M.T. Anderson Biography

Matthew Tobin Anderson won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2006 for The Pox Party volume one of the Octavian Nothing books which are historical novels set in Revolution-era Boston. Anderson is known for using wit and sarcasm in his stories as well as advocating that young adults are capable of mature comprehensionAnderson was born in Cambridge Massachusetts. Anderson attended St. Mark's School then went on to Harvard college the University of Cambridge (England) and Syracuse University. Anderson worked at Candlewick Press before his first novel Thirsty (1997) was accepted for publication there. He has also worked as a disc jockey for WCUW Radio and as an instructor at Vermont College of Fine Arts where he now serves on the Board and as a music critic for The Improper Bostonian. He currently lives in Boston and is on the Board of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance a national non-profit organization that advocates for literacy literature and libraries.Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on M.T. Anderson and other top speakers and celebrities.

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