Matthew Tobin Anderson

Matthew Tobin Anderson, known as M. T. Anderson, is an American author, primarily of picture books for children and novels for young adults. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Biography

Born November 4, 1968, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Anderson attended St. Mark's School, Harvard, University of Cambridge, and Syracuse. He worked at Candlewick Press before Thirsty was accepted for publication.[1] Anderson is a former instructor at Vermont College in Montpelier, Vermont, and former music critic for The Improper Bostonian.

Anderson's picture books include Handel Who Knew What He Liked, Strange Mr. Satie, The Serpent Came to Gloucester, and Me, All Alone, at the End of the World. He has written such young adult books as Thirsty, Burger Wuss, Feed, The Game of Sunken Places and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing. His novels for middle school readers include the series Pals in Peril, comprising Whales on Stilts, The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen, Jasper Dash and the Flame Pits of Delaware and "Agent Q, or the Smell of danger". Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales featured one of Anderson's short stories.

Anderson is also a board member of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance,[2] a national non-profit organization that advocates for literacy, literature, and libraries. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Vermont College of Fine Arts.

After learning Anderson included the Governor’s official mailing address in Jasper Dash and the Flame Pits of Delaware, Governor Jack Markell penned a tongue-in-cheek response, which State Librarian Annie Norman presented to M. T. Anderson in September 2009.[3]

Major awards

Feed was a 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, a 2003 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, and a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award.

Handel Who Knew What He Liked was a 2002 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book.

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party (2006) the winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Young People. The Young Adult Library Services Association named it a 2007 Michael L. Printz Honor book for literary excellence in young adult literature.[4]

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (2008) also received a Michael L. Printz Honor for literary excellence in young adult literature.[5]

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Picture books

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