A.E. Cannon is an award-winning writer of fiction for children and young adults. She is also a newspaper columnist, creative writing teacher and the mother of five sons. Her first young adult novel, Cal Cameron by Day, Spider-Man by Night, won the Delacorte Press Prize for an outstanding first young adult novel. Since then, she has published a number of books, including a collection of her newspaper columns. Subsequent Young Adult novels have been named to the American Library Association's Best Books lists, while her weekly column in the Deseret News has found a wide on-line readership.
Ann credits her life-long passion for books to a childhood illness that put her in bed for a year. "I had strict instructions from our doctor--no walking, no running, no swimming, no biking. With nothing else to do, I was forced to discover books. Before I knew it, books moved into my life permanently, setting up house and lounging around in chairs and on the foot of my bed just like a crowd of favorite cousins. They introduced me to people who had tea parties on the ceiling and others who went down rabbit holes. I eventually got better, but I asked the books to stay anyway. They did."
