Ellen studied at Santa Ynez Valley Union High School. Crafton Hills College and University of California in Santa Barbara.
College/University
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Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States
Ellen Hopkins attended the University of California in Santa Barbara.
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11711 Sand Canyon Rd, Yucaipa, CA 92399, United States
Ellen studied at Crafton Hills College.
Career
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901 Morton Ave, Folsom, PA 19033, United States
Ellen Hopkins with the student of Ridley High School
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Left to right: Ventana Sierra chief executive Kelley Foutz with resident
Alyssa Rowley, author Ellen Hopkins, who is Foutz’s mother, and resident Pamela Rhine.
Left to right: Ventana Sierra chief executive Kelley Foutz with resident
Alyssa Rowley, author Ellen Hopkins, who is Foutz’s mother, and resident Pamela Rhine.
(Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted hig...)
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place.
(In this riveting and masterful novel told in verse, Ellen...)
In this riveting and masterful novel told in verse, Ellen Hopkins takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride. From the highs of true love to the lows of abuse, Pattyn's story will have readers engrossed until the very last word.
(Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As...)
Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family - on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that's where their differences begin.
(Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three...)
Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching…for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don’t expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words “I love you” are said for all the wrong reasons.
(Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow’s five ...)
Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow’s five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.
(Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they...)
Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there.
(Three teens, three stories—all interconnected through the...)
Three teens, three stories—all interconnected through their parents’ family relationships. As the adults pull away, caught up in their own dilemmas, the worlds of the teens begin to tilt.
(Meet Ashley, a graduate student at San Diego State Univer...)
Meet Ashley, a graduate student at San Diego State University. She was raised in northern California reading poetry and singing backupin her best friend’s band. The last thing she ever expected was to end up a military wife. But one night, she meets a handsome Marine named Cole. He doesn’t match the stereotype of the aggressive military man she’d always presumed to be true; he’s passionate and romantic, and he even writes poetry.
(Bestselling author Ellen Hopkins continues the riveting s...)
Bestselling author Ellen Hopkins continues the riveting story of Pattyn Von Stratten she began in Burned to explore what it takes to rise from the ashes, put ghosts to rest, and step into a future.
(The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collateral “i...)
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collateral “is at her best in this outstanding novel written in gorgeous prose…a sex-filled masterpiece of mystery and romance” (Library Journal) about a woman caught in a love affair that could be her salvation - or her undoing.
(In her bestselling novel, Tricks, Ellen Hopkins introduce...)
In her bestselling novel, Tricks, Ellen Hopkins introduced us to five memorable characters. And now, in Traffick, these five are faced with the toughest question of all: Is there a way out?
(In bestselling author Ellen Hopkins’s deft hands, Ariel’s...)
In bestselling author Ellen Hopkins’s deft hands, Ariel’s emotionally charged journey to find out the truth of who she really is balances beautifully with Maya’s story of loss and redemption. This is a memorable portrait of two young women trying to make sense of their lives and coming face to face with themselves—for both the last and the very first time.
(A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse, ...)
A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse, bought by a teenager for needed protection. But which was it? Each has the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of a white supremacist youth organization? Daniel, who fears retaliation because of his race, who possessively clings to Grace, the love of his life? Or Noelle, who lost everything after a devastating accident, and has sunk quietly into depression?
(In this gripping follow-up to Love Lies Beneath, #1 New Y...)
In this gripping follow-up to Love Lies Beneath, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins’s “fabulous, sex-filled masterpiece of mystery and romance”, beautiful, wealthy Tara Lattimore's story continues when her sinful past threatens to derail her current marriage - and her sanity.
Ellen Hopkins is an American novelist. She is the author of a number of nonfiction titles and young adult novels-in-verse, as well as novels for adults.
Background
Ellen Louise Hopkins was born on March 26, 1955, in Long Beach, California. Ellen was adopted at birth and raised by Albert and Valeria (Whitney) Wagner, a great, loving older couple, in Palm Springs California. After her adoptive parents died, she found her birth mother and her half-sister.
Her father was not a rich man initially but eventually earned himself a fortune working in the steel industry. Her parents played an inspirational role in her life. She learned the virtue of hard work and honesty from her father, while her mother stimulated love of language in her. Her birth mother, Toni Chandler, was also a prolific poetry writer.
Education
Ellen received her education from a private school when she moved to Santa Ynez Valley. In 1973, she earned her graduation from Santa Ynez Valley Union High School. After she left school, she set out to pursue journalism and enrolled herself in Crafton Hills College and the University of California in Santa Barbara, but dropped out of college in order to get married.
Hopkins began writing as soon as she learned its art. Her earlier works included poetry mostly but it was not until 1992 that she started writing professionally. Encouraged by her teachers, she used to participate in every creative writing contest and won all of them. At the young age of nine, she published a Japanese styled poem titled Haiku in the Palm Springs Desert Sun.
A twist of fate changed her career plan as she dropped out of college in order to get married and start a business. After the divorce with her first husband, Ellen had to sell her video store business later. She met her second husband and, as she moved to northern Nevada, in 1990, she took up her passion for writing. She did her stint of freelance writing for newspapers and magazines before she shifted her interest toward children’s nonfiction. She produced about twenty titles in the respective genre which include Orcas: High Seas Supermen and Air Devils. Eventually, she had her first novels published after struggling for a while as a writer.
Hopkins’ debut novel, entitled Crank, was published in 2004. She published the sequel, Glass, in 2007 and the third installment, Fallout, followed three years later. Another two-novel based young adult series, Burned (2006), was written in the free verse format. Ellen Hopkins' book Perfect was released in 2011, and is a companion novel to Impulse (2007). Her book Tilt appeared the next year.
Besides young adult novels, Ellen Hopkins also penned novels for her adult audience which include Triangles (2011), Collateral (2012) and Love Lies Beneath (July 2015).
Ellen Hopkins is a celebrated name among Young Adult novel writers. She has published several New York Times bestselling novels. Her key works include Crank, Identical and Burned.
In 2006, Hopkins was recognized with a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. She was inducted as a full member into the Hall of Fame in 2015.
In her novels, Hopkins discusses delicate teenage issues such as, psychological problems, prostitution, drug addiction and other such issues that trouble the young generation of today.
Quotations:
"Like most of you here, books are my life. Reading is a passion, but writing is the biggest part of me."
"Balance is my greatest challenge, as I love my family, friends, animals and home, but also love traveling to meet my readers."
Membership
Ellen was a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Reno MOMS, Holy Cross Lutheran church choir, Blue Tahoe Schutzhund Club, and New Writers of the Purple Sage.
Personality
Being around a voracious reader, Ellen developed a keen interest in literature and started reading sophisticated writings at a considerably young age.
Interests
gardening, camping, fishing, sports
Sport & Clubs
hiking, biking, skiing
Connections
Ellen was married to Jerry Vancelette, but they divorced, and, on October 19, 1991, Ellen married John Hopkins, a TV news assignment editor. Ellen has three children - Jaysen Vancelette, Cristal Thetford and Kelly Foutz.
