Marie Lu

Marie Lu
Lu in 2014
Lu in 2014
BornXiwei Lu
(1984-07-11) July 11, 1984 (age 40)
Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
Pen nameMarie Lu
OccupationNovelist
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
Period2011–present
GenreYoung adult fiction, Dystopian fiction
Notable works
SpousePrimo Gallanosa
Children1

Marie Lu (born 11 July 1984; birthname: Xiwei Lu, Chinese: 陸希未) is an American young adult science fiction and fantasy author. She is best known for the Legend series, novels set in a dystopian and militarized future, as well as the Young Elites series, the Warcross series, and Batman: Nightwalker in the DC Icons series.[1]

Early life

Lu was born in 1984 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, and later moved to Beijing.[2][3] In 1989, she and her family moved to the United States in Texas when she was five years old,[4] during the Tiananmen Square Protest.[5] She grew up between Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Houston, learning English by writing stories.[6] She attended the University of Southern California, where she studied political science and biology, and interned as an artist at Disney Interactive Studios.[6][7][8]

Lu currently lives in the Arts District of Los Angeles with her husband, their son (born 2019) and three dogs.[6][9]

Career

Lu's debut novel, Legend, was published November 29, 2011 as the first of a young adult science fiction trilogy. Lu has said that she was inspired by the movie Les Miserables and sought to recreate the conflict between Valjean and Javert in a teenage version.[10] Two other books in the planned trilogy, Prodigy and Champion, were published in 2013.[11]

Lu's first fantasy series began with publication of The Young Elites on October 7, 2014.[12] It was followed by The Rose Society on October 13, 2015, and The Midnight Star on October 16, 2016.

Works

Lu at BookCon in June 2019

Legend series

  • Legend (November 29, 2011)
  • Prodigy (January 8, 2013)
  • Champion (November 5, 2013)
  • Life Before Legend (Novella #0.5) (January 5, 2013)
  • Life After Legend (Novella #3.5) (2017)
  • Life After Legend II (Novella #3.6) (2018)
  • Rebel (October 1, 2019)[13]

The Young Elites series

Warcross series

Skyhunter series

  • Skyhunter (September 29, 2020)[15]
  • Steelstriker (September 28, 2021)

Stars and Smoke series

  • Stars and Smoke (March 28, 2023)[16]
  • Icon and Inferno (June 11, 2024)

DC Icons series

  • Batman: Nightwalker (DC Icons, Book 2) (January 2, 2018)

Spirit Animals series

  • The Evertree (Spirit Animals, Book 7) (March 31, 2015)

Standalone novels

  • The Kingdom of Back (March 3, 2020)[17]

Short stories

  • "The Journey" in A Tyranny of Petticoats, edited by Jessica Spotswood (March 8, 2017)
  • "Surviving"

References

  1. ^ "Marie Lu". Penguin Random House. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  2. ^ Lu, Marie. "Marie Lu (Author of Legend)". Goodreads. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  3. ^ "Prodigy: A Legend Novel Audiobook". The Audiobook Store. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  4. ^ "Marie Lu - About". Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  5. ^ "Novelist Marie Lu". PBS.org. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  6. ^ a b c del Barco, Mandalit (8 September 2017). "'Young People Who Do Extraordinary Things' Are The Norm In Marie Lu's YA World". NPR.
  7. ^ De Groot, Kate (December 19, 2011). "Fall 2011 Flying Starts: Marie Lu". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  8. ^ "Artist Profile: The Defiantly Optimistic Storytelling of Marie Lu | Arts | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
  9. ^ "Marie Lu - About". marielu.org. Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
  10. ^ Wilkinson, Amy (29 November 2011). "Marie Lu Imagines A Teenage, Dystopian 'Les Miserables' In 'Legend'". Hollywood Crush. MTV. Archived from the original on 1 January 2015.
  11. ^ "Legend the Series". Retrieved 27 September 2013.
  12. ^ "The Young Elites". Marie Lu Books. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  13. ^ Lu, Marie. "Rebel (Legend, #4) by Marie Lu". Goodreads. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  14. ^ Canfield, David (May 14, 2018). "Wildcard: Preview Marie Lu's hotly anticipated Warcross sequel". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  15. ^ "Skyhunter". Goodreads. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  16. ^ "Exclusive: Marie Lu's 'Stars and Smoke' Brings the Sparks in This Special Excerpt". Cosmopolitan. 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
  17. ^ "The Kingdom of Back". Goodreads. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
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