Ellen Hopkins has wrote a lot of New York Times selling novels because she is one of the greatest poems and novels writer of the 21st century. She is most noticeable by the audience of teenager and young adults for her novels such as the crank series, burned sereis, impulse series, and many others. Her contribution to literature, her life, her work are three of the things that makes her a great literature writer. Ellen Hopkins was born on March 26, 1955 in Long Beach, California. She was adopted at birth by Albert C. and Valeria Wagner who were 72 and 42 at the time. She grew up in Palm Springs, California “in a neighborhood with movie stars, and entertainment icons, including elvis presley, bob hope, kirk douglas, and arnold palmer”(Hopkins, …show more content…
She has been writing ever since she knew how to put words on paper. She wrote her first poem, a brilliant haiku when she was about 9. She usually write free verse poems and sometimes formal poetry. She was “always encouraged by [her] english teachers to write, and won pretty much every creative writing contest [she] ever entered all the way through high school”(Hopkins, “Bio”). She always had support in her writing and that made her really confident in her writing. She has wrote a lot of books and some of her books are based on her real family’s experience such as the crank series. Her other books are all fiction that talks about the teenage years and what they are going through like drugs. Many of her books are banned from many locations because of many complaints about the use of language and sexual themes. Hopkins introduced the main character Kristina and what the book was gonna be about by having Kristina say this, “Life was good before i met the monster. After, life was great at least for a while”(1). This famous quote is from one of her best book Crank published in 2004, the quote explained that this book is gonna be about Kristina using drugs and that she enjoyed it for a while until her life fell apart. Some literary devices she uses in her books are personification, repetition, alliteration, foreshadowing and imagery. The author has