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Ann Matthews Martin (born August 12, 1955) is an American children's author. Ann Martin grew up in Princeton, New Jersey with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. Her father was the great cartoonist Henry Martin. After graduating from Smith College, Martin became a teacher and then an editor of children's books; she is now a full-time writer. Martin finds the ideas for her books from many different sources; some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, including the members of ''The Baby-Sitters Club'', are fictional, but many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes. Martin has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.〔(Ann Martin Biography )〕 After Martin wrote the first 35 novels in ''The Baby-Sitters Club'' series〔http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/10/17/peter-baby-sitters-club-/〕 she has since concentrated on writing single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s. One of those novels, ''A Corner of the Universe'', won a Newbery Medal in 2003. In 2010, Martin published a prequel to ''The Baby-Sitters Club'' series titled ''The Summer Before''.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/books/31babysitters.html〕 After living in New York City for many years, Martin moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Pippin, and Willie. Her hobbies include needlepoint, fostering cats, and gardening. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.〔 ==Works== Novels * ''Bummer Summer ''(1983) * ''Inside Out ''(1984) * ''Stage Fright'' (1984) * ''Me and Katie (The Pest) ''(1985) * ''Missing Since Monday'' (1986) * ''With and Without You ''(1986) * ''Just a Summer Romance'' (1987) * ''Slam Book'' (1987) * ''Yours Turly, Shirley'' (1988) * ''Ma and Pa Dracula'' (1989) * ''Belle Teal ''(2001) * ''A Corner of the Universe ''(2002) * ''Here Today ''(2005) * ''On Christmas Eve ''(2006) * ''Rain Reign ''(2014) Novels and Sequels * ''Ten Kids, No Pets'' (1988) * ''Eleven Kids, One Summer'' (1991) * ''P.S. Longer Letter Later'' (1998) with Paula Danziger * ''Snail Mail No More'' (1999) with Paula Danziger * ''A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray ''(2005) * ''Everything for a Dog'' (2009) * ''Ten Rules for Living with My Sister'' (2011) * ''Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life (So Far)'' (2012) Series * ''The Baby-Sitters Club'' series (1986–1990 & 2010) (詳細はBaby-Sitters Little Sister'' series (1988–2000) (詳細はCalifornia Diariesを参照) :# ''Dawn'' (1997) :# ''Sunny'' (1997) :# ''Maggie'' (1997) :# ''Amalia'' (1997) :# ''Ducky'' (1998) :# ''Sunny, Diary Two'' (1998) :# ''Dawn, Diary Two'' (1998) :# ''Maggie, Diary Two'' (1998) :# ''Amalia, Diary Two'' (1998) :# ''Ducky, Diary Two'' (1998) :# ''Dawn, Diary Three'' (1999) :# ''Sunny, Diary Three'' (1999) :# ''Maggie, Diary Three'' (1999) :# ''Amalia, Diary Three'' (2000) :# ''Ducky, Diary Three'' (2000) * ''Main Street'' (2007–2011) *# ''Welcome to Camden Falls'' (2007) *# ''Needle and Thread'' (2007) *# '' *# ''Best Friends'' (2008) *# ''The Secret Book Club'' (2008) *# ''September Surprises'' (2008) *# ''Keeping Secrets'' (2009) *# ''Special Delivery'' (2009) *# ''Coming Apart'' (2010) *# ''Staying Together'' (2011) * ''The Doll People'' series (2000–2008) with Laura Godwin and Brian Selznick *# ''The Doll People'' (2000) *# ''The Meanest Doll in the World'' (2003) *# ''The Runaway Dolls'' (2008) *# ''The Doll People Set Sail'' (2014) * ''Family Tree'' (2013-2014) *# ''Better to Wish'' (2013) *# ''The Long Way Home'' (2013) *# ''Best Kept Secret'' (2014) *# ''Home Is the Place'' (2014) Picture Books * ''Rachel Parker, Kindergarten Showoff'' (1992) with illustrations by Nancy Poydar * ''Leo The Magnificat'' (1996) with illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully Short Stories * ''8 x 2 = Sweet Sixteen'', a short story featuring Karen Brewer included in the children's anthology ''It's Great to Be Eight'' (2000) * ''The Lost Art of Letter Writing'', a short story included in the young adult anthology ''What You Wish For'' (2011) Other Works * ''Because of Shoe and Other Dog Stories'' (edited) (2012) * ''Ten Rules for Living with My Sister'' (2011) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ann M. Martin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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