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Fever 1793 was written by Laurie Halse Anderson. Born on October 23, 1961, Laurie was inspired to write in the second grade after a haiku lesson. She grew up in the town of Potsdam, northern New York and eventually attended college at Onondaga community college for two years, then transferred to Georgetown. She graduated in 1984 with a B.S.L.L. which she later realized would not help her get a job. She married a computer "geek," Greg Anderson, and they had 2 children together: Stephanie Holcomb (1985) and Meredeth Lauren (1987). Laurie had a clear passion and talent for writing but brushed it off merely as a hobby. After coming to the realization that she could get paid to be a writer, she quickly became a freelance reporter. She later started to write books but kept getting rejection letters back constantly. Eventually, in 1996, she published/ wrote her first book, Ndito Runs. Later that same year, she came out with the book Turkey Pox which was inspired by her daughter Meredeth when she came down with chicken pox on Thanksgiving. A sequel to Turkey Pox came out in 1998 called No Time For Mother's Day. Laurie started writing non-fiction books for extra cash. Strangely, she had done so much researching for the book Fever, and continuously rewrote it, she had originally titled it Bitter Drops. She then rethought the title and came up with Fever 1793. She took a break in writing Fever and started writing Speak, published in 1999. She finally finished Fever and it was published in 2000. She continued writing many more books and a few won novel awards.

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