Other than this she has won 11 more state book awards including Michigan State award and Great Lakes Book Award. She has bagged prominent awards like New York Public and New York Public Library Best Books for the teenage designation. In her last six years of career as a writer, she has written seventeen educational books and all of them have become very successful with several of them also winning prestigious awards. She lives there with her husband, twins and two cats. Now, Mass has again moved back to her hometown Sparta, New Jersey from where she writes and also works as a book editor. She also pursued Master’s Degree in creative writing from California State, Long Beach and also a Doctor of Letters degree from Drew University. She finally realized what she wanted the most and started writing books for pre-teens, teens, and adults. After majoring in English at the Tufts University, she moved to Los Angeles and tried her hands on several writing jobs as an editor, literary agent and script reader and so on. Although her former dream was to become an astronaut, her unending love for writing eventually shaped her career as a well-established author.Īpart from reading books and working in the library, she also took writing classes for sharpening her writing skills to make sure she left no stone unturned in her career as a writer.

She wrote several books in her school time along with her siblings and contested for various awards as well. She had started to develop her writing skills as a child only when she used to read a maximum number of books for winning over her friends. She also used to work at town libraries in her young age and helped her friends with college applications. From her very school life, Mass was enchanted with reading and writing and spent most of her time doing the same. Wendy Mass was born on April 22, 1967, in Livingston, New Jersey. Her work is a true inspiration for the aspiring writers as well who would want to gain same heights in this field in future. Mass has earned huge success as an author who has efficiently explored new dimensions of the writing world. Jeremy-Fink and the Meaning of Life is a great book that got a starred review in Publishers Weekly Magazine. The Twice-Upon a Time fairy-tale series (Leap Day )and Jeremy-Fink and the Meaning of Life are other amazing books penned by Wendy Mass which have all been received with warmth and love.

Mass saw massive success with her book A Mango-Shaped Space that also won her Schneider Family-Book Award by American Library Association for Middle School in 2004. She mostly writes young-adult novels and children’s books. All of these eighteen books gained worldwide recognition and have-been translated into 20 languages to meet the needs of readers from across the globe. Wendy Mass is the New York Times (NYT) best-selling author of eighteen-novels which have been nominated for 76 state book awards as of now.

Beauty and the beast by wendy mass