Ally Condie
Encyclopedia
Ally Condie is a female American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 novelist. She is the author of New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

bestseller Matched
Matched
Matched is a young adult novel written by Ally Condie that takes place in a dystopian future.-Inspirations and publishing history:The idea for Matched came in 2008 when Condie's husband asked her "What if someone wrote the perfect algorithm for lining people up, and the government used it to decide...

which was published by Dutton (Penguin) in November 2010. It is planned to be the first of a series.

Matched

Matched
Matched
Matched is a young adult novel written by Ally Condie that takes place in a dystopian future.-Inspirations and publishing history:The idea for Matched came in 2008 when Condie's husband asked her "What if someone wrote the perfect algorithm for lining people up, and the government used it to decide...

was published by Dutton (Penguin) in November 2010. It is planned to be the first of a series. The second book, Crossed
Crossed (novel)
Crossed is a young adult novel written by Ally Condie. It is the sequel to Matched and the second book in the Matched trilogy.-Plot summary:...

, was published in November 2011, and the third in November 2012.

The novel has been optioned to the Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

, and foreign rights have been sold to 30 countries. In February 2011 it reached #9 in Children's Chapter Books in the New York Times bestseller list.

Personal life

Condie went to Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

 and has a degree in English Teaching. She taught high school English in Utah and in upstate New York. She lives with her husband and three sons in Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

and enjoys writing, running, reading, eating, and listening to her husband play guitar.

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK