- 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 apreacher and her mother, ateacher . 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 aTheatre major. As a buddingplaywright , she felt it important to be inNew York . When her childhood best friend, already living inManhattan , 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 ofPenguin 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 atSimon & Schuster . Before this, using apseudonym , 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 andCassandra 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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