Doing a School Report?

Letter from Ally

Every time I hear from readers who are doing book reports about me or my books, my first response is always “you’re doing a book report about me? Why?” Because it’s so darn flattering and a little surreal.

So it’s hard for me to imagine that it’s actually happening, but I’ve gotten enough emails to know it isn’t a hoax, so in an effort to encourage good reporting I’ll provide some biographical info here.

Note: I will not be providing any information that is common identity theft territory (like place of birth, date of birth, mother’s maiden name, etc) because…well…I’m paranoid like that, and I think those things are only really important if you’re going to go to my hometown and snoop around asking questions about me–in which case I’m REALLY not going to tell you.

But on this portion of the website I’m happy to provide the essentials.

Good luck on your report and thanks for reading!

Detailed Bio

I was born and raised in Oklahoma. My mother was a teacher and her father a farmer and rancher. I have one older sister.

In high school, I was very active in a number of student organizations and graduated as co-valedictorian of my senior class. I then attended Oklahoma State University and Cornell University and worked for several years in the agricultural industry before writing full-time.

My first novel, Cheating at Solitaire (Berkley) was published in 2005. I followed that up with my first novel for young adults, I’d Tell You I Love You but Then I’d Have to Kill You (Disney-Hyperion) in April 2006. In the fall of that year I published the sequel to Solitaire, Learning to Play Gin. There are no more plans for future books in that series at this time.

The Gallagher Girls series has been translated into ____ languages and has appeared on best-seller lists from the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Barnes and Noble, IndieBound, and Bookscan.

I now live in Oklahoma and work as a full-time writer.

Past interviews

I have frequently heard from students who would like to interview me for school reports. Unfortunately, I no longer have time to honor these requests—that’s the bad news.

The good news is that there are several existing interviews—almost all of which ask the same questions that readers ask for school reports, so please look them over. I’m sure they’ll help!

http://www.turn2page1.com/index.php?page=author_zone_feature

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6664336.html?&rid=

http://bookburger.typepad.com/bookburger/ally_carter/

http://misserinmarie.blogspot.com/2008/11/wbbt-interview-ally-carter.html

http://www.teensreadtoo.com/InterviewCarter.html

http://www.popgoesthelibrary.com/2006/05/interview-with-ally-carter.html

http://slayground.livejournal.com/98132.html

http://media.barnesandnoble.com/?fr_story=9d61745084d1cb510dff2c77697feaca156a87ee&rf=sitemap

http://teens.freebookfriday.com/2009/06/dont-judge-girl-by-her-cover-by-ally_06.html

http://teens.freebookfriday.com/2009/01/gallagher-girls-series-by-ally-carter.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrjJiWo9v-o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkAscT5nP_I