Wendy Lichtman

Wendy Lichtman writes personal essays for the Washington Post , New York Times , San Francisco Chronicle , and Good Housekeeping , among other national publications. She has also written four previous young adult novels, including Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra . She holds a degree in mathematics and has tutored public-school students in algebra for several years. When she decided to write about a teenage girl who realizes that some questions have more than one right answer, algebra,...See more

Wendy Lichtman writes personal essays for the Washington Post , New York Times , San Francisco Chronicle , and Good Housekeeping , among other national publications. She has also written four previous young adult novels, including Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra . She holds a degree in mathematics and has tutored public-school students in algebra for several years. When she decided to write about a teenage girl who realizes that some questions have more than one right answer, algebra, with its unknowns and variables, seemed a perfect metaphor. Wendy Lichtman lives in Berkeley, California. See less