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Margaret Peterson Haddix

American author

Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9, 1964) is an American writer known best for the two children's series, Shadow Children (1998–2006) and The Missing (2008–2015). She also wrote the tenth volume in the multiple-author series The 39 Clues.^[1]

Biography

Haddix grew up on a farm about halfway between two small towns: Washington Court House, Ohio, and Sabina, Ohio.^[2] Her family was predominantly farmers and she grew up in a family of voracious readers. Some of her favorite books growing up included E.L. Konigsburg books, Harriet the Spy, Anne of Green Gables, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Anne Frank, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and The Little Princess.

She graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with degrees in English/journalism, English/Creative writing, and History. While in college, Haddix worked a series of jobs. She was an assistant cook at a 4-H camp, but almost every other job has been related to writing. During college, she worked on the school newspaper and had summer intern

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Q & A with Margaret Peterson Haddix

Margaret Peterson Haddix published her first novel for young readers, Running Out of Time, in 1996 and has since published more than 41 books. In her new series, which begins with The Strangers, three siblings—Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone—investigate their mother’s disappearance and learn of an alternate world while cracking codes, solving clues, and uncovering secrets. Haddix spoke with PW about the seed of an idea planted more than 30 years ago, the appeal of writing a cast of siblings, and her transition from journalist to novelist.

From where did the inspiration for this unique series premise come?

Out of all the books and series I’ve ever written, this is definitely the one that had the longest gestation period. The original seed was planted by a newspaper column I read 31 years ago. It was about a weird circumstance: a mother of three small children happened to read about a car accident [that caused] the tragic deaths of three other children. The three children who

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Although she describes her childhood self as having "a short attention span" and despising "anything that reeked of busy work" at school, Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up to be a successful journalist before she found the courage to pursue her dream of writing novels.

Haddix grew up on a farm in Washington Courthouse, Ohio - the same small town where her family has lived since the early 1800s. Her father was a farmer and her mother, a nurse; her time as a young woman was equally split between home and farm chores with her three siblings (two brothers and one sister), and numerous academic and extracurricular pursuits. She liked most of her classes at school but wasn't too fond of the schoolwork itself. "What I hated was not any particular subject, but anything that reeked of busy work; all the pointless assignments that took a lot of time but taught me nothing." Through it all, though, she always knew she wanted to write -- spending much of her free time reading and composing poetry in secret.

Her father was her inspiration, says Haddix, because of the wild and entertaining st