{{Short description|American novelist and journalist}}{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}}

|2015â€“2020|2021|The Map of Tiny Perfect Things|Screenwriter|Film based on his short story Map|TBD

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Lev Grossman| image = Lev grossman 2011.jpg| image_size = 200

| caption = Grossman in 2011

1969

26{edih}| birth_place = Concord, Massachusetts, US| years_active =| relations = Austin Grossman (brother)Bathsheba Grossman (sister) | parents = Judith Grossman (mother) Allen Grossman (father) | children = 3

Lexington High School (Massachusetts)>Lexington High School| alma_mater = Harvard University Yale University| spouse = Sophie Gee

weblink}}}}Lev Grossman (born June 26, 1969) is an American novelist and journalist who wrote The Magicians Trilogy: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), and The Magician's Land (2014). He was the book critic and lead technology writer at Time magazine from 2002 to 2016.WEB,weblink Time {{!, Lev Grossman|website=Lev Grossman|language=en|access-date=2018-03-01|archive-date=April 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404085123weblink|url-status=live}} His recent work includes the children's book The Silver Arrow and the screenplay for the film The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, based on his short story.

Early life

Grossman was born on June 26, 1969, in Concord, Massachusetts."Lev Grossman" in Marquis' Who's Who on the Web [database online] Marquis Who's Who. Retrieved 2007-03-05. He is the twin brother of video game designer and novelist Austin Grossman, brother of sculptor Bathsheba Grossman, and son of the poet Allen Grossman and the novelist Judith Grossman. Grossman's father was born JewishNEWS, Yarrow, Allison Gaudet, September 6, 2011, Lev Grossman Writes Fantasy Novels Even a Grown-Up Can Love,weblink The Forward, November 18, 2019, August 3, 2020,weblink live, and his mother was raised Anglican,WEB, Patrick, Bethanne, August 16, 2011, The Writer's Life: Portrait of the Artist: Lev Grossman,weblink Shelf Awareness, November 18, 2019, August 3, 2020,weblink live, but Grossman has said, "I grew up in a very unreligious household. Very. I have no religion at all. So I come at religion as about as much of an outsider as you can be in Western civilization."WEB, Winter, Brent, March 27, 2014, 5 Questions With Lev Grossman,weblink live,weblink July 9, 2022, November 18, 2019, NC State University News, On the assumption that he was raised Jewish, he has said, "I have this extremely old-world name, and people can invite me to as many Jewish book festivals as they want to--but I wasn't raised Jewish."He is an alumnus of Lexington High School and Harvard College. He graduated from Harvard in 1991 with a degree in literature.WEB,weblink About Lev â€“ Lev Grossman, Lev Grossman, March 14, 2014, March 21, 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140321145057weblink">weblink live,

Career

Journalism

Grossman has written for The New York Times, Wired, Salon.com, Lingua Franca, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, The Wall Street Journal, and The Village Voice. He has served as a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and as the chair of the Fiction Awards Panel.WEB, Ciabattari, Jane, January 22, 2009, Lev Grossman Predictsâ€¦,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110721191610weblink">weblink 2011-07-21, 2009-04-23, "Critical Mass": National Book Critics Circle Blog, In May 2015, Grossman gave the third annual Tolkien Lecture at Pembroke College, Oxford.WEB, Gabriel, 2015-06-11, Video: Lev Grossman, 'Fear and Loathing in Aslan's Land',weblink 2022-07-09, The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature, en, May 21, 2020,weblink live, In writing for Time, he has also covered the consumer electronics industry, reporting on video games, blogs, viral videos and Web comics like Penny Arcade and Achewood. In 2006, he traveled to Japan to cover the unveiling of the Wii console.MAGAZINE, Grossman, Lev, 8 May 2006, A Game For All Ages,weblink dead, Time (magazine), Time,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060615073738weblink">weblink June 15, 2006, He has interviewed Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, Joan Didion, Jonathan Franzen, J.K. Rowling, and Johnny Cash. He wrote one of the earliest pieces on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series.MAGAZINE, Grossman, Lev, 24 April 2008, Stephenie Meyer: A New J.K. Rowling?,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080429195204weblink">weblink April 29, 2008, Time (magazine), Time, A piece written by Grossman on the game Halo 3 was criticized for casting gamers in an "unfavorable light."WEB, September 4, 2007, Time Magazine Takes Shots at Gamers with Halo 3 Article,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070907151914weblink">weblink September 7, 2007, January 31, 2008, Gaming Today, Grossman was also the author of the Time Person of the Year 2010 feature article on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.MAGAZINE, Grossman, Lev, December 15, 2010, Person Of The Year 2010,weblink dead, Time (magazine), Time,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20101219010341weblink">weblink December 19, 2010, Grossman did some freelancing and wrote for other magazines. Some of the works he wrote at this time include "The Death of a Civil Servant," "Good Novels Don't Have to be Hard," "Catalog This," "The Gay Nabokov," "When Words Fail," and "Get Smart." He freelanced at The Believer, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Salon, Lingua Franca, and Time Digital. It was soon after this that his first novel, Warp, was published.He quit his job at Time magazine in August 2016 to pursue writing full time.NEWS,weblink Transparency, Lev Grossman, 2018-03-01, en, March 1, 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180301225114weblink">weblink live,

Fiction

Lev Grossman's first novel, Warp, was published in 1997, after he moved to New York City. Warp was about "the lyrical misadventures of an aimless 20-something in Boston who has trouble distinguishing between reality and Star Trek." It received largely negative customer reviews on Amazon.com, and in response, Grossman submitted fake reviews to Amazon using false names. He then recounted these actions in an essay titled "Terrors of the Amazon".WEB, Grossman, Lev, March 2, 1999, Terrors of the Amazon,weblink 2022-07-09, Salon.com, September 27, 2017,weblink live, His second novel, Codex, was published in 2004 and became an international bestseller.In an article for The New York Times Grossman wrote: "I wrote fiction for 17 years before I found out I was a fantasy novelist. Up till then I always thought I was going to write literary fiction, like Jonathan Franzen or Zadie Smith or Jhumpa Lahiri. But I thought wrong. ... Fantasy is sometimes dismissed as childish, or escapist, but I take what I am doing very, very seriously.WEB, Grossman, Lev, August 16, 2014, Finding My Voice in Fantasy,weblink 2022-07-09, The New York Times, en, July 9, 2022,weblink live, Grossman's The Magicians was published in hardcover in August 2009 and became a bestseller. The trade paperback edition was made available on May 25, 2010. The Washington Post called it "Exuberant and inventive...Fresh and compelling...a great fairy tale."NEWS, Donohoe, Keith, August 1, 2009, Post-Harry Potter, The Spell Is Cast, The Washington Post,weblink live, August 1, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121108163503weblink">weblink November 8, 2012, The book is a dark contemporary fantasy about Quentin Coldwater, an unusually gifted young man who obsesses over Fillory, the magical land of his favorite childhood books. Unexpectedly admitted to Brakebills, a secret, exclusive college of magic in upstate New York (an amalgam of Bannerman's Castle and Olana), Quentin receives an education in the craft of modern sorcery. After graduation, he and his friends discover that Fillory is real.WEB,weblink Used, New, and Out of Print Books â€“ We Buy and Sell â€“ Powell's Books, Carlo Rovelli, August 17, 2009, July 31, 2009,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090731222508weblink">weblink live, Michael Agger of The New York Times said the book "could crudely be labeled a Harry Potter for adults," injecting mature themes into fantasy literature.NEWS, Agger, Michael, September 13, 2009, Abracadabra Angst, The New York Times,weblink 24 June 2011, March 27, 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170327030331weblink">weblink live, The Magicians won the 2010 Alex Award, given to ten adult books that are appealing to young adults, and the 2011 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.{{Citation|title=2011 Hugo Awards |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2011-hugo-awards/ |year=2012 |access-date=2012-09-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504165131weblink |archive-date=2012-05-04 }}In August 2011, The Magician King, the sequel to The Magicians, was published, which returns readers to the magical land of Fillory, where Quentin and his friends are now kings and queens. The Chicago Tribune said The Magician King was "The Catcher in the Rye for devotees of alternative universes" and that "Grossman has created a rare, strange and scintillating novel."NEWS, Keller, Julia, August 12, 2011, At Summer's End, Adventure, Chicago Tribune,weblink September 23, 2011, December 21, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111221072852weblink">weblink live, It was an Editor's Choice pick of The New York Times, who called it "[A] serious, heartfelt novel [that] turns the machinery of fantasy inside out."NEWS, Kois, Dan, August 26, 2011, Further Adventures of a Magician from Brooklyn, The New York Times,weblink September 23, 2011, September 1, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110901180528weblink">weblink live, The Boston Globe said "The Magician King is a rare achievement, a book that simultaneously criticizes and celebrates our deep desire for fantasy."NEWS, Domestico, Anthony, August 9, 2011, A teen-turned-king finds his way in dark fantasy world, The Boston Globe,weblink dead, September 23, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110829041545weblink">weblink August 29, 2011, The third book in the series is titled The Magician's LandWEB,weblink Stepping Away from the Vehicle, Lev Grossman, September 9, 2013, November 13, 2013, November 13, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131113204916weblink">weblink live, NEWS, St. James, Emily, 10 August 2011, Review: The Magician King, The A.V. Club,weblink November 13, 2013, November 13, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131113170446weblink">weblink live, and was published on 5 August 2014.NEWS,weblink Lev Grossman â€“ The Magicians Land cover art and synopsis, Upcoming4.me, 26 November 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131202224738weblink">weblink 2 December 2013, In September 2016, Grossman announced that he was working on a King Arthur novel called The Bright Sword.WEB, Liptak, Andrew, 2016-09-28, Lev Grossman will reimagine King Arthur's legacy in The Bright Sword,weblink 2017-03-03, The Verge, September 27, 2017,weblink live, {{update inline|date=May 2023}}In July 2019, Grossman, with co-writer Lilah Sturges and illustrator Pius Bak, released The Magicians: Alice's Story, a graphic novel told from the perspective of Alice, a secondary character from the book series.Grossman's first children's book, The Silver Arrow, was published in September 2020. It debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list on September 27, 2020.WEB, 2020-09-27, Children's Middle Grade Hardcover Books â€“ Best Sellers â€“ Sept. 27, 2020 â€“ The New York Times,weblink 2020-10-20, The New York Times Best Seller list, May 5, 2021,weblink live, The Golden Swift, its sequel, was published on May 3, 2022.

Film and television

Grossman's Magicians trilogy was adapted for television by Sera Gamble and John McNamara for Syfy. The series received five seasons and aired from December 2015 to April 2020.Grossman wrote the screenplay for the film The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, based on his short story of the same name. The film was released through Amazon Prime Video on February 12, 2021.WEB, Fox, Sarah, January 14, 2021, Kathryn Newton's 'The Map of Tiny Perfect Things' Sets February Release,weblink live,weblink January 28, 2021, February 8, 2021, Slanted,

Personal life

Grossman lives in Clinton Hill, BrooklynWEB, Sierra, Jeremiah, August 13, 2015, Local Author Lev Grossman On Escaping Brooklyn Without Leaving It,weblink 24 February 2019, Bklyner, February 24, 2019,weblink live, with his wife and children.WEB,weblink Benedictus: Thoughts on Being a Writer and Having Children, Lev Grossman, September 16, 2012, August 27, 2013, November 4, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131104220303weblink">weblink live, Grossman, Lev (June 28, 2010). "The Flight of the Halcyon: Or, I Had a Baby" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927111744weblink |date=September 27, 2017 }}. Lev Grossman. Grossman is a self-professed atheist."The Dying and Reviving God" Lev Grossman Blogweblink {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709194608weblink |date=July 9, 2022 }}

Bibliography

Warp, New York: St. Martin's Griffin/Macmillan, 1997. {{ISBN|978-0-312-17059-2}}
Codex, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. {{ISBN|978-0-15-101066-0}}
The Magicians, New York: Viking/Penguin, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-670-02055-3}} (hardcover); Plume/Penguin, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-452-29629-9}} (trade paperback)
The Magician King (novel), New York: Viking/Penguin, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-670-02231-1}}
The Magician's Land (novel), New York: Viking/Penguin/PRH, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-670-01567-2}}
The Magicians: Alice's Story (graphic novel) (with Lilah Sturges), Archala, 2019. {{ISBN|978-1-684-15021-2}}
The Magicians 1 (comic) (with Lilah Sturges), BOOM! â€“ Archaia, 2019 {{ASIN|B07ZL5CK1F}}
The Magicians 2 (comic) (with Lilah Sturges), BOOM! â€“ Archaia, 2019 {{ASIN|B07ZL52X49}}
The Magicians 3 (comic) (with Lilah Sturges), BOOM! â€“ Archaia, 2020 {{ASIN|B083C4SLZW}}
The Magicians 4 (comic) (with Lilah Sturges), BOOM! â€“ Archaia, 2020 {{ASIN|B083C5F5TG}}
The Silver Arrow, Little, Brown, 2020. {{ISBN|978-0-316-54170-1}}
The Golden Swift, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2022. {{isbn|9780316283861}}

Filmography

Film and TV {| class"wikitable"

! Year! Title!Role! Notes

The Magicians (American TV series)>The Magicians|Series consultant|TV series based on his series The Magicians

AGBO>The Heavens|Story by|In development with the Russo brothers

Other credits

(Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously) (2016); as himself
High Life (2018); special thanks

References

External links

{{official website }}
Magicians series
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WEB,weblink Interview at Fantasy Literature, FantasyLiterature.com, Kate, Lechler, October 21, 2014,

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