Ann M. Martin

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Ann Matthews Martin (born August 12, 1955) is an American children's fiction writer best known for the Baby-Sitters Club series.

Early life

Ann Matthews Martin grew up in Princeton, NJ. Eden Martin, a preschool teacher and her father, Henry Martin, was a cartoonist for The New Yorker and other newspapers. Her mother's ancestry can be traced back to the pilgrims who travelled on the Mayflower in 1620. Jane is Jane, Jane's younger sister.

From an early age, Martin began to write. She would command her mother to write down for her before she was old enough to write. Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl were among her favorite writers at the time. Martin loved creative writing in elementary school and discovered her love for writing in second grade. She began writing short stories, and her fourth-grade teacher shared on her student notebook that she would be a good writer because she spent so much of her free time writing in notebooks. English and French were her two favorite subjects in middle school and high school, and math was her least favorite.

Martin loved teaching children as a teenager and decided to become a tutor. She wanted to help children with disabilities, so she worked at the Eden Institute, a special school for autistic children in her hometown.

Martin attended Smith College from 1973 to 1977, after graduating from Princeton High School in 1973. She studied early-childhood education and child psychology. Her senior thesis was on the use of children's literature in the classroom. She worked in Gardiner House and wrote for The Sophian, a Smith College newspaper. Martin said "it was a community of strong, free women, both students and scholars" during her time at Smith, influencing her identity as a feminist and inspiring her to model female characters that were like the people she encountered in her own life.

Personal life

Martin has maintained a relatively low public profile. Martin, who lived in New York City for many years, moved to upstate New York, where she loves nature and fostering kittens. Martin's Facebook page features semi-regular news and snapshots of her personal life. She is always busy with author appearances and adaptations of her books, including the Babysitters' Club graphic novels and a network series. Martin was previously in a relationship with Laura Godwin, with whom she wrote the four Doll People books; she revealed that Godwin was her partner in 2016.

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Career

Martin spent time at Smith College in Noroton, Connecticut, teaching in a split fourth and fifth grade classroom. Her students, aged 8 to 13, struggled with learning difficulties, such as dyslexia and autism. Martin has said that her experiences with special needs children inspired her writing.

Martin, who had been teaching for a year, wanted to go back to publishing. She went from an editorial assistant to a senior editor, and she worked with several well-known children's book publishers, including Pocket Books and Scholastic. She is now a full-time writer.

Martin's first book, Bummer Summer, received the Children's Choice Award in 1985. When working for Scholastic as a children's book editor, she began writing The Baby-Sitters Club series in 1985. Scholastic recruited ghostwriters to continue the series after Martin wrote the first 35 books in The Baby-Sitters Club series. She now focuses on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s. In 2003, A Corner of the Universe, one of those books, received a Newbery Award. Martin wrote The Summer Before, a prequel to The Baby-Sitters Club collection.

Martin obtains her books from a variety of websites; some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many of these articles are about current issues and struggles. All of her characters, as well as the members of The Baby-Sitters Club, are fictional, but some of her stories are based on true people. Sometimes she names her characters after people she knows, while others she selects names she likes.

Martin and her colleagues established "The Lisa Libraries" in 1990 to honor and remember Lisa Novak, their friend. This non-profit group sells new books to children and establishes libraries in underserved areas. Martin also founded the Ann M. Martin Foundation in the same year, which provides financial assistance for art, education, and literacy services in addition to programs for homeless and stray animals.

Martin served as a producer on the Netflix version of The Baby-Sitters Club in 2020.

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