Ann M. Martin

Ann Matthews Martin (born August 12, 1955) is an American children's writer.

Ann Martin grew up in Princeton, New Jersey with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. She graduated from Smith College. After this, Martin became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. Now, she is a full-time writer.

Martin finds the ideas for her books from many different things. Some are based on what she has done herself. Others are based on childhood memories and feelings. All of the characters that Ann uses in her books, including the members of The Baby-Sitters Club, are fictional. However, 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.

In 1990, she started the Ann M. Martin Foundation. This gives money to causes which help children, education/literacy programs, homeless people and animals.

Books
 The Baby-sitters Club series
 Baby-Sitters Little Sister series
 The Kids in Ms. Colman's Class series
 California Diaries series
 P.S. Longer Letter Later with Paula Danziger
 Snail Mail No More with Paula Danziger
 Leo The Magnificent
 Rachel Parker, Kindergarten Showoff
 Ten Kids, No Pets
 Eleven Kids, One Summer
 Ma and Pa Dracula
 Yours Turly, Shirley
 Just a Summer Romance
 Missing Since Monday
 With and Without You
 Me and Katie (The Pest)
 Stage Fright
 Inside Out
 Just You and Me
 Bummer Summer
 A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
 Everything for a Dog
 The Doll People series
 A Corner of the Universe
 Belle Teal
 Here Today
 Main Street
 Needle and Thread
 'Tis the Season
 Welcome to Camden Falls
 On Christmas Eve
 Ten Rules for Living with My Sister

References

 Other websites 
 Ann M. Martin page from Scholastic, her publisher

Category:Writers from New Jersey
Category:Living people
Category:1955 births
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American cartoonists
Category:American children's writers
Category:People from Princeton, New Jersey