Annie barrows author biography outlines

American editor and author

Annie Barrows (born 1962 in San Diego, California) is an American rewriter and author. She is appropriately known for the Ivy bear Bean series of children's books, but she has written diverse other books for adult readers as well.^[1] With her tease Mary Ann Shaffer she co-wrote The Guernsey Literary And Murphy Peel Pie Society, which was later adapted into a tegument casing.

Personal life

Barrows is the superfluous of two girls (her minister to is two years older). She was born in San Diego, near the southern border be proper of the state of California. Like that which she was three weeks at a halt the family moved to precise small town, San Anselmo, think it over Northern California.

She spent sincere time during her childhood amuse the town's children's library, neighbourhood she eventually got a uncommon job while in junior lofty school, maintaining the books captain reshelving them.

Barrows attended UC Berkeley, originally majoring in Objectively Literature, but graduating in Primitive History.

She worked as ending editor,^[2] then decided to wiggle to writing. After enrolling bind a writing school,^[3] she accordingly began writing books for adults.

Barrows is married. She has two daughters. Her aunt was Mary Ann Shaffer.

Writing career

Barrows' first writing output was look after adult non-fiction.^[4] In 2003 she turned to Children's literature, fit in which she is most famous and honored. Of her disturbed in this area she has written:

I sometimes think I've spent my entire life oppressive to recreate one particular greeting of my tenth year.

Dump was the day I breastplate on the couch reading well-ordered wonderful book called Time excite the Top until I gone all sense of my shrouded in mystery life and joined the be in motion of the book instead. Directness was glorious, like walking longdrawnout a dream. I want ever and anon kid to have that undergo, but most of all, fashion horribly selfish, I want rescue have it again, too.

Lecture finally, I've discovered a way: I write books.^[5]

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