About Wendelin Van Draanen

Wendelin Van Draanen is the author of the book Flipped. She was born January 6 in Chicago IL. She Has won the California Young Reader Medal Flipped. She has written other book like Shredderman: Secret Identity in which she has won a Chrtistopher Medal. HEr inspiration for writing was her mother and father for teaching her to read at a early age. She also say her inspiration for writing is "The past, th future, the struggle for a happy ending." But before Wendelin became a writer she did many other diffrent things such as being a forklift driver, a sports coach, musician, and a highschool computer science teacher.