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Hopkins was adopted by Albert and Valeria Wagner when they were 72 and 42, respectively. Later in life, she found her biological mother, Toni Chandler, who was a writer and poet. She believes most of her writing talent originates from her. <ref>http://www.ellenhopkins.com/Bio.html</ref> She wrote her first poem, and published in the Palm Springs Desert Sun, when she was nine. She attended high school in [[Santa Ynez Valley]] and went on to study [[journalism]] at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] before dropping out, to start a family and a business. When that marriage failed, |
Hopkins was adopted by Albert and Valeria Wagner when they were 72 and 42, respectively. Later in life, she found her biological mother, Toni Chandler, who was a writer and poet. She believes most of her writing talent originates from her. <ref>http://www.ellenhopkins.com/Bio.html</ref> She wrote her first poem, and published in the Palm Springs Desert Sun, when she was nine. She attended high school in [[Santa Ynez Valley]] and went on to study [[journalism]] at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] before dropping out, to start a family and a business. When that marriage failed, he sold her business and began freelance work. She then married her current husband, John Hopkins and they had three children Cristal, Kelly and Jason. They also adopted another child, john;s son, named Onion. |
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==Career== |
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Ellen Louise Hopkins | |
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| Occupation | Novelist, Poet |
| Genre | Young adult |
| Spouse | John Hopkins |
| Website | |
| http://www.ellenhopkins.com | |
Ellen Hopkins (born March 26, 1955) is an American novelist currently residing in Washoe Valley, Nevada. She has published several New York Times bestseller books that are extremely popular mainly amongst a teenage and young adult audience. [1]
Biography
Hopkins was adopted by Albert and Valeria Wagner when they were 72 and 42, respectively. Later in life, she found her biological mother, Toni Chandler, who was a writer and poet. She believes most of her writing talent originates from her. [2] She wrote her first poem, and published in the Palm Springs Desert Sun, when she was nine. She attended high school in Santa Ynez Valley and went on to study journalism at the University of California, Santa Barbara before dropping out, to start a family and a business. When that marriage failed, he sold her business and began freelance work. She then married her current husband, John Hopkins and they had three children Cristal, Kelly and Jason. They also adopted another child, john;s son, named Onion.
Career
Hopkins began her writing career with a number of nonfiction books for children, including Air Devils and Orcas: High Seas Supermen. She has written 20 such nonfiction books.[3]
Hopkins had a daughter with a lot of potential before her addiction to crystal meth, or "crank." In 2002, her struggle inspired Hopkins to begin writing her debut novel, Crank, which was meant to express the horrible influences of drug abuse and addiction.
She has published several verse novels on teenage struggles, including Crank, Burned, Impulse, Identical, Glass, and Tricks. Glass is the sequel to Crank. Identical came out on August 26, 2008, and Tricks, about teen prostitution, on August 25, 2009. Hopkins has also announced that she is working on a third Crank novel, titled Fallout, due out in August of 2010. Another book due out in 2011 will be called Perfect.
She loves her home state and her adoptive parents, and though she says she has met her birth parents before, she'll always love the ones who raised her. She also considers her fifth grade teacher to be the first person to encourage her to become a professional writer.[4]
Bibliography
The Crank series
Other novels
- Burned (April 2006)
- Impulse (August 2007)
- Identical (August 26, 2008)
- Tricks (August 25, 2009)
- Perfect (2011)
Contributor
- Flirtin' With The Monster (May 2009), editor
References
External links
- Official Website
- Ellen Hopkins' Facebook
- Ellen Hopkins: Ellen Hopkins' Livejournal
- Myspace Page
- Ellen Hopkins' Twitter Stream
- Publisher's Weekly interview
- Interview at Powells.com
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