“It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.”

American young adult novelist

Ann Brashares is an American young adult novelist, best known for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. Her fiction is aimed at younger readers and has made her a familiar name in contemporary young adult literature. She is especially associated with the popular Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books, which brought her wide recognition.