Wendy Mass, a young adult novelist. Her book, A Mango Shaped-Space, was her most succesful book that won the American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School. She has written many books, such as A Mango Shaped-Space, Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life, 11 Birthdays, Finally, 13 Gifts, The Last Present, Graceful, Twice Upon A Time series, Leap Day, Every Soul A Star, Heaven Looks A Lot Like The Mall, The Candymakers, Pi In The Sky, and the Space Taxi series. Her hobbies are collecting candy bar wrappers and using her metal detector to look for burried treasure, but she claims that they're hiking and taking pictures. She was born is Livingston, New Jersey, and lives there now with her husband, Mike, and her twin kids, Griffin and Chloe.