Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders (Baggott) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• AKA—Bridget Asher; N.E. Bode
• Birth—September 30, 1969
• Raised—Newark, Deleware, USA
• Education—B.A., Loyola University-Maryland; M.F.A., University of North Carolina-Greensboro
• Currently—lives in Tallahassee, Florida


Julianna Baggott is a novelist, essayist, and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts, as well as a visiting professor at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She lives in Florida with her husband, writer David G.W. Scott, and their four children.

Early years
Baggott began publishing when she was twenty-two. After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel Girl Talk (2001) while she was still in her twenties. Girl Talk was a national bestseller and was quickly followed by The Miss America Family (2002), and then The Madam (2003), a historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You (2006) with Steve Almond, which became one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2006.

Books
Over the past dozen years or so years, Baggott has published some 20 books. Her 2015 novel, Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders tells the story of a fictitional writer's family searching for their mother's last book. Pure, the first in a dystopian trilogy, came out in 2012, followed by Fuse in 2013 and Burn in 2014, both part of the Pure trilogy.

Pen names and children's books
She has published several books under the pen name Bridget Asher—All of Us and Everything (2015), My Husband's Sweethearts (2008), The Pretend Wife (2009), and The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted (2011).

She also writes bestselling novels for younger readers under the name N.E. Bode. Her Anybodies trilogy—The Anybodies (2005), The Somebodies (2007), and The Nobodies (2011)—was a People magazine pick, a Washington Post Book of the Week, a Girls' Life Top Ten, and a Booksense selection.

In 2007, also as N.E. Bode, she wrote The Slippery Map, as well as The Amazing Compendium of Edward Magorium That book was the "prequel" to the 2007 film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman.

N.E. Bode was a recurring personality on Sirius XM Radio for two years.

She penned two other children's books under her own name, Julianne Baggott—The Prince of Fenway Park and The Ever Breath, both in 2009.

Other works
In addition to fiction, Baggott has published three collections of poetry—Lizzie Borden in Love (2009), Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees (2007), and This Country of Mothers (2001). Her poems have been published in major literary publications, including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and The Best American Poetry.

Baggott's work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Glamour, Ms., Real Simple, and read on NPR's Here and Now and Talk of the Nation. Her essays, stories, and poems are highly anthologized. She also writes haiku, which is one of her many passions.

Philanthropy
In 2006, Baggott and her husband co-founded the nonprofit organization Kids in Need-Books in Deed, which focuses on literacy and getting free books to underprivileged children in the state of Florida. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 9/5/2015.)