Adrian Fogelin

Background

Adrian Fogelin was born on August 28, 1951, in Pearl River, New York, to Carl Edward Fogelin, a chemical engineer, and Maria Bontempi Fogelin, a writer.

Education

Adrian studied at Princeton High School. Books and writing were not her only childhood interests. Fogelin also loved the arts and acting, and in planning for college she applied to both a theater arts school and a fine arts and design college. Her acceptance at the Rhode Island School of Design was interpreted by Fogelin as a sign she was meant to be an artist. In 1974, Adrian received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design.

Career

Influenced by her mother, Adrian kept diaries, wrote occasional short stories and poems, but chose art as a career. Because fine art was an unreliable field, she worked an astonishing variety of jobs. She spent hours inside animal enclosures as the illustrator for the Baltimore Zoo, ran her own art gallery in the Florida Keys, cleaned condos, managed a public library, taught at a daycare center, and made pottery.

At age thirty-five, Fogelin began to write seriously. Fogelin's first novel, Crossing Jordan, appeared in 2000; she has since reprised some of the characters from that debut in Anna Casey's Place in the World, My Brother's Hero, and The Big Nothing, while Sister Spider Knows All, though also set in Tallahassee, deals with a new cast of characters. Fogelin has also authored The Real Question, The Sorta Sisters, Summer on the Moon and Some Kind of Magic.

Achievements

• Adrian Fogelin is known as the author of nine novels for middle-grade and young adult readers, including the hugely popular "Crossing Jordan," and has won numerous awards including two Florida Book Award gold medals.

Works

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  • Crossing Jordan

    (This moving, coming-of-age story follows a young white gi...)

    1999
  • The Big Nothing

    (This sensitive and often humorous book tells the story of...)

    2004
  • Anna Casey's Place in the World

    (With warmth and humor, Fogelin has created a memorable ch...)

    2001
  • Summer on the Moon

    (It’s summer vacation, and Socko and his best friend Damie...)

    2009
  • The Real Question

    (For Fisher Brown, bearing the responsibility for the well...)

    2006
  • My Brother's Hero

    (This poignant coming-of-age story is set against the verd...)

    2002
  • Sister Spider Knows All

    (A sensitive story of an adolescent girl uncovering her pa...)

    2003
  • Some Kind of Magic

    (Cass, Jemmie, Ben, and Justin have been friends for years...)

    2015
  • The Sorta Sisters

    (Anna Casey likes living in North Florida with biology tea...)

    2007

Views

Quotations: "I admit it, I consider children our best hope for a livable future. In my writing I try to raise the issues that will affect that future, trusting young readers to think them over and do better than we have when they take over from us. But why do it with fiction? Simple. Like my mother, I love a good story."

Membership

Adrian Fogelin is a member of the Wednesday Night Writers.

Personality

Adrian is fond of gardening, birdwatching, butterfly tagging, and environmental activism.

Adrian Fogelin once said that she became an author through her mother. Her mother wrote many novels, published a couple, one of which was serialized in Redbook and translated into half-a-dozen languages. Adrian's mother gleaned material for her stories everywhere: her own childhood, the activities of her children, conversations overheard in the checkout line at the store.

Interests

• gardening, bird-watching, butterfly tagging, environmental activism

Connections

Fogelin married Raymond S. Faass, a cabinetmaker, in August 1978. They have a daughter, Josephine Sandberg.

Father:

Carl Edward Fogelin

Mother:

Maria Bontempi Fogelin

husband:

Raymond S. Faass

Daughter:

Josephine Sandberg Faass

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the worlds most-popular authors.
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