“It's a wonderful sort of feeling
when people want to spend more time in a world you created.” – Erin
Morgenstern
Born on July 8, 1978
Morgenstern got her writing career started with a bang with The
Night Circus, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel. The book – which was rejected by 30
publishers before being accepted – spent 17 weeks atop the New York
Times bestseller list and now has
been published in more than a dozen languages.
She wrote the book, favorably
compared to the Harry Potter books and works by Ray Bradbury.
as a participant in “National Novel Writing Month” (November), where you
pledge to write at least a 50,000-word novel in less than 30
days. She continues to participate in novel-writing month, her
latest book being The Starless Sea.
A graduate of Smith College, where
she studied both theater and studio art, she also dabbled in magic – something
that set the stage for Night Circus.
“I am a fan of magic and fantasy,
particularly when it's grounded in reality,” she said. “I like the
idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that
it was just a trick; that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that,
like, feeling at the back of your mind: 'What if it's not?'”
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