Leigh Bardugo
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Leigh Bardugo, an American young adult and fantasy writer best known for her Grishaverse books, including the Six of Crows duology and the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which have sold more than two million copies as well as Ninth House.
Early life
Bardugo was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1975, and she grew up in Los Angeles, California, where her grandparents were born. She is secular Jewish and of Moroccan Jewish descent on her father's side, as well as an Ashkenazi Jewish (Russian-Jewish) descent on her mother's side.
She attended Yale University, graduating with a degree in English in the spring of 1997. She belonged to the Wolf's Head clandestine group. She worked in copywriting and journalism, as well as makeup and special effects, before releasing her first book.
Personal life
Bardugo's acknowledgements section of Six of Crows indicates she suffers from osteonecrosis and occasionally needs to use a cane; this was a source of inspiration for one of the story's six protagonists, master thief and gang boss Kaz Brekker, who uses a cane.
Bardugo was a member of the band Captain Automatic from 2006 to 2007. In January 2022, she and her partner of four years eloped.
Career
Shadow and Bone, Bardugo's first book in the Grisha trilogy, was published in 2012 by Macmillan. Shadow and Bone was nominated for the Romantic Times Book Award and the South Carolina Children's Book Award, which was named an Indie Next List Book, and reviewed in The New York Times. The book debuted at number 8 on the New York Times Best Seller list, and David Heyman and DreamWorks had optioned it for film. Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising, and Rising were three other books in the trilogy, published by Macmillan in 2013 and 2014. Bardugo's Tsarpunk is a fantasy that draws on early 19th-century Russia's shadow.
Macmillan published Six of Crows (Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom) in 2015 and 2016. It is set in the same universe as the Grisha trilogy (sometimes referred to as the "Grishaverse"). Six of Crows was named a New York Times Notable Book and an ALA-YALSA Top Ten Pick of 2016. Macmillan published The Language of Thorns, a collection of Grisha fairy tales and folk tales, in 2017.
Bardugo also wrote the first book in the DC Icons series, which are novelizations of DC Comics' top superheroes; Wonder Woman: Warbringer was released by Penguin Random House in 2017.
Flatiron Books published Ninth House, Bardugo's first adult novel, in 2019. It received the Goodreads Choice Award for best fantasy book of the year.
Bardugo also has essays and short stories in anthology collections including Last Night, A Superhero Saved My Life, Slasher Girls, and Monster Boys, as well as Summer Days and Summer Nights. Her books have been translated into 22 languages and published in more than 50 countries.
Bardugo appeared on a Grishaverse panel with showrunner Heisserer at New York Comic Con in October 2020. On Goodreads, she was ranked as the sixth most influential author between 2016 and 2021.