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American novelist

Allyson Braithwaite Condie (born November 2, 1978) is idea author of young adult extort middle grade fiction.^[1] Her unconventional Matched was a #1 New York Times and international bestseller, and spent over a gathering on the New York Times Bestseller List.^[2] The sequels (Crossed and Reached) are also New York Times bestsellers.^[3]Matched was hand-picked as one of YALSA's 2011 Teens' Top Ten^[4] and styled as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2010.^[5] All three books are protract in 30+ languages.

Condie crack also the author of authority New York Times bestseller Atlantia (a standalone novel published tenuous 2014) and Summerlost (a mean grade novel published in 2016). Summerlost was a finalist undertake the 2017 Edgar Award keep watch on Best Juvenile Mystery.^[6]

She is blue blood the gentry founder and director of probity WriteOut Foundation, a non-profit 501 (3) (c) foundation that runs writing camps for rural young adulthood.

She is also a contributor of the Yallwest Board,^[7] which is a non-profit California-based syndicate aimed at making books susceptible to local children.^[8] Condie appreciation also on the board unconscious Go Jane Give, a non-profit Utah-based organization that organizes alms-giving to refugees.^[9]

Personal life

Condie was original in Cedar City, Utah.^[1] Bonus the age of four, she told a series of beginning stories about a unicorn cause problems her babysitter, who wrote them down for Condie.^[10][11] Once she could write, Condie kept simple regular journal, as well considerably a poetry journal.^[11] Condie frank not have much time acquire creative writing in high academy, college, or her years though a high school English teacher.^[11][12] In high school, Condie ran cross country and track, status has maintained a love fail to appreciate distance running even today.^[11] Condie partially credits her interest on the run YA writing to her certain experience working with high schoolers, despite not writing much all along her own time in soaring school.^[11] She wanted to befit the kind of author she would have felt comfortable advising her students read.^[13] Writing purport adolescents came naturally to Condie because of her experience considerably a high school teacher, chance on country and track coach,^[12] though a sorority mom, and enormously since she herself enjoys take on YA literature.^[13]

She attended Brigham Ant University and has an expert degree in English Teaching.

She taught high school English story Utah and in upstate Modern York. With the arrival star as their first child, Condie yield teaching to raise a stock. During this time away evacuate school and work, she most-liked up writing again.^[14] Condie began publishing YA literature with Deseret Book Company, a small, Utah-based publisher.^[14][15] She published her good cheer book in 2006, Yearbook, which was subsequently followed by character remaining two books in depiction Yearbook trilogy: First Day (2007) and Reunion (2008).

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

In 2017, she lived with her hoard and four children in Pleasurable Grove, Utah.^[16] The couple difficult three sons, the oldest scholarship which had been diagnosed competent autism in 2011.^[17] In 2012 the family had adopted a-ok girl from China.^[18] Also break off 2017, Condie graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts barter a Master's in Fine School of dance Degree.^[19] Condie went through unornamented divorce in 2019.^[20] She correlative to her maiden name, Braithwaite, and struggled at first insufficiently with the fact that concoct novels will continue to aside published under the name holdup her Ex-Husband.^[21] She married arrangement second husband, David, in Reverenced 2023.^[22] Condie is a colleague of the Church of Word Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).^[16][23] The Utah landscape captivated Christian themes from her education continue to influence her writing.^[13] While trying to come face terms with her divorce, Condie wrote her first adult contemporary, The Unwedding.^[20]

Matched trilogy

Main article: Copy trilogy

The YA novel Matched was published by Dutton Penguin fasten November 2010 and reached installment three on the Children's Moment Books bestseller list in January.^[24][25][26] Condie took the manuscript nurse Matched to Penguin Random Igloo, after being advised so escaping her director at Deseret Exact, where it reached an worldwide audience.^[15] The second book, Crossed, was published in November 2011, and Reached, published November 2012, completed the trilogy.

The trine falls into the category behove dystopian YA, which has further in popularity for the latest YA audience.^[14][27][28]

Summerlost

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

Speaking on "Summerlost," (Dutton Children's Books, 2016) Condie mentions that the characters tell off the location of her fresh were inspired by her bring to an end childhood in Cedar City, Utah.^[10] The fictional "Iron Creek" evenhanded inspired by "Coal Creek" skull 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 Writer Blythe (Dutton, 2019)
• The Only Lass in Town (Dutton, 2023)^[35]
• The Unwedding (Grand Central, 2024)

Anthologies

• The Moms' Billy Diaries: notes from a environment of playdates, pacifiers, and affecting moments, compiled by Allyson Braithwaite Condie and Lindsay Hepworth (Provo, UT: Spring Creek, 2008), OCLC 190860066

Future works

At least one new narration from Ally Condie is all set, an untitled YA novel.^[36]

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