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MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
MASTER OF THE PAGE-TURNER
Margaret Peterson Haddix was born on April 9, 1964 on a farm near Washington Court House, Ohio. Her father was a farmer and her
mother was a nurse. She has three siblings: two brothers and a sister. She went to college at Miami University in Ohio and majored in
English/Journalism, Creative Writing, and History. She worked as a copy editor at a newspaper in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and as a reporter for the Indianapolis News in Indianapolis. She also has been a freelance
writer and a community college instructor at Danville Community College in Danville, Illinois. She met her husband while in college as he was also a journalism major. When he got a job as a city editor in
Danville, Illinois, Ms. Haddix decided to focus on writing fiction to avoid having her husband as her boss at a newspaper. They now live
outside of Columbus, Ohio and have two children, Meredith and Connor. To date, Ms. Haddix has written more than 25 books with over
4.1 million books sold.
Farm land in Ohio
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
Running Out of Time was her first novel published in 1995. Ms. Haddix is probably best known for The Shadow Children series and The Missing series. She has, however, written many stand-alone books for both younger children and young adults. She also wrote Book 10, Into the Gauntlet, for the 39 Clues series.
The Shadow Children series
The Missing series—Found, Sent,
Sabotaged, Torn, and Caught (to be
released on September 4,
2012).
Margaret Peterson Haddix—Self Portrait
Ms. Haddix grew up in a family of readers, “a long line of bookworms”, she
says. Some of her favorite books/authors as
a child were: E.L. Konigsburg, Harriet the Spy, Louise May Alcott’s
Little Women, Anne Frank, Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm and many, many others. Ms.
Haddix’s grandfather and brothers were interested in science fiction and she
would “borrow” books from them as well. For her, becoming a writer was a natural step from loving books to wanting to create books of her
own.
Running Out of Time was Ms. Haddix’s first novel published in 1995. At the time she was working as a reporter for a newspaper in Indianapolis. She did a story about a nearby historical village called Conner Prairie where they role-play life in the 1800s. She wondered what it was like to live in one century and work in another. Some of the “villagers” said on slow days when there weren’t many tourists, they would sometimes forget that it wasn’t the 1800s. Ms. Haddix was intrigued by the idea that the tourists could be hidden and the village children were led to believe it was really the past—thus the idea for Running Out of Time, but it would take her nine years before it was written, revised, and finally published.
Awards for Running Out of Time : •A Junior Library Guild Selection, 1995 •American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, 1995 •School Library Journal Starred Review, 1995 •Edgar Award Nominee, 1996 •A YALSA Quick Pick for Young Adults, 1996 •California Young Reader Medal Nominee, 1996 •A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 1997 •Sequoyah Young Adult Book Award, 1998 •Arizona Young Readers’ Award, 1998 •Maryland Library Association Black-Eyed Susan Award, 1998 •Nevada Young Readers' Award Nominee, 1998 •Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominee, 1998 •Rebecca Caudhill Young Readers’ Book Award Nominee, 1998 •Pacific Northwest Young Readers’ Choice Award Nominee, 1998 •Nutmeg Book Award Nominee, 1999
Conner Prairie—see video here
Margaret Peterson Haddixon time travel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dLusrjcl_k&feature=player_embedded
Meet Margaret Peterson Haddix: