- "Margaret Peterson Haddix graduated from Miami university WITH degrees in creative writing, journalism, and history and Has worked as a newspaper reported and a community college instructor. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with HER HUSBAND DOUG, AND THEIR CHILDREN, Meredith AND Connor."
-as READ IN Margaret Peterson hADDIX'S BOOK among the barons
One day Margaret and her husband were deciding on if they should have another child. Margaret was thinking if they should stop with two. Margaret thought that the world was overpopulated, and it might be irresponsible to have more than two kids. As she states on her website "I remember thinking in frustration one night, “Well, if overpopulation were that bad of a problem, there’d be a law, that nobody could have a third child!” My next thought was, “What if there was a law like that?” I knew instantly that I had a good idea for a book, regardless of what my husband and I decided."