M. T. Anderson “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” -Opening of Feed Caroline Goldstein, Frances Tompkins, Khalilah.

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M. T. Anderson “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” -Opening of Feed Caroline Goldstein, Frances Tompkins, Khalilah Ummah

Early Years Full name is Matthew Tobin Anderson, goes by MT Anderson Born in Stow, MA in 1968 Attended St.Marks for high school and Winchester College for a year after that Went to school at Harvard University, Cambridge University, and Syracuse University

Employment History Worked at Candlewick Press Instructor at Vermont College Used to work as a music critic at The Improper Bostonian. Was a fiction editor for a literary review that no longer exists

Life Today Lives in Cambridge, MA Writes picture books for children and novels for young adults Board member of the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance

Strange Mr. Satie For ages 5 and up M.T. Anderson loved Satie's music as a child and wrote the book to "sing back to him all the things he had sung to me" The life story of Erik Satie and the challenges faced to become successful

Handel: Who Knew What He Liked Similar to Strange Mr. Satie, but more historical Anderson loved Handel's music because it seemed to suggest humans are noble creatures, full of reason and gentility. Gave definitions of challenging words at the bottom of pages Handel: Opera composer, musician

Feed Set in the future Technology highly advanced National Book Award Finalist For a mature adolescent audience, due to language and content

Resources - book list with unofficial reviews, summaries, events, and related links review of Feed with recommendations for teachers. like_his_protagonists_hes_a_character_study/?page=1 - Artice about MT Anderson from the Boston Globe. Includes a link to MT Anderson reading Interview from the School Library Journal /lm/R32AAHVKMKJIWY - Feed on Amazon’s 2008 Banned Book list /lm/R32AAHVKMKJIWY _1__ -Article about MT Anderson from the Washington Post - MT Anderson Book-signing at the Harvard Book Store in January!

Awards The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party : 2007 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, 2006 National Book Award Winner Feed : 2002 L.A. Times Book Prize Winner, 2003 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, 2002 National Book Award finalist. Handel Who Knew What He Liked : 2002 Boston Globe- Horn Book Award Honor Book.