Ann M. Martin
Children’s book author best known for The Baby-sitters Club series. I mean, not really the entire series, because after she wrote the first 35, she then got other people to write them and still got to put her name on every front cover. We feel plenty comfortable blaming Ann M. Martin for the entirety of the series however, because it was clearly all her idea. Every boring character, the entire messed-up-permanently-in-middle-school timeline and the fact that no one seems to care that these babies are out there babysitting babies.
Thank you Ann M. Martin! You shouldn’t have.