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Tony Abbott, thus far
Tony Abbott loves books and reading; this is the most important thing to know about him. He has an extensive personal library and vast knowledge gained from reading. He is delighted and humbled by the fact that for over 20 years he has made his living writing books.
Abbott was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were teachers, so there were books everywhere. His older brother was a great reader and had a bookshelf of his own, and his father was always writing, so the sound of the typewriter was like the background music of his early childhood.
When he was eight, his family relocated to Fairfield, Connecticut, where his father became a university professor of American history. Tony attended parochial school and public high school. He (and his brother) went to the University of Connecticut, where he majored first in music, then psychology, and finally English literature. After college he traveled to Europe for a while, returned home, and found work in a variety of bookstores, a university library (where he met his wife-to-be), and a publishing company. He wrote poetry for many years.
When he began reading bedtime stories to his children, the spark of writing he had had for so many years finally turned to children’s books. After many failures, his first published book, Danger Guys, was written while taking a writing class with renowned children’s author, Patricia Reilly Giff.
Since then Tony has written over ninety-five books for readers ages 6 to 14, including many series (The Secret of Droon, The Haunting of Derek Stone, Underworlds, Goofballs, to name a few) and novels for older readers, including Kringle, Firegirl, The Postcard, and Lunch-Box Dream. His publishers include HarperCollins, Hyperion, Scholastic, Random House, Little, Brown, Egmont, and Farrar Straus Giroux.
Over 12 million of Tony’s books have been sold worldwide, and his series and novels have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, French, Japane
Interview with Tony Abbott
This episode originally aired on 12/17/2009 with the following authors:
Tony Abbott: Well, its lovely to be here. Thank you very much. Matthew Peterson: Now before we get into your Droon series, lets talk about the new series that youve been writing called The Haunting of Derek Stone. So far youve got four books in the series the City of the Dead, Bayou Dogs, The Red House, and just recently, The Ghost Road. Can you Tony AbbottPrime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015 For other people named Tony Abbott, see Tony Abbott (disambiguation). Anthony John Abbott (; born 4 November 1957) is a British-born Australian former politician who served as the 28th prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Warringah from 1994 to 2019. Abbott was born in London, England, to an Australian mother and a British father, and moved to Sydney at the age of two. He studied economics and law at the University of Sydney, and then attended The Queen's College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics. After graduating from Oxford, Abbott briefly trained as a Roman Catholic seminarian, and later worked as a journalist, manager, and political adviser. In 1992, he was appointed director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, a position he held until his election to parliament as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Warringah at the 1994 Warringah by-election, before the election of the Howard government in 1996. Following the 1998 election, Abbott was appointed Minister for Employment Services in the second Howard ministry. He was promoted to cabinet in 2001 as Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business. In 2003, Abbott became Minister for Health and Ageing, retaining this position until the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 election. Initially serving in the shadow cabinets of Brendan Nelson and then Malcolm Turnbull, Abbott resigned from the front bench in November 2009, in protest against Turnbull's support for the Rudd government's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Forcing a leadership ballot on the subject, Abbott narrowly defeated Turnbull to become the party's leader and leader of the opposition. Abbott led the Liberal-Na Tony Abbott is the author of the internationally popular Secrets of Droon fantasy series. His most popular work is the book series The Secrets of Droon, which includes over 30 books. He has sold over 8 million copies of his books and they have been translated into several other languages, including Italian, Spanish, Korean, French, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, and Russian. Abbott was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952. His father, also a writer, kept many books around his house during his childhood, and this became Abbott's first source of literature. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Connecticut where he went through elementary school and high school. Abbot studied at the University of Connecticut. After unsuccessfully studying both music and psychology, he decided to study English, and graduated from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor's degree in English literature. Abbott currently lives in Trumbull, Connecticut with his wife, two daughters, and dog Comet. |