Holly Black Biography

By namya

Holly Black is a 51-year-old American writer born on November 10th,

1971. She is best known for her children's books, young adult fiction
and The Spiderwick Chronicles. Her most recent work was The Folk of
the Air series. Holly Black has won several awards, including: an
Eisner award, which is a shortened version of The Will Eisner Comic
Industry Award, given to those with a creative achievement in American
comic books; a Lodestar award, an award annually given to a book
published for young adult readers in the field of science fiction or
fantasy; a Nebula award, an award annually given to authors when
recognized for the best works of science fiction or fantasy in the US;
and a Newbery honor, a shortened version of The John Newbery medal,
which is an award given by the Association for Library Service to
Children to encourage original creative work in the field of books for
children.
Holly Black graduated from Shore Regional High School in 1990 and
graduated from The College of New Jersey with a B.A. in English and
later worked as a production editor on medical journals while studying
at Rutgers University. She edited and contributed to the role-playing
culture magazine d8 in 1996. Holly Black considered becoming a
librarian as a backup career at first, but writing drew her away. The
first novel Black wrote was titled Tithe; A Modern Faerie Tale, which
was published by Simon & Schuster in 2002. She then collaborated with
the artist Tony DiTerlizzi and published the first two books of The
Spiderwick Chronicles in 2003 and published the first novel in her
Curse Workers Series, White Cat, in 2010 which was then followed by
Red Glove, published in 2011. In 2012, Scholastic acquired a five-book
series by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, named Magisterium. Its
first novel, The Iron Trial, was published on September 9th, 2014,
while the last was published in 2018. Before publishing the last book
in her Magisterium Series, she published the first novel in her The
Folk of The Air series, titled The Cruel Prince. The Cruel Prince was
critically acclaimed and nominated for the Locus Award and the
Lodestar award and the next book in the series titled The Wicked King,
published in 2018, debuted at #1 position of the New York Times
Bestseller award and was also nominated for the Lodestar award.