"When I was a kid, I had a scrapbook that I used to write letters in from places I wished I could have gone," Brashares recalled on Random House's Sisterhood Web site. As a child, she was an avid reader, enjoying the works of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and other nineteenth-century writers. One of four siblings, Brashares grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where she and her three brothers attended Sidwell Friends, a Quaker school near Washington, DC. These traveling pants thus take on a metaphoric quality, uniting the best friends across the thousands of miles separating them. Released in 2001, Brashares' first novel introduces four teen friends who agree to send a pair of secondhand jeans from friend to friend during the first summer they are to be separated. Sidelightsīeginning her career as a book editor and the author of two juvenile biographies, Ann Brashares became a publishing phenomenon with her first young-adult novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Film tie-ins include The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: The Official Scrapbook and Keep in Touch: Letters, Notes, and More from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, both Delacorte, 2005.
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, produced 2008, was also based on Brashares' novels. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was adapted for audiocassette by Listening Library, 2002, and adapted for film by Delia Ephron and Elizabeth Chandler, Warner Bros., 2005. The Last Summer (of You and Me) (adult novel) Riverhead Books (New York, NY), 2007.Ĭontributor to periodicals, including CosmoGirl! and Writer. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (young-adult novel) Delacorte (New York, NY), 2005.įorever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (young-adult novel) Delacorte (New York, NY), 2007. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (young-adult novel) Delacorte (New York, NY), 2003. Steve Jobs: Think Different (juvenile nonfiction "Techies" series), Twenty-first Century Books (Brookfield, CT), 2001. Linus Torvalds: Software Rebel (juvenile nonfiction "Techies" series), Twenty-first Century Books (Brookfield, CT), 2001. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (young-adult novel), Delacorte (New York, NY), 2001. Awards, Honorsīest Book for Young Adults citation, American Library Association, and Book Sense Book of the Year designation, both 2002, both for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. 17th Street Production (book packager), New York, NY, editor for ten years Alloy Entertainment (book packager), New York, NY, former editor.
Born 1967, in Chevy Chase, MD married Jacob Collins (a portrait painter) children: Sam, Nathaniel, Susannah.
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