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Wendelin Van Draanen was born on 6 January, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, is an American writer. Discover Wendelin Van Draanen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?
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59 years old |
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Capricorn |
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6 January 1965 |
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6 January |
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Chicago, Illinois, United States |
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United States
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Wendelin Van Draanen Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Connor Parsons, Colton Parsons |
Wendelin Van Draanen Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Wendelin Van Draanen worth at the age of 59 years old? Wendelin Van Draanen’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. She is from United States. We have estimated Wendelin Van Draanen's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Wendelin Van Draanen (born January 6, 1965) is an American writer of children's and young-adult fiction.
Van Draanen was born in Chicago, Illinois.
One of her very early influences was Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury.
According to the author, the book was "about the magic of growing up and [it] reminded me of all the wonderful mischief my brothers and I got into when we were young".
Bradbury's work inspired Van Draanen to write How I Survived Being a Girl, which was published by HarperCollins in 1997.
Other early influences include Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown.
In college, the Van Draanen family business was burned down, leading to financial hardship.
Wendelin turned to writing to alleviate stress and she published her first book in 1997, titled How I Survived Being a Girl.
Van Draanen is the daughter of two chemists who immigrated from the Netherlands.
Before she became a full-time writer she was a high school math teacher and computer science teacher.
Van Draanen lives in San Luis Obispo, California, with her husband Mark Parsons and two sons, Colton and Connor.
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief, which inaugurated the Sammy Keyes series in 1998, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America in 1999.
The eighteen-book series follows the adventures of a disenfranchised teen as she navigates middle school and life.
Runaway, a companion book to the Sammy Keyes series, is about a girl named Holly who tries to escape from her latest foster home.
From 2004 to 2006 Van Draanen wrote Shredderman, a four-book series for younger readers about a fifth grade boy who assumes a secret online identity to help him win a battle against the school bully Bubba Bixby.
She also wrote the standalone teen romance Flipped in a he-said she-said style, with the two protagonists alternately presenting their perspective on a shared set of events.
The two protagonists Bryce and Julianna are neighbors.
The book was made into a Warner Brothers feature film directed by Rob Reiner in 2010.
WorldCat participating libraries report works by and about Wendelin Van Draanen that encompass roughly 70+ works in 370+ publications in 12 languages and 51,000+ library holdings.
The Sammy Keyes series has been published by Knopf imprints of Random House, with 18 books in total.
