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Wendy Diane Isdell (born March 30, 1975) is an American author and artist. She is best known for her young adult works, which incorporate science and math into fiction. Her most popular novel, ''A Gebra Named Al,'' has been in print since 1993.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Free Spirit Publishing Author Page, Wendy Isdell )〕 It has been translated into several languages, made required reading in some school systems, and published internationally. Wendy Isdell dedicated much of her early life to writing. Her first notable publishing credit came at age nine, through articles in the Haydon Elementary School newsletter (the first ever by a student). Seven years later, she signed a contract for her first novel, ''A Gebra Named Al,'' with Free Spirit Publishing〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Free Spirit Publishing Author Page, Wendy Isdell )〕 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The sequel was published two years later. Wendy Isdell was also a pioneer of the internet, having developed websites as early as November 1994. (However, the Internet Archive project has records for her original website dating back only to 1999,〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Internet Archive Project, Wayback Machine )〕 the older records presumably having been lost.) She was a contributor for early versions of DreamingGates.com,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DreamingGates.com, Mythological and Metaphysical Gifts )〕 experimenting with javascript and css to create a rudimentary shopping cart as early as 1999. Wendy Isdell graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1997 from Hofstra University with a B.A. in Creative Arts, then Summa Cum Laude from Mary Washington University in 2004 with an M.A. in General Studies. She went on to obtain a Doctorate of Divinity and Ph.D. in Religion. Wendy Isdell currently lives in a rural community in central Virginia. On her website〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wendy Isdell Official Site )〕 she jests that she "talks to her plants" and has had "moderate success at being a starving artist."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wendy Isdell Official Site )〕 For health reasons, she rarely ventures out. == Bibliography == * ''A Gebra Named Al'' (Free Spirit, 1994) ISBN 978-0-915793-58-7 * ''Using A Gebra Named Al in the Classroom'' (Free Spirit, 1994) * ''The Chemy Called Al'' (Free Spirit, 19396; Lulu Press, 2006) ISBN 0-915793-96-2 * ''Using The Chemy Called Al in the Classroom'' (Free Spirit, 1996; Lulu Press, 2006) 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「Wendy Isdell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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