Ann Brashares (born July 30, 1967) is an American

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novelist. She is best known as the author of ''

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' is a series of five bestselling Young adult literature, young adult novels by Ann Brashares: ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (novel), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001),'' ''The Second S ...

'' series.

Life and career

Brashares was born in

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, and grew up in

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, with her three brothers. She attended elementary and high school at the Sidwell Friends School in

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After studying philosophy at

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, she worked as an editor for 17th Street Productions. 17th Street was acquired by

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, and following the acquisition she worked briefly for Alloy. After leaving Alloy she wrote ''

'' (2001), which became an international best seller. It was followed with three more titles in the "Pants" series that were '' The Second Summer of the Sisterhood'' (2003), '' Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood'' (2005) and '' Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood'' (2007). The first book in the series was adapted into the film ''

'' in 2005. The sequel, '' The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2'', based on the other three novels in the series was released in August 2008. Brashares' first novel for adults, ''

The Last Summer (of You and Me) ''The Last Summer (of You and Me)'' is a novel written by Ann Brashares. Her first novel for adults, and her first outside of her acclaimed ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Traveling Pants'' series, it was released on June 6, 2007 by Ri ...

'' 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. Her second novel for adults, '' My Name is Memory'' was published in 2010 and has been optioned for film. Brashares' young-adult

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novel, ''The Here and Now'', was published in April 2014. She resides in

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with her artist husband, Jacob Collins, and children Samuel, Nathaniel, Susannah and Isaiah.

Works

Brashares mainly writes for young adults. Besides the ''Sisterhood'' series and its two companion books, ''3 Willows'' and ''Sisterhood Everlasting'', she has contributed two 80-page biographies to the nonfiction book series ''Techies'' and has published two standalone novels for adults. She won the Indies Choice Book Award for Children's Literature in 2002, and won the

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for Young teen/adult in 2005.

Nonfiction

*2001 – ''

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, Software Rebel'' ( Twenty-First Century Books, 2001) *2001 – ''

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Thinks Different'' (Twenty-First Century, 2001)

Fiction

*2001 – ''

'' *2003 – '' The Second Summer of the Sisterhood'' *2005 – '' Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood'' *2007 – '' Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood'' *2007 – ''

'' *2009 – '' 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows'' *2010 – '' My Name Is Memory'' *2011 – '' Sisterhood Everlasting'' *2014 – ''The Here and Now'' (Delacorte, April 2014)"The hear and now"
Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved February 16, 2014. *2017 – ''The Whole Thing Together''

References

External links

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Teenreads biography

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brashares, Ann The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 1967 births American children's writers American young adult novelists Barnard College alumni Living people Writers from Alexandria, Virginia Writers from Chevy Chase, Maryland Novelists from Maryland Novelists from New York (state) American women novelists 21st-century American novelists American women children's writers 21st-century American women writers American women writers of young adult literature Novelists from Virginia