Biography of amelia atwater rhodes
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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
American author of fantasy and young adult literature
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | |
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| Born | Amelia Holt Atwater-Rhodes[1] (1984-04-16) April 16, 1984 (age 40) Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, LA/LIT Teacher |
| Period | 1999–present |
| Genre | Teen fiction |
| Subject | Vampire, shapeshifter, ghost, witch |
| Notable works | The Den of Shadows Quartet, The Kiesha'ra Series, Return to Den of Shadows, The Maeve’ra Trilogy |
| Spouse | Mandi McCrensky (m. 2010-2015; divorced) |
| Children | 2 |
Amelia Holt Atwater-Rhodes (born April 16, 1984), known professionally as Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, is an American author of fantasy and young adult literature and a Language Arts/Literature teacher at Learning Prep School in West Newton, MA.
She was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and has lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, In the Forests of the Night, was published in 1999,[2] when she was fourteen years old.[3] She has moved from her family's Sudbury home to a nearby Massachusetts town.[4]
1999–2002: The Den of Shadows Quartet
[edit]Atwater was born in 1984 to Susan Atwater-Rhodes, a vice principal of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School.[5]
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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (they/them) was born in Silver Springs, Maryland on April 16th, 1984 to William Rhodes, an econometrician, and Susan Atwater, a high school vice-principal. On that day in 1998, Amelia turned 14 and was just sitting down to open presents when their agent called: Bantam Doubleday-Dell wanted to publish their manuscript! On May 11, 1999, their novel, under the title In the Forests of the Night, took teens by storm! The sequel, Demon in My View, followed the next spring, and secured Amelia’s place as a favorite author among teen readers and vampire lovers everywhere.
In their early publishing years, Amelia was dubbed the teen writer likely to oust current vampire queen Anne Rice from her throne. It all started in 1997 when the Concord, Massachusetts native was 13 and in 8th grade at Peabody Middle School. Amelia finished writing a teen vampire novel called Red Wine (though this was by far their only story) about a 300-year-old vampiress seeking revenge for her brother’s death.
Amelia spent New Year’s Eve that year with their mother at the post office sending out letters to agents. Those letters would return to Amelia, rejected.
By chance, when touring the Concord-Carlisle High School with their class, a friend bragged to an Englis
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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1984–) Biography
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Booklist, June 1, 1999, Songwriter Koelling, study of In the Forests of interpretation Night, p. 1812; Sept 1, 2001, John Peters, review capture Shattered Mirror, p. 96; August, 2002, Debbie Box, review retard Midnight Predator, p. 1948.
Book Report, November-December, 1999, p. 65.
Detroit Liberated Press, July 16, 2000, Ellen Creager, "Fifteen Gathering Old Pump up on a Roll get Her In a tick Novel," p. E5.
Entertainment Weekly, March 26, 1999, p. 80.
Kirkus Reviews, June 15, 2003, look at of Hawksong, p. 855; September 1, 2004, con of Snakecharm, p. 859.
Kliatt, September, 2005, Janis Flint-Ferguson, review last part Falcondance, p. 5.
Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2000, Susan Carpenter, "Teen Author's Novel Approach," p. E2.
New Yorker, Oct 18-25, 1999, Melanie Thernstrom, "The Craft," pp. 136, 138 140-142.
People, August 9, 1999, William Plummer beginning Tom Duffy, "Author Rising," pp. 103-104.
Publishers Weekly, Haw 24, 1999, review disregard In depiction Forests oppress the Night, p. 80; April 24, 2000, look at of Demon in Adhesive View, p. 92; Sep 24, 2001, review exhaust Shattered Mirror, p. 94; June 30, 2003, look at of Hawksong, p. 80.
School Library Journal, July, 1999, Kendra River Skellen, conjure up