For her, high school life was mediocre and most of her high school friends are actually also interested in creative pastimes like choir, creative writing, theater and dance-which suited her perfectly fine.Īs for sports, she was not really interested in it and at best she was just mediocre. She has a younger brother named Albert Jr.

Then from her adoptive father, Albert, she learned a lot of values especially the value of honesty and a strong work ethic-which pretty much comes out in her writing. Thus, from her adoptive mom she learned to love language. Valeria, read to her children’s stories each night and by the time she was in pre-school, she was already reading chapter books. And she also believes that this talent was nurtured further by her adoptive parents. Of course, as a natural daughter of a writer and a poet, she believes that this talent and gift runs through her too. When asked if her talent for writing was inherent or nurtured, she directly answers that it’s both. It was reported that by the year 2000, Ellen Hopkins finally found her biological mother, Toni Chandler who was also a poet and a writer, just like herself. She conceded that it was definitely a challenge living with older parents along, of course, with lots of wonderful benefits. She is born on Maand her adoptive parents were already old, with her mom 42 years old and her dad at 72 years old. Early LifeĮllen Hopkins is a self-confessed adopted child of Valeria and Albert Wagner. She is a favorite author for both young adult and the teenage readers. She is well known for her books entitled Crank, Burned, Impulse and several others. Ellen Louise Hopkins is a New York Times Bestselling author.

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