After Martin wrote the first 35 novels in The Baby-Sitters Club series, Scholastic hired ghostwriters to continue the series. She began writing The Baby-Sitters Club series in 1985 while working for Scholastic as a children's book editor. In 1983, Martin published her first book, Bummer Summer, which earned the Children's Choice Award in 1985. She worked her way up from an editorial assistant to a senior editor, and she worked for several well-known children's book publishers, including Pocket Books and Scholastic.
Īfter teaching for a year, Martin decided to pursue publishing. Martin has said that her work with special needs children influenced her writing. Her students, ages 8–13, struggled with learning disabilities including dyslexia and autism. Career Īfter graduating from Smith College, Martin taught in a split fourth and fifth-grade classroom at Plumfield School in Noroton, Connecticut. Describing her Smith education, Martin said “it was an environment of strong, independent women, both the students and the professors.” Her time at Smith influenced her identity as a feminist and inspired her to portray female characters who were like the women she knew in her own life. She lived in Gardiner House and wrote for Smith College newspaper, The Sophian. Her senior thesis was on the use of children's literature in the classroom. She studied early-childhood education and child psychology. Īfter graduating from Princeton High School in 1973, Martin attended Smith College from 1973 to 1977. She wanted to help children with disabilities, so she worked during the summer at the Eden Institute, a school for autistic children in her hometown. Īs a teen, Martin loved working with children and decided to become a teacher. Her favorite subjects in middle school and high school were English and French, and her least favorite was math.
She began writing short stories, and her fourth-grade teacher wrote on her student folder that she would make a wonderful writer because she spent so much of her free time writing in notebooks. Martin loved creative writing in elementary school and discovered her passion for writing in second grade. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. Before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Martin developed an interest in writing from an early age. Her mother's ancestry can be traced back to the pilgrims who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620. Her mother, Eden Martin, was a preschool teacher and her father, Henry Martin, was a cartoonist for The New Yorker and other publications. Newbery Honor (a Newbery Medal runner-up)Īnn Matthews Martin (born August 12, 1955) is an American children's fiction writer, known best for The Baby-Sitters Club series.Īnn Matthews Martin grew up in Princeton, NJ.
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