The hysteria in 1793 was very real, probably worse than it is now without easy access to social media. The plot revolves entirely around the yellow fever pandemic and is primarily character-driven. The family runs a popular coffeehouse that Mattie is determined to take over one day even though her mother would rather she find a husband instead. This didn’t stop them from heroic efforts, feeding people, burying victims, and caring for orphans-as Society leaders Richard Allen and Absalom Jones wrote afterward, “Our services were the production of real sensibility-we sought not fee nor reward.Fever, 1793 follows Matilda “Mattie” Cook, an ambitious, independent fourteen-year-old living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1793 with her widowed mother and grandfather.
This included the transformation of Bush Hill into an emergency hospital and the deployment of the Free African Society, whose members agreed to nurse needy citizens-it was thought that people of African descent couldn’t catch yellow fever, but this was quickly proven untrue. Mayor Matthew Clarkson remained in Philadelphia for the duration of the epidemic and organized a committee to deal with the crisis. The epidemic was made more perilous by inadequate medical knowledge-doctors didn’t know the origins of the disease (it’s transmitted by mosquitoes) or how best to treat it. Twenty thousand people fled the city during this time, including many prominent citizens and government officials (Philadelphia was the temporary United States capital at this time and also the third largest U.S. Philadelphia’s yellow fever epidemic killed nearly 5,000 people between August and November, 1793-nearly 10% of the city’s population. Edwards Award and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Her awards include the American Library Association’s Margaret A.
In addition to Fever 1793, she has authored a trilogy of young adult historical novels called Seeds of America. Anderson is best known for her award-winning 1999 novel, Speak, which features a teenage girl who is dealing with the aftermath of a sexual assault. Since 2004, she has been married to her childhood sweetheart, Scot Larrabee. Halse had two daughters, Stephanie and Meredith, with her first husband, Greg Anderson.
She began writing children’s and young adult novels in the 1990s. Early in her career, she worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer. She graduated from Georgetown University in 1984. As a teenager, Halse spent a year living in Denmark as an exchange student. She has enjoyed writing since second grade. She grew up in Potsdam, New York, along with her younger sister, and attended high school outside of Syracuse.
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