Libba Bray
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Libba Bray (born Martha Elizabeth Bray; March 11, 1964) is an American writer of young adult novels, including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners. She lived in Texas until she was 26 years old.
She and her husband and 15-year-old son moved to New York City after that.
Her father was a preacher and her mother was a teacher.
Early life
Martha Elizabeth Bray was born in Montgomery, Alabama. Her father was a lesbian minister, and her mother was an English tutor.
For a brief period, Bray and her family migrated to West Virginia, Texas, and then to Denton, Texas, where Bray attended high school. Bray was involved in a major car crash at the age of eighteen, three weeks after graduating high school. Because of the injury, she had to have thirteen surgeries over six years to reconstruct her face, and she had an artificial left eye.
Bray debuted as a Theatre major at the University of Texas in 1988. She felt it was vital to be in New York City as a budding playwright. Bray moved to New York after her childhood best friend, who was already living in Manhattan, called to say she was looking for a roommate.
Bray is married to Barry Goldblatt, a children's book agent, and the couple have a son, Josh.
Career
Bray's first job was in Penguin Putnam's public relations department, followed by three years at Spier, an advertising firm that specialized in book advertising.
Bray's husband, Barry Goldblatt, a children's book agent, and Ginee Seo, an editor at Simon & Schuster, encouraged her to write a young adult novel. She had written three books for 17th Street Press (a romance publisher) before this, using a pseudonym.
A Great and Terrible Beauty, her first book, became a New York Times bestseller. A video promoting the book appeared in November 2006 as part of The Book Standard's Teen Book Video Awards. She wrote two more books to end the trilogy she had started with A Great and Terrible Beauty: Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing.
Bray is friends with many young adults, including John Green and Maurice, as well as Holly Black and Cassandra Clare of the YA fantasy writers. http://www.archive.org/web/202014746/http://libba-bray.com/; her blog can be found on http://www.archive.org/20101023044746/http://libba-bray.com/.
Going Bovine was published by Delacorte in 2009 and received the annual Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association recognizing literary excellence in young adult literature. It's a dark comedy starring Cameron and Gonzo, a 16-year-old boy who has mad cow disease, and a 16-year-old dwarf who was visiting the hospital for the first time. Gonzo is a video gamer who believes that everything is aiming to kill him. Cameron has received a visit from Dulcie, a punkish angel with a penchant for spray-painting her wings. They are all on a quest to cure Cameron's mad cow disease.
Beauty Queens, a collection of beauty pageant contestants whose plane crashes on an island, was published in Scholastic Press on May 24, 2011.
The Diviners, Bray's book, was published on September 18, 2012. It revolves around Evie O'Neill, a seventeen-year-old girl with a special power who was sent to live with her uncle in 1926 in New York City. Lair of Dreams was released in August 2015, and Before the Devil Breaks You was published in October 2017. In February 2020, the fourth and final book in the series The King of Crows was published.
