Fun Fast Facts About Mary Pope Osborne:
- As the daughter of a military family, Mary Pope Osborne moved around a lot. She had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four different posts in North Carolina and Virginia by the time she was 15!
- Mary Pope Osborne could be called a cave woman! After she graduated college, she lived in a cave on a small island in Crete for six months.
- After college, she traveled with a small group of friends from Europe in a rickety caravan over 16 Asian Countries such as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal. I bet even Jack and Annie haven’t been to that many places!
- Before she became a world famous children’s author, she had several interesting jobs. She has worked as a window dresser, a medical assistant, a Russian travel consultant, a waitress, taught acting classes in a nursing home in the Bronx, a bartender, and an editor at a children’s magazine.
- She has a little dog, a terrier, named Bailey who sleeps on top of her computer as she writes.
- She escaped many near-death experiences while in an earthquake in Afghanistan, a riot in Kabul, and then blood poisoning in Kathmandu
- She was president of the Authors Guild for four years.
- Her husband, Will Osborne, has helped to write a Magic Tree House musical.
- She has three dogs.
- Mary has a twin brother as well as an older sister and younger brother.
- She once worked as a Russian travel consultant.
- She met her husband at a play about Jesse James. He was playing the lead role in the musical.
- Her books have been translated into over 30 languages from all over the world.
- Mary has written over 100 books!