Wendy Mass
| Wendy Mass | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 22, 1967 Livingston, New Jersey |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English Spanish |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Tufts University |
| Genre | Children's literature, Young adult fiction |
| Notable works | Every Soul a Star |
| Notable awards |
Schneider Family Book Award 2004 A Mango-Shaped Space |
| Website | |
| wendymass |
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Wendy Mass (born April 22, 1967), is an author of young adult novels and children's books.
Her most successful book was A Mango-Shaped Space which won the American Library Association (ALA) Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School in 2004.
Tamar Halpern adapted Wendy Mass's book Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life for a feature film and also directed.
Born in Livingston, New Jersey, Mass's favorite subjects in school were reading and writing. Wendy worked at town libraries and ghostwrote her friends' college applications. As a child she would compete with friends to see who could read the most books; this helped develop her writing skills. Her first career vision was to be an astronaut. Mass's first story, co-written by her two siblings when she was in junior high, starred a cat that somehow turned into a goat and destroyed her neighborhood. She also wrote a non-fiction story about a zoo which won a prize in an 8th grade writing contest.
In high school, Mass worked at local public libraries and continued to hone her writing skills. She took writing classes and decided on writing for her career.
As an English major at Tufts University, Mass continued to develop her writing skills. Mass mainly wrote short stories throughout college. After graduation she moved to Los Angeles, where she tried her hand at a multitude of writing businesses, including assisting a literary agent, and at a television casting company, editor of a magazine, and a script reader for a film producer. Mass however realized she wanted to inspire pre-teens, teens, and adults by writing books for children, teens, and adults. She moved back to her New Jersey hometown and while writing, worked as a book editor, operating out of New York City and Connecticut. She has a master's degree in creative writing from California State, Long Beach and a Doctor of Letters degree from Drew University.
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