![]() ![]() Winner, 2006 National Book Award (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party) Honor Book, 2003 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Feed) Winner, 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Feed)įinalist, 2002 National Book Award (Feed) Honor book, 2002 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (Handel, Who knew what he liked) He now lives in Boston and serves on the Board for The National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance, a national non-profit organization that advocates for literacy, literature, and libraries. He has many other jobs during this time as well including: disc jockey for WCUW Radio and an instructor at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he now serves as a board member and as a music critic for the Improper Bostanian. After college he worked at Candlewick press before writing his first novel Thirsty in 1977. Anderson attended Harvard College, the University of Cambridge in England, and Syracuse University. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and had a father who was an engineer and a mother who was an Episcopal priest. Anderson, was born on November 4 th, 1968. ![]() I don’t remember much about it except that Puck sang in a high-pitched voice like the Bee Gees.” Around the same time, we did A Midsummer Night’s Fever, which was supposed to be A Midsummer Night’s Dream recast with John Travolta. ![]() When I was about eleven, we did a dramatic version of Beowulf with a giant foam-rubber dragon puppet and lots of gruesome alliteration. ![]() I began to write plays for my friends to put on. “My love of fantasy became a love of literature. ![]()
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