Margaret Peterson Haddix (edit name/settings)

libby penick edited the overview of Margaret Peterson Haddix Friday, January 13, 2012.

• Margaret Peterson Haddix was born in 1964 near Washington Court House, Ohio, where she grew up on a farm.farm. A happy place to live.

  She received a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing and journalism from Miami University in 1987. She worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana; as a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis; and as a community college instructor and freelance writer in Danville, Illinois. Haddix and her husband, Doug, a newspaper editor, now live in Columbus, Ohio, with their two children.

  In 2004, Haddix and her publishers, Simon & Schuster, threatened to sue the makers of M. Night Shyamalan's film The Village over alleged similarities with the plotline of her first novel Running Out of Time.The filmmakers wrote off the similarities as "meritless".

Clare Sleepyhead18 :) --"I will always love you until the day after forever."-Beautiful Chaos:D edited the overview of Margaret Peterson Haddix Monday, October 17, 2011.

• Margaret Peterson Haddix was born in 1964 near Washington Court House, Ohio, where she grew up on a farm.

  She received a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing and journalism from Miami University in 1987. She worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana; as a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis; and as a community college instructor and freelance writer in Danville, Illinois. Haddix and her husband, Doug, a newspaper editor, now live in Columbus, Ohio, with their two children.

  In 2004, Haddix and her publishers, Simon & Schuster, threatened to sue the makers of M. Night Shyamalan's film The Village over alleged similarities with the plotline of her first novel Running Out of Time.The filmmakers wrote off the similarities as "meritless".