Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Born on April 16, 1984) is an American author of fantasy and young adult literature. She was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, In the Forests of the Night, was published in 1999, when she was just fourteen years old. She has published a new young adult novel every subsequent year since her first and has moved from her family's Sudbury home to a nearby Massachusetts town. Atwater was born in 1984 to Susan Atwater-Rhodes, a vice principal of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. In her early years and as the "teen successor to Anne Rice", Atwater-Rhodes wrote her first novel at the age of thirteen. At the time, she said she had over a dozen...