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Pen Name
Fogleman chose the pen name "Ally Carter" to distinguish the books she would write under that name from her other literary work. The last name "Carter" was specifically selected so that her novels would be near those of her fellow adult fiction novelist Jennifer Crusie on bookstore and library shelves.

Education and Beginnings
Carter graduated with a degree for agricultural economics at Oklahoma State University in 1997 and earned her M.A. at Cornell University for Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. In her free time, she began her work as an author of two adult novels, Cheating at Solitaire, published on December 6, 2005, and Learning to Play Gin, which was subsequently released on November 7, 2006. She then began her career as a young-adult novelist with the Gallagher Girls series and later developed the Heist Society series along with various novellas based on these two series'.

The Gallagher Girls series
Carter's first young-adult novel was I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, the story of a girl who goes to a prestigious spy school and falls for a normal boy who has no idea who she really is. It was selected as a Texas Lone Star reading list book for 2007-2008.

The sequel to I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, titled Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy was released on October 2, 2007 in the United States of America. It chronicles the second semester of Cammie Morgan's sophomore year and her self-assigned mission against the boys who have moved into her school. Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy was on The New York Times Best Seller list for ten weeks. The first two books in the series were released in the UK with a different cover and website.

The third book of the Gallagher Girls series, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover, is about Cammie's junior year where a mysterious organization seems to be trying to kidnap or kill Cammie's friend Macey.

The fourth book of the Gallagher Girls series, Only the Good Spy Young, is about the aftermath of Cammie discovering that the Circle of Cavan is after her, and the discovery of her father's journal in Sublevel Two.

The fifth book of the Gallagher Girls series, Out of Sight, Out of Time was released on March 13, 2012.

Double Crossed a Spies and Thieves Story, a Gallagher Girls and Heist Society novella, depicting the point of view of Cammie's friend Macey between book's two and three of the Heist Society series. This title was released on January 22, 2020 as an eBook.

The sixth and final book of the Gallagher Girls series, United We Spy, was published on September 24, 2013, detailing Cammie's final semester at the Gallagher Academy as she takes down the Circle of Cavan.

The Heist Society series
Carters's first young-adult book separate from the Gallagher Girls series is the start of a new young-adult series, Heist Society, about a girl named Katerina or Kat for short whose family business is thievery. Kat's father is suspected to have stolen a mafia group boss's paintings. The only way Kat can save her father is by finding who stole them and stealing them back. It was released February 9, 2010.

The second Heist Society book called Uncommon Criminals was released on June 21,2011.

The third book in the Heist Society series, Perfect Scoundrels, was released on February 5, 2013.

Double Crossed a Spies and Thieves Story is also considered a Heist Society novella as well as a part of the Gallagher Girls series.

The Embassy Row trilogy
The first book of the Embassy Row trilogy, titled All Fall Down, was published January 20, 2015. All Fall Down is a novel that challenges normative thinking about a girl named Grace Blakley who is forced to live with her grandfather on Embassy Row in Valancia after the secretive death of her mother.

On December 22, 2015, Ally Carter released the second book in the Embassy Row trilogy, See How They Run.

The third and final book of the Embassy Row trilogy is called Take the Key and Lock Her Up. This novel was released on December 27, 2016.

Introduction to Middle Grades Literature
Ally Carter officially released her first Middle Grades book on March 3, 2020 called Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valore. It tells a story about a young girl named April who must unravel the mysteries left by her mother and the Winterborne household while struggling to find help in a world that left her an orphan.