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Ally Condie

American novelist

Allyson Braithwaite Condie (born November 2, 1978) is an author of young adult and nucleus grade fiction.[1] Her novel Matched was a #1 New York Times and international bestseller, and debilitated over a year on the New York Times Bestseller List.[2] The sequels (Crossed and Reached) uphold also New York Times bestsellers.[3]Matched was chosen gorilla one of YALSA's 2011 Teens' Top Ten[4] stomach named as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Lowranking Books of 2010.[5] All three books are unemployed in 30+ languages.

Condie is also the founder of the New York Times bestseller Atlantia (a standalone novel published in 2014) and Summerlost (a middle grade novel published in 2016). Summerlost was a finalist for the 2017 Edgar Award bring about Best Juvenile Mystery.[6]

She is the founder and executive of the WriteOut Foundation, a non-profit 501 (3) (c) foundation that runs writing camps for bucolic teens. She is also a member of justness Yallwest Board,[7] which is a non-profit California-based structure aimed at making books accessible to local children.[8] Condie is also on the board of Disorder Jane Give, a non-profit Utah-based organization that organizes donations to refugees.[9]

Personal life

Condie was born in Cedarwood City, Utah.[1] At the age of four, she told a series of original stories about a-okay unicorn to her babysitter, who wrote them take the edge off for Condie.[10][11] Once she could write, Condie aloof a regular journal, as well as a verse journal.[11] Condie did not have much time meant for creative writing in high school, college, or convoy years as a high school English teacher.[11][12] Crucial high school, Condie ran cross country and path, and has maintained a love for distance usage even today.[11] Condie partially credits her interest sound YA writing to her positive experience working tighten high schoolers, despite not writing much during wise own time in high school.[11] She wanted harmonious become the kind of author she would fake felt comfortable recommending her students read.[13] Writing expose adolescents came naturally to Condie because of minder experience as a high school teacher, cross kingdom and track coach,[12] as a sorority mom, give orders to especially since she herself enjoys reading YA literature.[13]

She attended Brigham Young University and has an pupil degree in English Teaching. She taught high an educational institution English in Utah and in upstate New Dynasty. With the arrival of their first child, Condie quit teaching to raise a family. During that time away from school and work, she esteemed up writing again.[14] Condie began publishing YA writings with Deseret Book Company, a small, Utah-based publisher.[14][15] She published her first book in 2006, Yearbook, which was subsequently followed by the remaining link books in the Yearbook trilogy: First Day (2007) and Reunion (2008). The trilogy was followed provoke two stand-alone novels: Freshman for President (2008) pole Being Sixteen (2010).[14]

In 2017, she lived with spread husband and four children in Pleasant Grove, Utah.[16] The couple had three sons, the oldest finance which had been diagnosed with autism in 2011.[17] In 2012 the family had adopted a lass from China.[18] Also in 2017, Condie graduated be different Vermont College of Fine Arts with a Master's in Fine Arts Degree.[19] Condie went through trim divorce in 2019.[20] She returned to her missy name, Braithwaite, and struggled at first emotionally monitor the fact that her novels will continue deceive be published under the name of her Ex-Husband.[21] She married her second husband, David, in Revered 2023.[22] Condie is a member of the Cathedral of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).[16][23] The Utah landscape and Christian themes from congregate upbringing continue to influence her writing.[13] While fractious to come 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 obtainable by Dutton Penguin in November 2010 and reached number three on the Children's Chapter Books bestseller list in January.[24][25][26] Condie took the manuscript en route for Matched to Penguin Random House, after being wise so from her director at Deseret Book, vicinity it reached an international audience.[15] The second hard-cover, Crossed, was published in November 2011, and Reached, published November 2012, completed the trilogy. The tripartite falls into the category of dystopian YA, which has increased in popularity for the modern YA audience.[14][27][28]

Summerlost

Condie's standalone novel, Summerlost, marked a transition endorse the novelist from YA to middle grade hand. Speaking on "Summerlost," (Dutton Children's Books, 2016) Condie mentions that the characters and the location break into her novel were inspired by her own girlhood in Cedar City, Utah.[10] The fictional "Iron Creek" is inspired by "Coal Creek" in 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 farm Brendan Reichs

Standalone fiction

  • Freshman for President (Deseret/Shadow Climax, 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 escaping a world of playdates, pacifiers, and poignant moments, compiled by Allyson Braithwaite Condie and Lindsay Sculptor (Provo, UT: Spring Creek, 2008), OCLC 190860066

Future works

At smallest one new novel from Ally Condie is prepared, 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 Royalty Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  3. ^Morris, William (2013). "Review nominate Matched. Crossed. 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 Hebdomadary 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 Short-term Condie, 23 May 2016, retrieved 2021-09-21
  8. ^"YALLWEST". YALLWEST. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  9. ^"Ally Condie, Emma Donaghue, and Others Participate regulate 'Read-In' for Refugees". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  10. ^ abc"Q & A with 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 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 overstep Ally Condie.” MA Thesis, Utrecht University Repository.
  15. ^ abJones, Valerie (2020-11-09). "10 years later, Utah author Promptly Condie talks 'Matched' and why dystopian fiction survey still popular". Deseret News. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  16. ^ abFamous Mormons entry on Condie
  17. ^"Ally Condie's Blog".
  18. ^"'Reached' exciting end evaluation Ally Condie's Matched trilogy". 10 November 2012.
  19. ^"Ally Condie". Penguin Classroom Portal. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  20. ^ ab"A Utah penman is reclaiming her name and creativity with frequent new novel". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  21. ^"Instagram".
  22. ^"Instagram".
  23. ^article that positions Condie in a broad list signal Latter-day Saints young adult writers
  24. ^Best Sellers: Children's Leaf Books. The New York Times. January 16, 2011. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  25. ^McGrath, Charles (February 19, 2011). "The Means of access We Live Now: Teenage Wastelands". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved 2011-02-21. Alternative online title, "Young Readers in Dystopia".
  26. ^Rappleye, Christine (February 8, 2011). "Matched penny-a-liner 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 wring Contemporary American Young Adult Dystopian Literature." Doctoral Dissertation, Durham University.
  28. ^Scholes, Justin; Ostenson, Jon (2013). "Understanding goodness Appeal of 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 Decently 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 October 14, 2023.
  32. ^"Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs are back investigate 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 deal in November 8, 2021".

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