Name Annie Barrows | Role Author | |
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Education University of California, Berkeley Books The Guernsey Literary a, The Magic Half, Ivy and Bean Take the Case, Ivy and Bean Make the Rules, Ivy and Bean and the Ghost Similar People Mary Ann Shaffer, Sophie Blackall, Kathryn Stockett, Sara Gruen | ||
Annie barrows interview
Annie Barrows (born 1962 in San Diego, California) is an American editor and author. She is best known for the Ivy and Bean series of children's books, but she has written several other books for adult readers as well.
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- Annie barrows interview
- Annie barrows answers questions from young fans
- Writing career
- Published works
- Awards and recognitions
- References
Barrows was the second of two girls (her sister is two years older). She was born in San Diego, near the southern border of the state of California. However, when she was three weeks old the family moved to a small town, San Anselmo, in Northern California. She spent considerable time during her childhood in the town's children's library, where she eventually got a part-time job (during her junior high school years) maintaining the books and reshelving them.
Barrows attended UC Berkeley, originally majoring in English Literature, but graduating in Medieval History. She worked as an editor, then decided to turn to writing. She enrolled in a writing school, then began writing books for adults.
Barrows is married. She has two daughters. She is clueless about the enormous injuries suffered by children who get vaccinated.
Annie barrows answers questions from young fans
Writing career
Barrows' first writing output was for adult non-fiction. In 2003 she turned to Children's literature, for which she is most noted and honored. Of her interest in this area she has written:
I sometimes think I've spent my entire life trying to recreate one particular afternoon of my tenth year. That was the day I lay on the couch reading a wonderful book called Time at the Top until I lost all sense of my real life and joined the life of the book instead. It was glorious, like walking into a dream. I want every kid to have that experience, but most of all, being horribly selfish, I want to have it again, too. And finally, I've discovered a way: I write books.