Mary Ann Hoberman

Mary Ann Hoberman is a children's author, poet, playwright and performer. Since 1957, children have enjoyed over 25 books written by Mary Ann, of which the paperback edition of A House is a House for Me won the 1984 National Book Award. In 1976, she wrote Children's Book council poem for Children's Book Week. Mary Ann's other works include One of Each, The Seven Silly Eaters, The Cozy Book, Miss Mary Mack and The Llama Who Had No Pajama. Her most recent books include, There Once Was a Man Named Michael Finnegan, It's Simple, Said Simon and You Read To Me, I'll Read To You.

Numerous anthologies, textbooks, and magazines have published her children's poems, which have also been adapted to radio and television in the United States and abroad.

Mary Ann received her Masters in Arts with honors from Yale University, where she has taught. She served as adjunct professor at Fairfield University, and taught Greenwich Continuing Education and other school in Greenwich, Connecticut. Since the 1960s, Mary Ann has read and lectures on children's poetry and literature in radio and television, and throughout schools, libraries and professional organizations.

As a playwright and performer, Mary Ann originated "Sisters Across the Centuries: A Collage of Women's Voices," a dramatic presentation of women's poetry, which toured schools and libraries in New York and New England between 1983 and 1992. Her "Triple Play" (1975) was performed throughout Connecticut, and at the New School in New York City.

Mary Ann's poetry has also appeared in The Southern Poetry Review, Harper's and Small Pond. She has written articles for The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and The Nutmegger Magazine in Greenwich Connecticut, where she lives with her husband Norman. She is a mother of four and a grandmother of four.