Unfortunately, she was kicked out: 'I was an unruly, rebellious child – a troublemaker with low marks.

Meaker asked her parents to send her to Stuart Hall School, a boarding school in Staunton, Virginia, when she heard that lesbian activity occurred frequently at boarding schools. She was particularly interested in the idea of a pseudonym, that one could invent a new name, and a new personality with each name. I still feel that way.' Meaker grew up in a house filled with books and was fascinated by the concept of writing and writers. I felt she was a champion of everyone who felt out-of-step with the world. She was also this sensitive, intelligent writer whose words were lovely. In a 2006 interview, Meaker said of McCullers, 'I was drawn to all McCullers’s books. She mentioned in an autobiography that Carson McCullers' book Member of the Wedding influenced her. Her father was a mayonnaise manufacturer. Meaker was born May 27, 1927, in Auburn, New York, to Ellis R. I guess I write for myself at that age.' Early life and education

So I write with a different feeling when I write for young adults.

Meaker said of this approach, ' 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's books feature 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.' Meaker won multiple awards including the American Library Association's lifetime award for young-adult literature, the ALA Margaret A. As Mary James, she wrote books for younger children. As Ann Aldrich, she wrote nonfiction books about lesbians, and as M.E. Under the name Vin Packer, she wrote mystery and crime novels, including Spring Fire. Marijane Agnes Meaker (– November 21, 2022) was an American writer who, along with Tereska Torres, was credited with launching the lesbian pulp fiction genre, the only accessible novels on that theme in the 1950s. Mystery fiction, lesbian pulp fiction, young adult fiction

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