Ally Carter

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**Ally Carter**
Born:	1974 Oklahoma, United States
Occupation:	novelist
Nationality:	United States
Writing period:	2005-present
Genres:	Chick Lit, Young Adult
Website:	http://www.allycarter.com/

Ally Carter is an American author of young adult and adult fiction. Carter was chosen as her surname because her agent and editor wanted her books to be shelved near bestselling chick lit author Jennifer Crusie's.

1 Biography
2 Career
3 Bibliography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Carter was born in the Midwest in 1974 and grew up in a small town. She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics in 1997, and from Cornell University in 1999, with a master's degree in Agricultural Resource and Applied Economics. She lives in Kansas where she works as an agricultural economist and in human resource management.

An extensive bio with information for book reports and class projects can be found on her blog.

[edit] Career

Her first adult book, Cheating at Solitaire was released in 2005 and tells the story the story of a famously single self-help guru who becomes very publically linked to one of Hollywood's hottest up-and-coming male stars. Carter's first young adult novel, which has been optioned by Disney, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, is a story about a girl who goes to a prestigious spy school and what happens when she falls for a normal boy. It has been selected as a Texas Lone Star reading list book for 2007-2008.^[1]

A sequel to Cheating at Solitaire, Learning to Play Gin was released in November 2006. Because the books were released very close together, Carter has the distinction of releasing her first three books in under a year.