Anne Mazer is the American author of forty-five books, including '' The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes'' series encompassing twenty two books, ''The Salamander Room'', and The ''No-Nothings and Their Baby''. Mazer was born in 1953 in

Schenectady, New York Schenectady () is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2020 census, the city's population of 67,047 made it the state's ninth-largest city by population. The city is in eastern New Y ...

. As the daughter of novelists

Harry Mazer Harry Mazer (May 31, 1925 in New York City – April 7, 2016 in Montpelier, Vermont) was an American writer of books for children and young adults, acclaimed for his "realistic" novels. He has written twenty-two novels, including ''The Solid Go ...

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Norma Fox Mazer Norma Fox Mazer (May 15, 1931 – October 17, 2009) was an American author and teacher, best known for her books for children and young adults. Her novels featured credible young characters confronting difficult situations such as family separati ...

, Mazer loved books and said that she would often sneak out of high school to go to the public library. After high school, she went on to study art, at Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts. She also studied French language and literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she lived for three years. It was in Paris that Mazer began writing, but she didn't consider the picture book form until after the first of her two children was born. ''Watch Me'', her first published work, became one of a number of critically acclaimed picture books; ''Moose Street'', published two years later, was the first of Mazer's young adult novels. ''The Salamander Room'' was a 1993 ABC Children's Choice book and a

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Feature selection. Among her seven novels, ''Moose Street'' was a Booklist Editor's Choice for Best Book of 1992, and ''The Oxboy'' was a Notable 1993 Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies and an ALA Notable Book. Mazer's short stories have been included in anthologies, and she has edited four anthologies for teenage readers, several of which have been named New York Public Library Best Books for Teens.
In 2010 she co-authored (with Ellen Potter) ''Spilling Ink: A Handbook for Young Writers'', and was artist in residence at Colgate University.

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