She won the American Library Association Award (best books for the teen age selection), New York Public, and New York Public Library Best Books for the teenage designation, Great Lakes Book Award and Michigan State award, and has since won 11 state book awards.

Mass won the American Library Association (ALA) Schneider Family Book Award for her children's book A Mango-Shaped Space in 2004. Over the last six years, Mass wrote seventeen successful educational books for teens. She has a master's degree in creative writing from California State, Long Beach and a Doctor of Letters degree from Drew University. She moved back to her New Jersey hometown and while writing, worked as a book editor, operating out of New York City and Connecticut. Mass however realized she wanted to inspire pre-teens, teens, and adults by writing books for children, teens, and adults. Mass mainly wrote short stories throughout college, and after graduation she moved to Los Angeles, where she tried her hand at a multitude of writing businesses, including assisting a literary agent, and at a television casting company, editor of a magazine, and a script reader for a film producer. CollegeĪs an English major at Tufts University, Mass continued to develop her writing skills. She took writing classes and decided on writing for her career. In high school, Mass worked at local public libraries and continued to hone her writing skills. She also wrote a non-fiction story about a zoo which won a prize in an 8th grade writing contest. Mass's first story, co-written by her two siblings when she was in junior high, starred a cat that somehow turned into a goat and destroyed her neighborhood. Her first career vision was to be an astronaut. As a child she would compete with friends to see who could read the most books this helped develop her writing skills.

Wendy worked at town libraries and ghostwrote her friends' college applications. Born in Livingston, New Jersey, Mass's favorite subjects in school were reading and writing.

Rapunzel by wendy mass