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Bio - Marie Lu


  • age group: young adult fiction 
  • Genre: dystopian, fantasy, romance, action
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     (link to her website ⇾) Marie Lu is an American novelist. The New York Times has deemed her a "hit factory". She is best known for her dystopian, militarized series, the Legend series, which was published in 2011 (in order: Legend, Prodigy,2013, Champion, 2013)(BTW, this series is awesome. And, yes, it needed to be stated). The film and television rights have been acquired by BCDF pictures with Joseph Muszynski, who was hired to write the script. There is no news about a film, though. She has also written multiple books related to this series, which consists of Life Before Legend (novella #0.5), 2013, Life After Legend (novella #3.5), 2017, and Life After Legend (novella #3.6), 2018. There are also graphic novels, which are adapted from this series, that have the same titles as the books.    
      Lu took a darker, but still brilliant, turn with her fantasy series, The Young Elites series (in order: The Young Elites, 2014, The Rose Society, 2015, The Midnight Star, 2016). In 2015 it was announced that the film rights had been sold to Fox and Temple Hill Entertainment. They are currently considering turning it into a movie. 
     In between the Legend series and The Young Elites series (which would be 2015) Lu wrote the seventh book in the Spirit Animal series, The Evertree.
     She has also written the second book in the DC Icon series, Batman: Nightwalker, which was published in 2018.
     Her latest work is the Warcross series (in order: Warcross, 2017, Wildcard, 2018). Lu has said that this series is probably the most reflective of herself considering the main character, Emika and also the setting of the story (Warcross is a video game in the book,BTW). (this duology is also awesome. You can see my review of it here.)
     Marie Lu was originally born in China and was christened Xiwei Lu. When she was five her and her family moved to Texas, which was the result of the Tiananmen square protest in China. When she graduated from college in California she entered the video game industry as an artist. She is now a full-time writer and is married to her illustrator/writer husband Primo Gallanosa and they have one Chihuahua mix, and one Pembroke Welsh corgi.  
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Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.

 - Marie Lu

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