Libba Bray (born Martha E. Bray on March 11, 1964 in Alabama) is an author of young adult novels, including the books A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing. Alabama (formally the State of Alabama;) is a State located in the southern region of the United States of America. A Great and Terrible Beauty is the first novel in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray. Rebel Angels is the second book in a fantasy trilogy by Libba Bray. The Sweet Far Thing is a novel by Libba Bray that was released on December 26, 2007.
She lived in Texas until she was 26 years old. After that she moved to New York City, New York, where she now lives with her husband and nine-year-old son. The City of New York Her father was a preacher and her mother, a teacher. Preacher is a term the for someone who preaches Sermons or gives homilies In Education, a teacher is one who helps Students or pupils often in a School, as well as in a Family, religious or In her autobiography on her official site she states:
| “ | My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P. K. s-Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. Be very afraid. . . | ” |
Biography
At the age of eighteen, Bray was involved in a serious car accident and had to undergo thirteen surgeries in six years to reconstruct her face. She has an artificial left eye due to this accident. [1]
Bray graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988 as a Theatre major. Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one As a budding playwright, she felt it important to be in New York. A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous When her childhood best friend, already living in Manhattan, called saying she was looking for a roommate, Bray was soon on her way to New York. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York Her first job was in the publicity department of Penguin Putnam, followed by three years at Spier, an advertising agency specializing in book advertising. Penguin Group is the second largest trade book Publisher in the world behind Random House.
Bray was encouraged to write a young adult novel by her husband, Barry Goldblatt, a children's book agent and Ginee Seo, an editor at Simon & Schuster. Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 Simon & Schuster Inc, a division of CBS Corporation, is a Publisher founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L Before this, using a pseudonym, she had written three books for 17th Street Press (a publisher of romances). A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias)
Her first novel, A Great and Terrible Beauty became a New York Times bestseller. A Great and Terrible Beauty is the first novel in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray. The New York Times Best Seller List is widely considered to be the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. In November 2006, a video promoting the book was a part of The Book Standard's Teen Book Video Awards. [2]
Bray is good friends with fellow YA fantasy authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare; all of them are represented by Bray's husband, a literary agent. Holly Black née Riggenbach in 1971 and during her early years her family lived in a "decrepit Victorian house" Cassandra Clare is the pseudonym of the bestselling Author of the young adult trilogy The Mortal Instruments. Her blog can be read on www. livejournal. com.
Bray is currently working on a new novel titled Going Bovine which is a dark comedy about a 16 year old boy named Cameron who has mad cow disease, a 16 year dwarf named Gonzo who he met in the hospital. Gonzo is a video gamer who thinks that everything is trying to kill him. Cameron has visitation from a punkish angel named Dulcie who has a propensity for spray-painting her wings. They are all on a mission to get to Disneyworld.
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3. http://libba-bray.livejournal.com/32980.html
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