Wendy Mass born January 19, 1967 in Livingston, NJ is an award-winning author of young-adult novels and children's books. Her most successful book was A Mango-Shaped Space which won the American Library Association (ALA) Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School in 2004. She also wrote the book Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life. She grew up in Livingston, New york. She also won the Peoples' Choice Award for the same book. As a child Wendy's favorite subjects in school were always reading and writing. As a child Wendy would love competing on who reads the most books with her best friends, Wendy did it just for fun, but that however turned her into a writer. Wendy's first story cowritten by her two siblings was starring her pet that somehow turned into a goat and destroyed the neighborhood. It was a junior high story, and it was just the beginning of Mass's career. In high school Mass spent most of her time working at local public libraries and continued on working on her writing skills through high school. She was taking writing classes at her school, and she was now sure that writing was what she wanted to do. Mass currently lives in New Jersey with her 3 year old twins Griffin and Chloe, her husband Mike, and her very small and cute cat Zoey, as of October 1, 2008.

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