M. T. Anderson (1) (1968–)
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M. T. Anderson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 4, 1968. He was educated in English literature at Harvard University and Cambridge University, and received his MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. He primarily writes picture books for children and novels for young visa mer adults. 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. His young adult books include Thirsty, Burger Wuss, and Feed, which won the L.A. Times Book Award for YA fiction in 2003. He also writes the series A Pals in Peril Tale, and The Norumbegan Quartet. Anderson Won the 2006 National Book Award in Young People's Literature for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party. His title Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad, was a finalist for the 2016 YALSA-ALA Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av M. T. Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party (2006) 2,954 exemplar
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (2008) 841 exemplar
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (2015) 643 exemplar
Watch and Wake [short story] 2 exemplar
M.T. Anderson reads from "The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing" at the Central Library 1 exemplar
The Gray Boy's Work 1 exemplar
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Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 687 exemplar
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 223 exemplar
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 168 exemplar
No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories about Growing Up and Getting a Life (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 70 exemplar
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- Andra namn
- Anderson, Matthew Tobin (birth name)
- Födelsedag
- 1968-11-04
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Stow, Massachusetts, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Utbildning
- Harvard University
University of Cambridge
Syracuse University - Yrken
- teacher
university instructor
music critic
children's book author - Organisationer
- National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Margaret A. Edwards Award (2019)
- Kort biografi
- Matthew Tobin Anderson (b. 1968), American author of children's picture books and young adult literature Winner of the 2006 National Book Award for young people's literature for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party
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Five star books (2)
Best Dystopias (1)
Absolute Power (1)
Epistolary Books (1)
Gateway Horror (1)
Boy Protagonists (1)
Same Title (1)
Great Audiobooks (1)
Best Young Adult (3)
Graphic Novels (1)
Bullies (1)
King Arthur (1)
Priser
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (Honor – Facklitteratur – 2016)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (Honor – Fiction & Poetry – 2009)
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- 33
- Även av
- 21
- Medlemmar
- 14,528
- Popularitet
- #1,582
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 933
- ISBN
- 306
- Språk
- 6
- Favoritmärkt
- 4
This takes in Shostakovich's whole life, but mostly focuses on the siege of Leningrad, when the Nazi army cut the city off from any supply lines; it chronicles Shostakovich's life up until that point but also provides a lot of historical information about the history of the Soviet Union for context. Even though it's for a YA audience, I found it totally successful for an adult audience, and even ended up recommending it to my father, a WWII buff but definitely not a YA reader, who enjoyed it so much that a couple months later he was citing facts he learned from it back to me, having forgotten I was the one who recommended it to him to begin with. Anderson even does some original research here; poking around on Google Scholar, it seems that academics are citing his work in peer-reviewed journals already.
The book is pretty horrifying. WWII-era Soviet Russia was a pretty awful place to live even before the Nazis showed up. Anderson does a great job exploring the intersection of politics and art, how art is shaped by politics and works to defy it. Anderson writes about music beautifully (no easy feat!) and really gets us into the head of Shostakovich in particular and the world of Russia in general; I learned a lot about Stalin from this, actually. Overall, excellent work, and a good example of why M. T. Anderson is one of my favorite authors full stop, not just one of my favorite YA authors.… (mer)