M. T. Anderson

Matthew Tobin Anderson was born and raised in Massachusetts, and later attended Harvard University and Cambridge University (in the UK). He published his first novel, Thirsty, a young adult vampire tale, in 1997. Since then, Anderson has written a string of critically acclaimed books for young people, including Feed (2002), The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Pox Party (2006) and its sequel, The Kingdom on the Waves (2008), and Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (2015). He resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was born, and serves on the board of the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance.