Libba Bray

Libba Bray

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She lived in Texas until she was 26 years old. After that she moved to New York City, New York, where she now lives with her husband and nine-year-old son. Her father was a preacher and her mother, a teacher. In her autobiography on her official site she states:

Biography

At the age of eighteen, Bray was involved in a serious car accident and had to undergo thirteen surgeries in six years to reconstruct her face. She has an artificial left eye due to this accident. [ [http://www.libbabray.com/LBAutobiography.html Libba Bray's Accident at 18] ]

Bray graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988 as a Theatre major. As a budding playwright, she felt it important to be in New York. When her childhood best friend, already living in Manhattan, called saying she was looking for a roommate, Bray was soon on her way to New York. Her first job was in the publicity department of Penguin Putnam, followed by three years at Spier, an advertising agency specializing in book advertising.

Bray was encouraged to write a young adult novel by her husband, Barry Goldblatt, a children's book agent and Ginee Seo, an editor at Simon & Schuster. Before this, using a pseudonym, she had written three books for 17th Street Press (a publisher of romances).

Her first novel, "A Great and Terrible Beauty" became a "New York Times" bestseller. In November 2006, a video promoting the book was a part of The Book Standard's Teen Book Video Awards. [ [http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003439349 Teen Book Video Awards Debut Tonight] ]

Bray is good friends with fellow YA fantasy authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare; all of them are represented by Bray's husband, a literary agent. Her blog can be read on www.livejournal.com.

Bray is currently working on a new novel titled Going Bovine which is a dark comedy about a 16 year old boy named Cameron who has mad cow disease, a 16 year dwarf named Gonzo who he met in the hospital. Gonzo is a video gamer who thinks that everything is trying to kill him. Cameron has visitation from a punkish angel named Dulcie who has a propensity for spray-painting her wings. They are all on a mission to get to Disneyworld.

ources

3. http://libba-bray.livejournal.com/32980.html

External links

* [http://www.libbabray.com/ Official Site]
* [http://libba-bray.livejournal.com/ Live Journal]
* [http://www.booktrailerpark.com/book_trailerpark/2006/12/social_networki.html Book Video for "A Great and Terrible Beauty"]


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