Anna carey author biography
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Anna Carey
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Website
http://www.annacareybooks.com
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February 2011
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Anna Carey has been a gift wrapper, face painter, nanny, horrific cocktail waitress, sofa saleswoman and children's book editor. She graduated from New York University and has an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she can be found writing, reading, and referencing 90s pop culture. Anna Carey has been a gift wrapper, face painter, nanny, horrific blandad drink waitress, sofa saleswoman and children's book editor. She graduated from New York University and has an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she can be found writing, reading, and referencing 90s pop culture. ...more
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Anna Carey author biography, plus links to books by Anna Carey.
Anna Carey
Anna Carey has been a gift wrapper, face painter, nanny, horrific cocktail waitress, sofa saleswoman and children's book editor. She graduated from New York University and has an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she can be found writing, reading, and doodling on the giant chalkboard in her kitchen.
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Anna Carey
Irish writer, journalist, and musician
Anna Carey is an Irish author of young adult novels, and journalist and musician.[1] Her first novel, The Real Rebecca, won the Children's Book of the Year (Senior Category) at the Irish Book Awards in 2011.[2]
Career
[edit]Carey toured and played with bands for 15 years, both as a singer and musician. During that time, she recorded with the band El Diablo and appeared on two of their albums.[1]
She later became a ung adult writer. She wrote a series of books with a protagonist named Rebecca, including The Real Rebecca and its sequels, Rebecca's Rules, Rebecca Rocks and Rebecca is Always Right.[3] The books are written in the form of collected diary entries.[3][1]
She also wrote a historical fiction series, with the first book titled The Making of Mollie. The book is set in Dublin in 1912; in it, a young girl becomes involved with the women's suff