Annie Barrows
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Annie Barrows | |
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 Barrows at the 2018 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Website | http://www.anniebarrows.com/ |
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.[1] With her aunt Mary Ann Shaffer she co-wrote The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, which was later adapted into a film.
Barrows is 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. 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 while in junior high school, 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,[2] then decided to turn to writing. After enrolling in a writing school,[3] she then began writing books for adults.
Barrows is married. She has two daughters. Her aunt was Mary Ann Shaffer.
Writing career
Barrows' first writing output was for adult non-fiction.[4] 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.[5]
