Mary E. Pearson

Mary E. Pearson was born in southern California on August 14, 1955. She received a BFA in Art from Long Beach State University and a teaching degree from San Diego State University. After teaching for many years, she became a published author and began writing full time. From 1999 to 2008 she published five picture books for young children with Children’s Press, an imprint of Scholastic. Her first chapter book, David v. God, was published in 2000. Her young-adult science fiction novel The Adoration of Jenna Fox (2008) has won a number of awards, including a Golden Kite Honor Award; it was also named a 2009 ALA Best Book for Young Adults. It was followed by two sequels, The Fox Inheritance (2011) and Fox Forever (2013). After writing five more young-adult novels, Pearson published her first novel for adults, The Courting of Bristol Keats, in 2024. She lives with her husband in San Diego and has two daughters.