Matthew Tobin Anderson — American Author born on November 04, 1968,

Matthew Tobin Anderson, known as M.T. Anderson, is an American writer of children's books that range from picture books to young-adult novels. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2006 for The Pox Party, the first of two "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 comprehension... (wikipedia)

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it's where I keep a collection of ghost books.