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= MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX'S Biography =



Childhood
As a kid,the far-out, only-in-your dreams career I wanted was to be an author. All the grown-ups I knew were farmers (like my dad) or nurses (like my mom), teachers or dentists, housewives or grocery store clerks, etc., Among the AA The only authors I’d ever heard of were, well, just in books.

I grew up on a farm about halfway between two small towns: Washington Court House, Ohio, and Sabina, Ohio. I come from both a long line of farmers, and a long line of bookworms.

Education and Job Expirience
I hedged my bets a bit when I went off to college. I did major in creative writing, but I also majored in journalism (and history, just for fun). Except for the summer after my freshman year of college, when I worked as an assistant cook at a 4-H camp (which was lots and lots of fun), every job I’ve held since then has been related to writing in some way. During college, I worked on my school newspaper and had summer internships at newspapers in Urbana, Ohio.

Family And Personal Life
As a kid, I also longed for a career that I didn’t actually believe real people got to do. The far-out, only-in-your dreams career I wanted was to be an author. All the grown-ups I knew were farmers (like my dad) or nurses (like my mom), teachers or dentists, housewives or grocery store clerks, etc., etc. The only authors I’d ever heard of were, well, just in books.

other books
Turnabout Among The Hidden Because of Anya Double Identity Just Ella The Girl with 500 Middle Names The House on the Gulf] Running Out of Time Say What?

=__**// Margret Peterson Haddix //**__=



Childhood
As a kid,the far-out, only-in-your dreams career I wanted was to be an author. All the grown-ups I knew were farmers (like my dad) or nurses (like my mom), teachers or dentists, housewives or grocery store clerks, etc., Among the AA The only authors I’d ever heard of were, well, just in books.

I grew up on a farm about halfway between two small towns: Washington Court House, Ohio, and Sabina, Ohio. I come from both a long line of farmers, and a long line of bookworms.

Education and Job Expirience
I hedged my bets a bit when I went off to college. I did major in creative writing, but I also majored in journalism (and history, just for fun). Except for the summer after my freshman year of college, when I worked as an assistant cook at a 4-H camp (which was lots and lots of fun), every job I’ve held since then has been related to writing in some way. During college, I worked on my school newspaper and had summer internships at newspapers in Urbana, Ohio.

Personal Life
As a kid, I also longed for a career that I didn’t actually believe real people got to do. The far-out, only-in-your dreams career I wanted was to be an author. All the grown-ups I knew were farmers (like my dad) or nurses (like my mom), teachers or dentists, housewives or grocery store clerks, etc., etc. The only authors I’d ever heard of were, well, just in books.

Other books
Turnabout Among The Hidden Because of Anya Double Identity Just Ella The Girl with 500 Middle Names The House on the Gulf] Running Out of Time Say What?

= Margaret Peterson Haddix (Kristin Claypoole) = = = === Childhood: Margret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm between two small towns, Washington Court House, Ohio, and Sabina, Ohio. She had a long line of farmers and bookworms in her family. When her and her family would go on vacations her parents would say things like "Would you guys stop reading for a minute and look out the window? Thats the Grand Canyon we're driving past! Education and Job experience: She went to college and majored in creative wrighting, jornalism, and history for fun. The summer after her freshman year of college she worked as an assistant at a 4-H camp. Any other job she has had had wrighting in it in someway. During college she worked on her school newspaper and had summer interships at newspapers in Urbana, Ohio, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Indianoplis, Indiana. After college she worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Then sje quickly moved back to Indianoplis to work as a news paper reporter. Family and Personal Life: Living in a foreign country was a great way for her to think about, who she was?, What shaped her as a person?, Why she belived what she belived, What she wants out of life, What shaped all the people she seen around her, Why they believed what they belived, and What they want out of life? For most of her time as a journalist she worked as a general assignment reporter, which ment she could be covering a fire one day, a scientific break through the next, a politicians news conference the next. She married her college sweetheart Doug, he also went into journalism right after school. Doug had gotten a job as a city editor of a newspaper in Danville, Illnois it seemed like a big complication for Margrets career, if she wanted to continue as a newspaper reporter she knew she would probably have to have her husband as a boss. Her and her husband agreed to see this complication as an opputunity: this would be her chance to concentrate on fiction wrighting. She took part time jobs teaching wrighting at a community college and dooing freelance bussiness wrighting. While she worked on wrighting stories her and her husband decided to start a family. Books Margret Peterson Haddix wrote: ===


 * 1) Among The Hidden
 * 2) Because of Anya
 * 3) Double Identity
 * 4) Just Ella
 * 5) The Girl With 500 Middle Names
 * 6) The House on the Gulf
 * 7) Running out of Time
 * 8) Say What?
 * 9) Turnabout
 * 10) Claim to Fame (Coming on Nov. 10)