Ann Brashares grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland with her three brothers, Beau, Justin, and Ben. Her parents, William and Jane Easton Brashares divorced when she was young. Ann attended a Quaker school in the Washington, DC area. Later, she studied Philosophy at Barnard College, part of Columbia University in New York City. Ann took a year off after college to work as an editor, hoping to save money to continue studying Philosphy in graduate school. Instead, she loved her job so much that she never went to graduate school. Ann remained in New York City and worked as an editor for many years. In 2001, she made the transition from editor to full-time writer published her first novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Since then, The Sisterhood has become very popular, and Ann has written two sequels; The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (2003) and Girls in Pants - The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (2005). There is also a movie coming out in Spring, 2005, called simply, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Currently, Ann lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Jacob Collins, an artist, and their three children, Sam, Nathaniel, and Susannah.
