Ann brashares biography

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    Brashares, Ann 1967–

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    American author of young adult novels and juvenile biographies.

    The following entry presents an overview of Brashares's career through 2005.

    INTRODUCTION

    Using the premise of a "magical" pair of pants passed between friends, Brashares created a best-selling series for young adults with The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001) and its subsequent sequels, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (2003) and Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (2005). Centering on the lives of four teenage girls, the novels demonstrate the bond between the friends and illustrate the experiences associated with the adolescence and burgeoning maturity of young women. The protagonists—life-long friends—pledge to send a pair of secondhand jeans from friend to friend the first summer they are to be separated. These traveling pants thus take on a metaphoric quality, uniting the best fr

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    Brashares talks about the importance of female friendships, why she chose the travelling pants as the theme for her books, when she first fell in love, and much more.

    “I don’t really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.”—Ann Brashares

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    Ann Brashares grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with three brothers and attended a Quaker school in the D.C. area called Sidwell Friends. She studied Philosophy at Barnard College, part of Columbia University in New York City. Expecting to continue studying philosophy in graduate school, Ann 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. Ann made the transition f

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    Ann Brashares

    American children's writer

    Ann Brashares (born July 30, 1967)[1] is an American ung adult novelist. She fryst vatten best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series.

    Life and career

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    Brashares was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her three brothers. She attended elementary and high school at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. After studying philosophy at Barnard College, she worked as an editor for 17th Street Productions. 17th Street was acquired bygd Alloy Entertainment, and following the acquisition she worked briefly for Alloy.

    After leaving Alloy she wrote The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (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 Sis