Meaker (a mayonnaise manufacturer) in Auburn, New York, where she also spent her childhood. So I write with a different feeling when I write for young adults. When I think of myself and what I would have liked to have found in books those many years ago, I remember being depressed by all the neatly tied-up, happy-ending stories, the abundance of winners, the themes of winning, solving, finding - when around me it didn't seem that easy. Meaker said of this approach, 'I was a bookworm and a poetry lover. Irrespective of genre or pen name, Meaker's books have in common complex characters that have difficult relationships and complicated problems, who rail against conformity. She was described by The New York Times Book Review as 'one of the grand masters of young adult fiction.' As Mary James, she has written four books for a younger children's audience. Kerr, producing over 20 novels and winning multiple awards. In 1972 she switched genres and pen names once more to begin writing for young adults, and became quite successful as M.E. Using her own observations of lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote a series of nonfiction books under the name Ann Aldrich from 1955 to 1972. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote twenty mystery and crime novels under the name Vin Packer including the immensely popular Spring Fire, that is credited with launching the genre of lesbian 'pulp' fiction, although the majority of Packer's books didn't address homosexuality or gay characters. Elisa_rolle Marijane Meaker (born May 27, 1927) is an American novelist and short story writer, who has used multiple pseudonyms for different genres.

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