1. Allyson Braithwaite Condie was born on November 2,1978 and is an author of young adult and middle grade fiction.
18 Facts About Ally Condie
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Ally Condie is the founder and director of the WriteOut Foundation, a non-profit 501 foundation that runs writing camps for rural teens.
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Ally Condie is a member of the Yallwest Board, which is a non-profit California-based organization aimed at making books accessible to local children.
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Ally Condie is on the board of Go Jane Give, a non-profit Utah-based organization that organizes donations to refugees.
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Once she could write, Ally Condie kept a regular journal, as well as a poetry journal.
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Ally Condie did not have much time for creative writing in high school, college, or her years as a high school English teacher.
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In high school, Ally Condie ran cross country and track, and has maintained a love for distance running even today.
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Ally Condie wanted to become the kind of author she would have felt comfortable recommending her students read.
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Ally Condie attended Brigham Young University and has an undergraduate degree in English Teaching.
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Ally Condie taught high school English in Utah and in upstate New York.
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Ally Condie began publishing YA literature with Deseret Book Company, a small, Utah-based publisher.
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Ally Condie published her first book in 2006, Yearbook, which was followed by the remaining two books in the Yearbook trilogy: First Day and Reunion.
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Also in 2017, Ally Condie graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts with a Master's in Fine Arts Degree.
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Ally Condie returned to her maiden name, Braithwaite, and struggled at first emotionally with the fact that her novels will continue to be published under the name of her Ex-Husband.
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Ally Condie married her second husband, David, in August 2023.
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Ally Condie is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Ally Condie took the manuscript for Matched to Penguin Random House, after being advised so from her director at Deseret Book, where it reached an international audience.
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At least one new novel from Ally Condie is planned, an untitled YA novel.