About+the+Author-+Anne+Schraff



=**Anne Schraff grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from California State University at Northridge. Anne taught high school for ten years.** = =**Anne started getting paid for her writing in college. She sold a story to a western magazine; this paid her way through college.** = =**She no longer writes pieces for magazines, only fiction and nonfiction books.** = =**Since college she has written hundreds of stories and over eighty books.** = =**Her background, which she describes as " multicultural, lower middle-class neighborhood, including African Americans, Mexican Americans, Arab Americans, and Filipino Americans," is her greatest inspiration when writing. Her father died when she was three; she and her brother were raised by their single mother in neighborhoods that were not by any means upscale.** = @http://www.jacketflap.com/anne-e-schraff/9719 For an interview with Anne Schraff visit: http://www.californiareaders.org/interviews/schraff_anne.php

=**Some criticism has been leveled against Schraff because she is not a minority and therefore her view is not genuine. From looking at her Urban Underground series and the themes she includes, this series is not about looking at a minority view, but from a human view. Her lessons are more about what we should have in common--finding love, valuing education, human respect, and importance of family.** =