Connie Porter

Quick Facts

Full Name	Connie Porter
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jul 29, 1959(1959-07-29)
Age	65
Birthplace	Buffalo
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Leo

Connie Porter Biography

Connie Porter is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on July 29, 1959 in Buffalo, New York, United States.

Connie Rose Porter (born July 29, 1959) is an African-American writer of young-adult books, and a teacher of creative writing. Porter is best known for her contribution to the American Girl Collection Series as the author of the Addy books: six of her Addy books have gone on to sell more than 3 million copies. In addition, she published two novels with Houghton-Mifflin, All- Bright Court (1991), and Imani All Mine (1999).

As she became a teenager, Porter became more interested in works by black writers and about black characters. At age 14, she started writing. When she first told her mother she wanted to be a writer, Porter’s mother dismissed her: “My mother didn’t pay me any attention. She was cooking”. However, Porter’s parent’s gave her a type writer as a Christmas gift when she was in 10th grade and she started to write poetry. “Inspired by her readings of Nikki Giovanni, she first wrote poetry that was angry and admittedly awful, but that was important to her growing cultural awareness”. She graduated high school at Buffalo City Honors School, and then moved on to earn her bachelor’s degree from State University of New York at Albany (1981) and a Masters of Fine Arts at Louisiana State University (LSU) (1987). She has also taught creative writing at Emerson College, Southern Illinois University—Carbondale, and Milton Academy in Massachusetts where she started writing her first novel.

Connie Porter Net Worth

Connie Porter is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Connie Porter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The Addy Series are based on the American Girl doll of the same name, one of the original Historical Characters. Pleasant Company, the owner of American Girl, approached Porter to write the series. The books follow Addy Walker, a young slave who runs away with her mother to freedom in Philadelphia during the American Civil War. There, she grows up and faces challenges in the urban North, such as learning to read and discrimination. preparation for writing a novel with the heavy issue of slavery as the basis of the book, Ms. Porter did extensive research about 1864 to accurately portray the era and environment to help the reader achieve a real sense of being in 1864. “As a writer, you have to put yourself in the place of other people and other worlds”. She also refused to negotiate on the book’s slavery theme, which was caused some controversy. Porter also tried to accurately portray the hardships surrounding slavery in a way that would engage her readers and not alienate them. “Slavery is difficult for even adults to talk about…I didn’t want to portray slavery as everyone on a porch or wearing beautiful clothes. It was a very awful period, but we’re also talking about people who had loving families”. When Addy was introduced in 1993, over 1 million books were sold, Porter’s popularity soared and more than 15,000 came to meet her. The Addy novels have sold more than 3 million copies.

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Corran Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Connie Porter celebrates birthday on July 29 of every year.