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I read Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson was born on October 23, 1961 in New York. Laurie's full name is Laurie Beth Halse. As a child she started to enjoy writing. In second grade teacher captured her intrest by teaching her a haiku lesson. Laurie imagined she would become a doctor when she was older, Laurie did not want to be a writer at the time. Laurie started working at the clothing store, for minimum wage. While working at the clothing store she realized that she wanted to go to college. She went to a Community College for 2 years. In college she worked at a dairy farm, milking cows. The experience of living on a pig farm made Laurie want to be a vegetarian. After Laurie transferred to Georgetown University, in 1981 and graduated from the University in 1984. She married Greg Anderson1985 and had a child named Stephanie Holcomb. Laurie had loved writing, but had never considered writing way more than a hobby. Laurie's writing eventually came to Laurie that people would pay her to write, so Laurie became a freelance reporter. Laurie also began to write all types of books. Laurie joined the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators. In 1996, Laurie's first book came out called "Ndito Runs". Later Laurie also wrote "Turkey Pox", and "No Time For Mother's Day". Laurie also started writing no-fiction jut for extra cash. But Laurie was still trying hard to finish won of the greatest books she's wrote yet called Fever 1793, however Laurie was about to name the book Bitter Drops. However Laurie was so stuck on the the book Fever trying to finish and everything that Laurie just stopped writing Fever for a few months and moved on to another book she was writing called Speak. Witch turned out great in the end because Speak wown a award after award, Speak was a National Book Award Finalist, A Pritz Honor book. One of New York Times best seller! After that Laurie finally finished Fever 1793, Fever got published in 2000. Thats also when Laurie started to wright the series of books called Wild at Heart. What was originally published by American Girl. In 2001 Laurie published another book called Big Cheese on Third Street. Later in 2005 Laurie published a book called Prom, what also got to be a New York Times best seller. And in 2008 Laurie published a book called Chains what talked about the American Revolution, its about a slave girl trapped in New York City in 1776. Sadly Greg and Laurie got divorced,but just are friends now. So after Laurie daughters graduated high school, Laurie moved to Central New York to marry her sweat heart, named Scot that she met at only three years old. These days Laurie is happily with her husband Scot.