Anne Mazer
Author of The Salamander Room
About the Author
Anne Mazer was born in New York in 1953 to novelists, Harry Mazer and Norma Fox Mazer. She began reading at an early age and knew the trials and frustrations of being a writer. Instead of following in the family business, she went to college and concentrated on art as well as French, moving around show more to several colleges and living in New York, Boston and France. After the birth of her first child, Mazer began writing picture books and found her craft. She has since written over 35 books for children ranging from picture books to novels for young adults. Her titles include: All that Glitters Isn't Gold, A Childhood Remembered, and Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Anne Mazer
The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes (#01-03), Vol 1: Every cloud has a silver lining | The Declaration of Independence |… (2000) 53 copies
The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes (#04-06), Vol 2: Have Wheels, Will Travel | Look Before You Leap! | The Pen Is Mightier… (2005) 15 copies
Walt Disney Pictures Presents a Kid in King Arthur's Court: A Novel (Junior Novelization) (1995) 11 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1953
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Schenectady, New York, USA
- Education
- Syracuse University
Sorbonne - Occupations
- children's book author
young adult writer
short story writer
editor - Relationships
- Mazer, Norma Fox (mother)
Mazer, Harry (father) - Organizations
- Colgate University
- Short biography
- Anne Mazer is the oldest of four children of the novelists Norma Fox Mazer and Harry Mazer. She had a childhood full of books and said that she loved reading so much she would often sneak out of high school to go to the library. After high school, she went on to study art at Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts. She also studied French language and literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she lived for three years. Her first published work, Watch Me, was a critically acclaimed picture book for children. Moose Street, published two years later, was a Booklist Editor's Choice for Best Book of 1992. Among her numerous other books, The Salamander Room (1994) is considered a classic, though Anne Mazer is probably best known as the author of The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes series. Her short stories have been included in anthologies, and she herself has edited four anthologies for teenage readers, several of which have been named New York Public Library Best Books for Teens. In 2010, she co-authored with Ellen Potter the book Spilling Ink: A Handbook for Young Writers. She is an artist-in-residence at Colgate University.
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