website birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
-lsb- http://www.wendyisdell.com/ wendy isdell official website -rsb- richmond , virginia 30 march 1975 wendy isdell
 wendy isdell author
wendy isdell

wendy diane isdell -lrb- born march 30 , 1975 -rrb- 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 .
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 -lrb- the first ever by a student -rrb- .
seven years later , she signed a contract for her first novel , `` a gebra named al , '' with free spirit publishing 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 .
-lrb- however , the internet archive project has records for her original website dating back only to 1999 , the older records presumably having been lost . -rrb-
she was a contributor for early versions of dreaminggates.com , 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 she jests that she `` talks to her plants '' and has had `` moderate success at being a starving artist . ''
for health reasons , she rarely ventures out .
