Marie Lu
Marie Lu | |
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 Lu in 2014 | |
| Born | Xiwei Lu July 11, 1984 Wuxi, Jiangsu, China |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 2011–present |
| Genre | Young adult fiction, Dystopian fiction |
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Marie Lu (born Xiwei Lu) is an American young adult 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 attended the University of Southern California and interned at Disney Interactive Studios.[6]
Lu lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband, their son (born 2019) and dogs.[7]
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)[8]
The Young Elites series[]
- The Young Elites (October 7, 2014)
- The Rose Society (October 13, 2015)
- The Midnight Star (October 16, 2016)
Warcross series[]
- Warcross (September 12, 2017)
- Wildcard (September 18, 2018)[9]
Skyhunter series[]
- Skyhunter (September 29, 2020)[10]
- Steelstriker (Expected publication September 28, 2021)
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)[11]
References[]
- ^ "Marie Lu". Penguin Random House. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ^ Lu, Marie. "Marie Lu (Author of Legend)". Goodreads. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- ^ "Prodigy: A Legend Novel Audiobook". The Audiobook Store. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- ^ "Marie Lu - About". Retrieved February 19, 2014.
- ^ "Novelist Marie Lu". PBS.org. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
- ^ De Groot, Kate (December 19, 2011). "Fall 2011 Flying Starts: Marie Lu". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
- ^ "Marie Lu - About". marielu.org. Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
- ^ Lu, Marie. "Rebel (Legend, #4) by Marie Lu". Goodreads. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ^ Canfield, David (May 14, 2018). "Wildcard: Preview Marie Lu's hotly anticipated Warcross sequel". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
- ^ "Skyhunter". Goodreads. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "The Kingdom of Back". Goodreads. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
External links[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marie Lu. |
- Author's Website
- Ridley Pearson in The New York Times Book Review on Legend
- The Los Angeles Times on Prodigy
- Marie Lu at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Categories:
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Writers from Wuxi
- 21st-century American novelists
- American young adult novelists
- American women novelists
- Women writers of young adult literature
- American writers of Chinese descent
- University of Southern California alumni
- Writers of young adult science fiction
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- 21st-century American women writers