"I can't just get up and write in my pajamas. I have to make my bed, get the apartment in shape and feed Mouse [her tabby cat] before I start."2 Her afternoons are spent editing manuscripts and reading fan mail, of which she receives as many as 12,000 letters a year. During quiet evenings, the author is fond of reading and sewing clothes for the children of friends.
"I modeled Mary Anne of 'The Baby-sitters Club' after my character--very shy and not always able to speak her mind. Since the series has become more successful, however, I think I've changed."1 The club leader, Kristy, was modeled after Martin's childhood friend, Beth Perkins. According to Perkins, "There is a lot of Ann in her books.... She really cares about the words she writes and who she writes them for. She listens to kids and understands their sensitivity, like how it feels to wear the wrong-colored sneakers or be snubbed in the lunch line."2
Martin was born in Princeton, New Jersey on August 12, 1955. "I grew up in a very imaginative family. My mother was a preschool teacher and my father, an artist.
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