Vassar
June 07, 2009
Just came back from my college reunion. I went to Vassar.
Back in 2006, I wrote this post. It details all the YA writers I knew about then who went there for school. Eight people, including me.
Which is quite a lot!
Then today, on twitter, I promised a ARC of the upcoming THE TREASURE MAP OF BOYS to the first person who could name four YA writers who'd gone there.
I got a ton of responses!
Here is the list I have compiled.
By the way: I haven't vetted it!! In other words, this is the kind of thing that will get you in trouble if you cite it because all kinds of random misinformation is posted on the internet and this is probably just exactly that!!
But this is what people said, and I did check Jane Smiley and Curtis Sittenfeld, because I was curious.
Some of them are not precisely YA writers but their work appeals to young readers. (Smiley has a YA book coming out next year, in case you think she's a mistake).
The first eight are my original list.
1. me
2. Scott Westerfeld
3 Cassandra Clare
4. Lisa Papademetriou
5. Dana Reinhardt
6. Carolyn Mackler
7. Mariah Fredericks
8. Aimee Friedman
9. Melissa Walker
10. Megan Crane
11. Curtis Sittenfeld
12. Nancy Means Wright
13. Amy Kwei
14. Janet McDonald
15. Indira Genesan
16. Jeff Carney
17. Ester Friesner
18. Victoria Strauss
19. Elizabeth Williams Champney
20. Jean Webster
21. Meghan Daum
22. Katherine Center
23. Jane Smiley
And if we're counting Meghan Daum and Curtis Sittenfeld, I think we might add
24. Thomas Beller
Strange, eh?
If you know of others -- put it in the comments!