Annemarie O’Brien writes dog books for children of all ages and blogs on Best Dog Books, a go-to-resource that features author interviews and other posts about dog books. She is the author of the debut middle grade novel, Lara’s Gift, published by Alfred A. Knopf of Penguin Random House with subsidiary rights to Scholastic. Lara’s Gift is a dog story inspired from a former life when Annemarie worked in Russia and was gifted her first borzoi puppy. Lara’s Gift has received starred reviews from School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews among other accolades.
Annemarie grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she earned a BBA in marketing and economics, and studied Russian at Smith College. She later earned an MBA in international business from the University of South Carolina and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Today, Annemarie lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her family and teaches writing courses at UC Berkeley Extension, Stanford Continuing Studies, and Pixar.
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