Ann Brashares grew up in
Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her three brothers and attended a Quaker school in
the DC area until majoring in philosophy at Barnard College. Expecting to
continue studying philosophy in graduate school, she took a year off after
college to work as an editor, hoping to save money for school. Loving her job,
she never went to graduate school, and instead, remained in New York City and
worked as an editor for many years before making the transition from editor to
full-time writer. She is now the author of the phenomenal
five-million-copies-selling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, and New York Times bestselling adult novels The Last Summer (of You and Me) and My Name Is Memory. She lives in Brooklyn
with her husband and their three children. |