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Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares

Ann Brashares (born 1967[1]) is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series of books. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1082x1280, 1073 KB) Ann Brashares by David Shankbone, September 2006, Brooklyn, New York. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1082x1280, 1073 KB) Ann Brashares by David Shankbone, September 2006, Brooklyn, New York. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a novel written in 2001 by Ann Brashares. ...


Brashares was born in Virginia and grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland the neighboring city of Bethesda. As a child she attended Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C.. After studying philosophy at Barnard College, she worked as an editor, though she had originally intended to pursue a graduate degree. After several successful years working in book publishing, first for 17th Street Productions and then for Alloy Entertainment, she made the transition to writing original fiction. Her first novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, was published in 2001, and became a bestseller worldwide. Currently three other titles have been published in the series with the fourth, Forever in Blue, released in January 2007. The first book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, was adapted into a motion picture in 2005. Brashares has recently written a novel for adult readers, The Last Summer (of You and Me), released in 2007. She lives in New York with her husband, the artist Jacob Collins, has three children, Nathaniel, Samuel, and Susannah. This article is about the U.S. state. ... Chevy Chase is the name of both a town and an unincorporated Census-Designated Place in Montgomery County, Maryland (see Chevy Chase (CDP), Maryland). ... Bethesda, the name of a pool in the New Testament, has been adopted as a name by many other places and things. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Barnard College, founded in 1889, is one of the four undergraduate divisions of Columbia University. ... The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a novel written in 2001 by Ann Brashares. ... This article is about the state. ...

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Non-Fiction

  • Linus Torvalds, Software Rebel, (2001).
  • Steve Jobs Thinks Different (2001)

Fiction

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. ... The Second Summer of the Sisterhood is a novel written in 2003 by acclaimed author Ann Brashares. ... The Last Summer (of You and Me) is a novel by Ann Brashares. ...

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