Ann Hodgman (born 1956) is an American author of more than forty children's books as well as several cookbooks and humor books and many magazine articles.
Biography
Ann Hodgman was raised in
Rochester, New York
Rochester () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, and Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located i ...
and graduated from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
in 1978.
At Harvard, she was a staff member on the ''
Harvard Lampoon
''The Harvard Lampoon'' is an undergraduate Humor magazine, humor publication founded in 1876 by seven undergraduates at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Overview
The ''Harvard Lampoon'' publication was founded in 1876 by seven ...
'' and the ''
Harvard Advocate
''The Harvard Advocate'', the art and literary magazine of Harvard College, is the oldest continuously published college art and literary magazine in the United States. The magazine (published then in newspaper format) was founded by Charles S. ...
''. Between 1978 and 1984, she lived in
New York City
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and worked as a children's book editor for
Bantam Books
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. ...
.
She and her husband, author
David Owen
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, (born 2 July 1938) is a British politician and physician who served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs as a Labour Party MP under James Callaghan from 1977 to 1979, and later ...
, moved to
Washington, Connecticut
Washington is a rural town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. The population was 3,646 at the 2020 census. Washington is known for its picturesque countryside, historic architecture, and active civ ...
and in 1988, she had a son.
Work
Hodgman's ''Beat That! Cookbook'' (1995), was considered one of the funniest cookbooks the ''
Library Journal'' had reviewed. ''How To Die of Embarrassment Every Day'' (2011) is a children's book and also a memoir of her life up to the sixth grade.
References
External links
Ann Hodgman's Website
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Ann Hodgman at Fantastic Fiction
American children's writers
1956 births
Living people
The Harvard Lampoon alumni
People from Washington, Connecticut
Writers from Rochester, New York
Harvard Advocate alumni
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