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Ann M. Martin.

Writer · United States · b. 1955

Ann M. Martin: creator of The Baby-Sitters Club — the 1986 original chapter-book series and its much-beloved 2010s+ graphic-novel adaptations, an emotionally intelligent staple for 8–12-year-olds.

Ann M. Martin is an American author born in 1955, best known as the creator of The Baby-Sitters Club, the chapter-book series that launched in 1986 and ran to over 200 volumes across the original sequence and its various spin-offs. The BSC follows a group of preteen friends in fictional Stoneybrook, Connecticut, running a babysitting business while navigating school, family change, illness, identity and friendship, its emotional intelligence and respect for its young readers are why the series has had a four-decade afterlife. From 2015 onwards, Raina Telgemeier and other artists have adapted the original novels into a hugely successful graphic-novel line, bringing the series to a new generation. Martin also wrote A Corner of the Universe (Newbery Honor) and Rain Reign.