![]() I’ve always loved flight, so writing about air racing made me think about the history of flight through man’s love of competition. Some of the articles I wrote as a freelancer required heavy research, and through that, the subject matter drew me to write about it deeper. ![]() How did you make the move from writing articles to writing books? And what was it like when your very first book came out? Though your big splash was Crank, you actually published over 20 nonfiction books for children before your first novel in verse (and YA bestseller) came out, and before that you were a freelance journalist. She is also currently raising three grandchildren under twelve, but was kind enough to make time for this interview over email. Verse novels and “difficult” subjects have become her trademark over the past fifteen years since Crank, she has published twelve more YA novels in verse, tackling topics from suicide to sex trafficking to eating disorders, and three adult novels, two of which are also in verse.Įllen lives on 1.25 acres of Nevada hills overlooking Washoe Lake, on her website, and-for about a hundred days each year-on the road. Ellen Hopkins is a life-long writer who exploded onto the New York Times’ bestseller list in 2004 with Crank, a novel written in free verse that was loosely based on her daughter’s real struggles with “the monster”-crystal meth. ![]()
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