M T Anderson

M. T. Anderson, born Matthew Tobin Anderson on November 4, 1968, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an American author renowned for children's picture books, young adult novels, fantasy, and satire. He gained prominence with works like *Feed* (2002), a National Book Award finalist and L.A. Times Book Prize winner, and *The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party* (2006), which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Anderson attended Harvard, Cambridge University, and Syracuse University, and lives in the Cambridge area.