# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-t-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:27:14.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-t-anderson"
name: "M. T. Anderson"
slug: "m-t-anderson"
description: "Matthew Tobin Anderson is an American writer of children's books that range from picture books to young adult novels. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2006 for The Pox Party, the first of two \"Octavian Nothing\" books, which are historical novels set in Revolution-era Boston. Anderson is known for using wit and sarcasm in his stories, as well as advocating that young adults are capable of mature comprehension."
tagline: "American children's writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/M_T_Anderson_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.567785333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mt-anderson.com"
sources:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump