Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman's new novel The Bright Sword is the story of a motley group of oddball knights—and one sorceress—who are trying to rebuild Camelot in the wake of King Arthur's death. Rebecca Yarros has called it "utterly enchanting," and George R.R. Martin says: "If you love King Arthur as much as I do, you’ll love Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword." Grossman is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy—The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician’s Land—which was adapted as a TV show that ran for five seasons on Syfy. He has written two novels for children: The Silver Arrow, which was on the best-of-the-year lists of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, People, Apple and Amazon, and its sequel The Golden Swift. He wrote the screenplay for the movie The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, which was a finalist for the Critic’s Choice awards. He' also a journalist: from 2002 to 2016 he worked at Time magazine, where he wrote 20 cover stories, and he’s written essays and articles for, among others, Vanity Fair, the Believer, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Wired. Lev grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, the son of two English professors. His twin brother Austin is a writer and game designer, and his older sister Sheba is an artist. He lives in Brooklyn, New York but spends a lot of time in Sydney, Australia, too, where his wife is from. He has three children and a somehow steadily increasing number of cats.