Matthew Tobin Anderson
Matthew Tobin Anderson
Matthew Tobin Anderson, known as M.T. Andersonis an American writer of children's books that range from picture books to young-adult novels. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2006 for The Pox Party, the first of two "Octavian Nothing" books, which are historical novels set in Revolution-era Boston. Anderson is known for using wit and sarcasm in his stories, as well as advocating that young adults are capable of mature comprehension...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 November 1968
CountryUnited States of America
If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.