M. T. Anderson

M. T. Anderson is an American author who writes novels, nonfiction, picture books and graphic novels for young readers, along with short fiction for adults. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Stow, he studied at Cambridge University in England and earned an MFA in creative writing at Syracuse University. He taught for many years at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in the hills of Vermont.

His novel Feed (2002), a satire about teenagers with the internet wired into their brains, was a National Book Award finalist. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party (2006) won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and a Printz Honor, and its second volume, The Kingdom on the Waves, received a Printz Honor as well. Symphony for the City of the Dead tells the story of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the siege of Leningrad.

Anderson wrote The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge (2018) with the illustrator Eugene Yelchin; it was a National Book Award finalist. Elf Dog and Owl Head (2023) received a Newbery Honor.