Matthew Tobin Anderson

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Matthew Tobin Anderson (M. T. Anderson), (1968- ) is an author, primarily of picture books for children and novels for young adults. Anderson lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

His picture books include Handel Who Knew What He Liked, Strange Mr. Satie, The Serpent Came to Gloucester, and Me, All Alone, at the End of the World. He has written such young adult books as Thirsty, Burger Wuss, Feed, The Game of Sunken Places and Octavian Nothing. For middle grader readers, his novels include Whales on Stilts : M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales and its sequel, The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen.

Born in Stow, Massachusetts, Anderson attended Harvard, University of Cambridge, and Syracuse. He worked at Candlewick Press [1] before Thirsty was accepted for publication. Anderson is a former instructor at Vermont College in Montpelier, Vermont and former music critic at The Improper Bostonian.

Anderson is also a board member of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance [[2]] a national not-for-profit that actively advocates for literacy, literature, and libraries.

1 Major awards
2 Works
- 2.1 Novels
3 External links
- 3.1 Interviews

[edit] Major awards

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party [3] was named a 2007 Michael L. Printz Honor book [4] for literary excellence in young adult literature given by the Young Adult Library Services Association [5].

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party [6] was the winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Young People [7].

Feed was a 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, a 2003 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, and a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award.

Handel Who Knew What He Liked was a 2002 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book.

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

Thirsty (1997)
Burger Wuss
Feed
The Game of Sunken Places
Whales on Stilts
The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party

Anderson's short fiction has appeared in several collections:

"The Mud and Fever Dialogues", Sixteen: Stories About That Sweet and Bitter Birthday, edited by Megan McCafferty. (Three Rivers Press, 2004).

"Watch and Wake", Gothic: Ten Original Dark Tales, edited by Deborah Noyes. (Candlewick, 2004).

"My Maturity, In Flames", Guys Write for Guys Read, edited by Jon Scieszka. (Viking, 2005).

"Barcarole for Paper and Bones", Shelf Life: Stories by the Book, edited by Gary Paulsen. (Simon & Schuster, 2003).

"A Brief Guide to the Ghosts of Great Britain" (memoir), Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Faraway Places, edited by Jill Davis. (Viking, 2003). Reprinted in the September/October 2005 issue of the young adult literature magazine Cicada.