With such an influential start, one might assume that Hopkins’ road to the bestseller list might have been an easy one.
Hopkins published her first poem, a haiku, at the age of nine and would discover later in life that her biological mother Toni, was also a lifelong poet. Her mother taught her to value literature and to read often. Her father, a self-made millionaire who made his money in the steel industry, taught her the value of working hard and staying honest. She grew up in Palm Springs and went to private school through eighth grade. She was adopted by seventy-two-year-old Albert and forty-two-year old Valeria Wagner at birth. An Author Study and Writing Mini Lesson Author Biographyīest-selling, young adult novelist Ellen Hopkins was born in Long Beach, California in 1955.
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