Margaret Peterson Haddix is an American writer. She is well known for composing The Missing series and the Shadow Children sequence. She also created the tenth and final volume in The 39 Clues series, released by Scholastic.
Margaret Peterson Haddix started life in 1964 near Washington Court House, Ohio, where she grew up on a farm.
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She received a Bachelor of Arts in creative composing and journalism from Miami High school in 1987. She worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana; as a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis; and as a community college instructor and freelance author in Danville, Illinois. Haddix and her husband, Doug, a newspaper editor, now live in Columbus, Ohio, with their two children.
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In 2004, Haddix and her publishers, Simon & Schuster, threatened to sue the makers of M. Night Shyamalan's movie The Village over alleged similarities with the plotline of her first novel Running Out of Time. The filmmakers created off the similarities as meritless.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
