Cassandra Clare
Author's Comment: Most people who love to write start with a love of reading. I started writing books when I was about 12. They were all terrible and all in different genres. I wrote a terrible vampire novel and a terrible mystery novel and a terrible romance novel and a terrible Arthurian novel. Then I went to college and I took some writing classes, and I didn't really enjoy them, and I figured maybe I didn't want to be a fiction writer. After college I worked as a journalist and I also worked part-time in a children's bookstore. It was working in the children's bookstore and starting to re-read the books I'd read when I was a kid that rekindled my desire to write. I started writing again, and went through several different novel ideas before I moved to New York City from Los Angeles, which is what inspired the idea of setting a book in New York and its environs. From that, City of Bones developed.
Nationality: American
Featured series by Cassandra Clare
Magisterium (Ages 8 and up)
Bane Chronicles (Ages 14 and up)
Dark Artifices (Ages 14 and up)
Infernal Devices (Ages 14 and up)
Mortal Instruments (Ages 14 and up)
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy (Ages 14 and up)