Ellen Hopkins blog post

              I got the idea of doing a blog post about the author instead of the book for a change from Aleyna, as she did a blog post about the author of the book she was reading instead of her actual book. So, I decided, because my book is so intense, I should research the author, so here she is, in all of her glory, Ellen Hopkins. Ellen Hopkins actually started writing non-fiction novels before she wrote books in verse. She has more books besides the crank series, which includes Glass, Crank and Fallout. She also has the Triangle novels, the Impulse novels, the Burned novels, and other one word titled novels. ellen Hopkins didn't exactly have a dandy life while she was married and with children. She dropped out of college and had two kids, then got divorced. Then she got rid of her business and had a baby with an abusive man, who kidnapped the baby for three years until the man's grandmother found Kelly, the baby. She is now married to John Hopkins, and they adopted Crystal's(their daughter) son, Orion. In the end of glass and Crank it states that Kristina's mother was the official mother of the little boy when he was three or four.

            I saw a picture of Ellen Hopkins, and it wasn't what I expected. She is bottle blonde, and older. I guess I was expecting someone younger. But don't judge a book by it's cover. Even though she dropped out of college, Ellen Hopkins is a very good poet.She published her first poem when she was nine, in a magazine. Ellen Hopkins was adopted, and she didn't know who her birth mother was until later in life, just a fact. But it makes me wonder if that was an inspiration for many of her poems. She also had a half-sister, who she hasn't met, and her dad did not want to meet her at all, or have any recollection of him being together with her biological mother. I learned this by looking at Ellen Hopkins' website and Wikepidia. I look at it and think about how much writing this woman has done. she has written at least half a dozen 3-inch thick books, and even if they are in verse, it still takes just as much thinking. Now here is some more about the Crank series related to Ellen Hopkins' life.

             If you were wondering if Crank, Glass and Fallout were real stories, well go read my last post. I told you there. If you are too lazy to do that then I will tell you; yes, it is a true story. It is rough, yes, but I am guessing from the info on her website that is is roughly similar, and that all of the basic parts of the story are there. Crystal is Kristina in her books, and Orion is Hunter. Who knows who the new baby is, if that is a true part of the story. my goal for this series is to find out more about who is who, and read the last book in the series. Well, thats all for now. Au Revoir!