Martha Brockenbrough

Martha Brockenbrough is an American author of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. Her first book, "It Could Happen To You: Diary Of A Pregnancy and Beyond", was published by Andrews McMeel Publishing in 2002. She is the founder of National Grammar Day and The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar (SPOGG).^[1]

Life

Brockenbrough was born in Seattle, Washington, and graduated in 1992 from Stanford University, where she studied Classics and English. She was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily.^[2]

Career

Brockenbrough was editor of MSN.com^[3] and was an educational humor columnist for Encarta.com before its demise in 2009.^[4] She founded National Grammar Day in 2008.^[5]

Writing awards

Brockenbrough's young adult novel "The Game of Love and Death," published 2015, was a finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize,.^[6] The book was selected as one of the Top 10 Romances for Youth by the American Library Association's publication, Booklist.^[7] It is also a nominee for YALSA's Best Books For Young Adults in 2016.^[8] It was listed as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2015,^[9] and won the 2016 Washington State Book Awards in the category Books For Young Adults.^[10]

In spring 2016, The Discovery Channel published Brockenbrough's "Shark Week: Everything You Need to Know". Publishers Weekly recommended the book to young readers.^[11]

Prior to "The Game of Love and Death," Brockenbrough wrote "Devine Intervention," a Kirkus Reviews Top 100 Books for Teens selection in 2012,^[12] and was selected by the Kansas State Reading Circle.^[13] It also won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association book award for 2016.^[14]

Bibliography

Fiction

• Brockenbrough, Martha (June 1, 2012). Devine Intervention. Arthur A. Levine Books. ISBN 978-0545382137. ^[15]
• Brockenbrough, Martha (June 25, 2013). The Dinosaur Tooth Fairy. Arthur A. Levine. ISBN 978-0545244664. ^[16]
• Brockenbrough, Martha (April 28, 2015). The Game of Love and Death. Arthur A. Levine Books. ISBN 978-0545668347. ^[17][18][19]

Non-fiction

• Brockenbrough, Martha (September 2, 2002). It Could Happen To You: Diary Of A Pregnancy and Beyond. Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN 978-0740726859. 
• Brockenbrough, Martha (October 14, 2008). Things That Make Us [Sic]. St. Martin's Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0312378080. 
• Brockenbrough, Martha (August 13, 2013). Finding Bigfoot. Feiwel & Friends. p. 160. ISBN 978-1250040909. ^[20]
• Brockenbrough, Martha; Discovery (May 17, 2016). Shark Week:Everything You Need to Know. Feiwel & Friends. p. 160. ISBN 978-1250097774. 

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