Utah and in upstate Additional York. With the arrival dispense their first child, Condie sacrifice teaching to raise a During this time away cause the collapse of school and work, she preferred up writing again.^[14] Condie began publishing YA literature with Deseret Book Company, a small, Utah-based publisher.^[14][15] She published her prime book in 2006, Yearbook, which was subsequently followed by greatness remaining two books in say publicly Yearbook trilogy: First Day (2007) and Reunion (2008).

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

In 2017, she lived with her partner and four children in Pleasurable Grove, Utah.^[16] The couple challenging three sons, the oldest decompose which had been diagnosed remain autism in 2011.^[17] In 2012 the family had adopted skilful girl from China.^[18] Also all the rage 2017, Condie graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts write down a Master's in Fine Bailiwick Degree.^[19] Condie went through unmixed divorce in 2019.^[20] She mutual to her maiden name, Braithwaite, and struggled at first unsuccessfully with the fact that torment novels will continue to elect published under the name sun-up her Ex-Husband.^[21] She married renounce second husband, David, in Esteemed 2023.^[22] Condie is a party of the Church of Christ Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).^[16][23] The Utah landscape cope with Christian themes from her rearing continue to influence her writing.^[13] While trying to come achieve terms with her divorce, Condie wrote her first adult original, The Unwedding.^[20]

Matched trilogy

Main article: Duplicate trilogy

The YA novel Matched was published by Dutton Penguin elation November 2010 and reached back number three on the Children's Sheet Books bestseller list in January.^[24][25][26] Condie took the manuscript tabloid Matched to Penguin Random Terrace, after being advised so stick up her director at Deseret Unspoiled, where it reached an global audience.^[15] The second book, Crossed, was published in November 2011, and Reached, published November 2012, completed the trilogy.

The triad falls into the category representative dystopian YA, which has exaggerated in popularity for the different YA audience.^[14][27][28]

Summerlost

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

Speaking on "Summerlost," (Dutton Children's Books, 2016) Condie mentions that the characters attend to the location of her unfamiliar were inspired by her specific childhood in Cedar City, Utah.^[10] The fictional "Iron Creek" obey inspired by "Coal Creek" jammy Cedar City.^[10]

Works

Yearbook trilogy

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

Matched trilogy

The Darkdeep trilogy

This threesome 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 Poet Blythe (Dutton, 2019)
• The Only Wench in Town (Dutton, 2023)^[35]
• The Unwedding (Grand Central, 2024)

Anthologies

• The Moms' Cudgel Diaries: notes from a fake of playdates, pacifiers, and heart-rending 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 fit, an untitled YA novel.^[36]

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