[1] Her science fiction works often concern issues of paranoia or questions of identity.
One of her most famous teen novels in this genre, Anna to the Infinite Power (1981), was turned into a motion picture with the same name in 1982.
[2] Ames was born in Bridgeport, CT, the daughter of Edward and Amelia (Miller) Walsh.
Prior to writing professionally, Ames worked as a milliner, a sales person, and a telephone operator.
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