HOLLY GOLDBERG SLOAN… was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and spent a peripatetic childhood (following her Professor father and architect mother) living in California, The Netherlands, Istanbul, Turkey (where she went to high school), Washington D.C. and Oregon.

She attended college at Wellesley in Massachusetts (with her junior year of study done at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire). After graduating, Holly went to New York City and took a job at Grey Advertising answering phones and writing at night and on weekends (and when no one was paying attention to what she was doing at work).

A year later she had moved to Los Angeles where she sold her first screenplay at the age of twenty-four to Paramount Pictures. Holly continued to write, but supported herself for the next ten years by working in commercial advertising as a production assistant, then a script supervisor, a producer, and finally as a commercial director.

More information can be found at: http://hollygoldbergsloan.com/about-holly.php

Fun Facts

• Holly has also written and directed movies.
• Holly's book Counting by 7s won Best Book for Young Readers in Pennsylvania.
• She was the first woman to direct a live action film for Disney when she both wrote and directed the soccer film The Big Green (1995).
• Holly's most-recent book is called Short. It is a New York Times Bestseller (and was recently featured at our book fair).
• Appleblossom the Possum was illustrated by Holly's husband Gary Rosen.