Her works have been translated into 50 languages, with over five million copies sold in English alone, and have a large fan following.īardugo has osteonecrosis, a painful and mobility-limiting condition that occurs when blood is cut off from bones, and sometimes walks with a cane (much like Kaz Brekker, as she points out in the acknowledgments of Six of Crows). Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo Author Wondering where to start Click here for the Grishaverse Reading Order. Shadow and Bone (2012) and Six of Crows (2015) have been adapted into a television series by Netflix, and Ninth House will be adapted by Amazon Studios. She worked as a journalist, make-up artist, movie trailer writer, and transcriber, among other jobs before becoming a successful author. Leigh has worked in advertising, journalism, makeup and special effects. Bardugo was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Los Angeles. She writes the Grisha series and is both a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Bardugo describes reading and writing-fantasy in particular-as a “survival strategy” and cites early influences that include Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Octavia Butler, Diana Wynne Jones, and Stephen King. Leigh Bardugo is an American author of YA fantasy novels. She graduated with a degree in English from Yale University, where she was a member of the Wolf’s Head secret society.

She is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and her short stories can be found in multiple anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (2017).īorn in Jerusalem in 1975, Bardugo was raised in Southern California. Leigh Bardugo is an Israeli-American author and short story writer, best known for her Grishaverse novels (including the Six of Crows Duology, the Shadow and Bone Trilogy, The King of Scars Duology, and The Language of Thorns) and her adult fantasy novel Ninth House. Writing Career In 2012 she released her first book, which was titled Shadow and Bone, and it was to be part of the ongoing Grisha Trilogy.

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