Martha Brockenbrough
{{short description|American novelist}}
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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 The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar (SPOGG) and of National Grammar Day (observed in the United States since 2008).{{cite web|url=http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/national-grammar-day|title=National Grammar Day|work=Quick and Dirty Tips|date=16 May 2023 }}McIntyre, John. [http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/language-blog/bal-prepare-yourself-for-national-grammar-day-20150227-story.html3 "Prepare yourself for National Grammar Day"], The Baltimore Sun, February 27, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
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.{{cite web|url=http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19920129-01.2.23&srpos=1&e=17-01-1992-----en-20--1--txt-txIN-brockenbrough------#|title=The Stanford Daily 29 January 1992 — The Stanford Daily|work=stanforddailyarchive.com}}
Career
Brockenbrough was editor of MSN.com{{cite web|url=http://www.midwestwriters.org/2015/04/martha-brockenbrough-joins-mww15-faculty/|title=Martha Brockenbrough Joins MWW15 Faculty|author=Midwest Writers|work=Midwest Writer's Workshop|date=13 April 2015}} and was an educational humor columnist for Encarta.com before its demise in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/marthabrockenbrough|title=Martha Brockenbrough|author=Macmillan Publishers}} She founded National Grammar Day in 2008.{{cite journal|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Verbal-Energy/2013/0302/The-imperatives-of-National-Grammar-Day|title=The imperatives of National Grammar Day|author=The Christian Science Monitor|journal=The Christian Science Monitor|date=2 March 2013}}
Writing awards
Brockenbrough's young adult novel The Game of Love and Death, published 2015, was a finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize,.{{Cite news|title = In Sophomore Year, Kirkus Prize Features An Eclectic Mix Of Finalists|url = https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/30/444532090/in-sophomore-year-kirkus-prize-features-an-eclectic-mix-of-finalists|website = NPR.org|date = 30 September 2015|accessdate = 2015-10-19|last1 = Dwyer|first1 = Colin}} The book was selected as one of the Top 10 Romances for Youth by the American Library Association's publication, Booklist.{{cite book|url=http://www.booklistonline.com/Top-10-Romance-Fiction-for-Youth-2015-Ilene-Cooper/pid=7705180|title=Top 10 Romance Fiction for Youth: 2015, by Ilene Cooper - Booklist Online|via=booklistonline.com}} It is also a nominee for YALSA's Best Books For Young Adults in 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/bfya-nominations|title=BFYA Nominations|work=ala.org}} It was listed as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2015,{{Cite web|title = Best Books of 2015 {{!}} Publishers Weekly|url = http://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2015/young-adult#book/book-9|website = PublishersWeekly.com|accessdate = 2015-10-30}} and won the 2016 Washington State Book Awards in the category Books For Young Adults.{{Cite web|title = Books For Young Adults 2016 {{!}} Seattle Public Library|url = http://www.spl.org/about-the-library/library-news-releases/wsba-finalists-announced-914|website = spl.org|accessdate = 2016-10-09}}
In spring 2016, The Discovery Channel published Brockenbrough's Shark Week: Everything You Need to Know. Publishers Weekly recommended the book to young readers.{{cite web|url=http://publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-09778-1|website = PublishersWeekly.com|accessdate = 2016-05-31|title=Shark Week:Everything You Need to Know}}
Prior to The Game of Love and Death, Brockenbrough wrote Devine Intervention, a Kirkus Reviews Top 100 Books for Teens selection in 2012,{{cite journal|title=Best Children's Books of 2012|journal=Kirkus Reviews|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/issue/2012-best-of/section/children/|accessdate=29 October 2015}} and was selected by the Kansas State Reading Circle.{{cite web |url=http://www.knea.org/home/rccitem.htm?rccitemid=2825 |title=KNEA - RCC Item |website=www.knea.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008205501/http://www.knea.org/home/rccitem.htm?rccitemid=2825 |archive-date=2015-10-08}} It also won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association book award for 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pnba.org/2016-book-awards.html|title = 2016 Book Awards}}
In 2022, Brockenbrough's picture book I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story won the Carter G. Woodson Book Award (Elementary Level).{{cite web |title=Carter G. Woodson Book Award and Honor Winners |url=https://www.socialstudies.org/awards/woodson/winners |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=National Council for the Social Studies}}
Bibliography
=Fiction=
- {{cite book|last1=Brockenbrough|first1=Martha|title=Devine Intervention|date=June 1, 2012|publisher=Arthur A. Levine Books|isbn=978-0545382137|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/devineinterventi00broc}}{{cite news|last1=Carpenter|first1=Susan|title=Review: 'Devine Intervention' shows there's life in afterlife|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2012-jun-11-la-et-book-20120611-story.html|access-date=29 October 2015|work=Los Angeles Times|date=11 June 2012}}
- {{cite book|last1=Brockenbrough|first1=Martha|title=The Dinosaur Tooth Fairy|date=June 25, 2013|publisher=Arthur A. Levine|isbn=978-0545244664}}{{cite journal|title=The Dinosaur Tooth Fairy|journal=Booklist|url=http://www.booklistonline.com/The-Dinosaur-Tooth-Fairy-Martha-Brockenbrough/pid=6064800|accessdate=29 October 2015}}
- {{cite book|last1=Brockenbrough|first1=Martha|title=The Game of Love and Death|date=April 28, 2015|publisher=Arthur A. Levine Books|isbn=978-0545668347}}{{cite journal|title=Game of Love and Death|journal=Booklist|url=http://www.booklistonline.com/The-Game-of-Love-and-Death-Martha-Brockenbrough/pid=7361049}}{{cite journal|title=Martha Brockenbrough's The Game of Love and Death|journal=Kirkus Reviews|date=3 February 2015|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/martha-brockenbrough/the-game-of-love-and-death/|accessdate=29 October 2015}}{{cite journal|title=Game of Love and Death|journal=Scholastic|url=http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/game-love-and-death|accessdate=29 October 2015}}
=Non-fiction=
- {{cite book|last1=Brockenbrough|first1=Martha|title=It Could Happen To You: Diary Of A Pregnancy and Beyond|date=September 2, 2002|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing|isbn=978-0740726859}}
- {{cite book|last1=Brockenbrough|first1=Martha|title=Things That Make Us [Sic]|date=October 14, 2008|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0312378080|pages=272}}
- {{cite book|last1=Brockenbrough|first1=Martha|title=Finding Bigfoot|date=August 13, 2013|publisher=Feiwel & Friends|isbn=978-1250040909|pages=160}}{{cite web|url=http://blogs.sos.wa.gov/library/index.php/2014/11/|title=Between the Lines » 2014 » November|work=wa.gov}}
- {{cite book|last1=Brockenbrough|first1=Martha|last2=Discovery|title=Shark Week:Everything You Need to Know|date=May 17, 2016|publisher=Feiwel & Friends|isbn=978-1250097774|pages=160}}
- {{cite book|last1=Brockenbrough|first1=Martha|title=Alexander Hamilton - Revolutionary|date=September 5, 2017|publisher=Feiwel & Friends|isbn=978-1250123190}}{{cite news|last1=SLJ|title=Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary by Martha Brockenbrough |url=http://www.slj.com/2017/06/reviews/books/alexander-hamilton-revolutionary-by-martha-brockenbrough-slj-review/|accessdate=5 September 2017|publisher=School Library Journal|date=5 September 2017}}
- Brockenbrough, Martha (November 13, 2018) Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump. Feiwel & Friends. {{ISBN|9781250308030}}.{{Cite news|url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250308030|title=Unpresidented {{!}} Martha Brockenbrough {{!}} Macmillan|work=US Macmillan|access-date=2018-09-11|language=en-US}}
- Brockenbrough, Martha (November 23, 2021) I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. {{ISBN|9780316426923}}.{{Cite book |url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/martha-brockenbrough/i-am-an-american/9780316426923/?lens=little-brown-books-for-young-readers |title=I Am an American |date=2021-03-09 |isbn=978-0-316-42692-3 |language=en-US}}
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Category:21st-century American women writers
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Category:Novelists from Washington (state)
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