A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
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Birth: | 30th July, 1967 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Author, Novelist, Writer |
Ann Brashares is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. Brashares was born in Alexandria, Virginia and grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland. After studying philosophy at Barnard College, she worked as an editor for 17th Street Productions. Brashares' first adult novel, The Last Summer was released in 2007. The first companion book to the Sisterhood series, 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows was published in 2009, and the second companion book, Sisterhood Everlasting was published in 2011. A second novel for adults, My Name is Memory was published in 2010 and has been optioned for film. This was followed by a young-adult time travel novel, The Here and Now, published in April 2014. She lives in New York with her artist husband, Jacob Collins, and children Nathaniel, Samuel, Susannah, and Isaiah.
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