As a child, she was an avid reader, developing a strong rapport with works of historical fiction and science fiction in particular. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONĪnderson was born on October 23, 1961, in Potsdam, New York, to Frank, a Methodist minister, and Joyce Halse. Now the author of a diverse canon of works-encompassing a breadth of age groups from picture books and easy readers to her widely-read novels targeting adolescents-Anderson has continued to demonstrate an insightful awareness of her various juvenile readerships. Her dialectic approach to the material imitates the confessional language of diaries and the smart-aleck tenor of teens themselves, creating a communion of discourse that vitalizes her characters for the young adult reader. Her first novel for teenaged readers, Speak (1999), centered around a high-school girl's year-long struggle following her rape by a classmate at a party, earned her nominations for the 1999 National Book Award in Young People's Literature and a Printz Honor Medal Book Award, among many other honors. Her stories willingly confront the darker aspects of modern adolescent life, incorporating such topics as date rape, teen pregnancy, and internet threats with a realistic and keenly perceptive authorial tone.
With razor wit and uncanny understanding of teen psychology, Anderson's young adult novels sympathetically portray the daily lives of contemporary high school students as they struggle with relationships, identity, class, and one another. The following entry presents an overview of Anderson's career through 2007. American author of young adult novels, juvenile novels, and picture books.
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