Ally Condie is a writer who currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling trilogy, Matched. This series contains Matched, Crossed, and Reached. Condie is a new author of books and her first book, Matched, was published recently in 2010. Immediately after her book was released, she began her way to becoming a popular author. Currently her books have won many titles including Publisher's Weekly Best Children’s Books of 2010 and YALSA’s 2011 Teens’ Top Ten.
Aside from writing, Condie enjoys running, reading, and playing the guitar. She was a former English teacher and has always had the passion to write books. She draws her book ideas from the activities occurring around her as well as other books. Whenever she edits her writing, she plays music to get into the right mood. This has, since the beginning of her writing career, become a tradition of hers.
