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Libba Bray
Martha Elizabeth "Libba" Bray (March 11, 1964) is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, Beauty Queens, The Diviners series, and Under the Same Stars.
Martha Elizabeth Bray was born in Montgomery, Alabama. Her father was a gay Presbyterian minister, and her mother was an English teacher.
She and her family moved to West Virginia for a brief period, then to Corpus Christi, Texas, and finally to Denton, Texas, where Bray attended high school. At the age of eighteen, three weeks after graduating high school, Bray was involved in a serious car accident. She had to undergo thirteen surgeries over six years to reconstruct her face, and has an artificial left eye because of the accident.
Bray graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988 as a theater major. When her childhood best friend, who was living in Manhattan, called saying she was looking for a roommate, Bray moved to New York City.
Bray was married to Barry Goldblatt, a children's book agent, with whom she shares a son, Josh.
Bray's first job was in the publicity department of Penguin Putnam, followed by three years at Spier, an agency specializing in book advertising.
Bray was encouraged to write a young adult novel by her husband, 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.[clarification needed]
Her first novel, A Great and Terrible Beauty, became a New York Times bestseller.[citation needed] In November 2006, a video promoting the book was a part of The Book Standard's Teen Book Video Awards. She wrote two more books to finish the Gemma Doyle Trilogy: Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing.
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Libba Bray
Martha Elizabeth "Libba" Bray (March 11, 1964) is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, Beauty Queens, The Diviners series, and Under the Same Stars.
Martha Elizabeth Bray was born in Montgomery, Alabama. Her father was a gay Presbyterian minister, and her mother was an English teacher.
She and her family moved to West Virginia for a brief period, then to Corpus Christi, Texas, and finally to Denton, Texas, where Bray attended high school. At the age of eighteen, three weeks after graduating high school, Bray was involved in a serious car accident. She had to undergo thirteen surgeries over six years to reconstruct her face, and has an artificial left eye because of the accident.
Bray graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988 as a theater major. When her childhood best friend, who was living in Manhattan, called saying she was looking for a roommate, Bray moved to New York City.
Bray was married to Barry Goldblatt, a children's book agent, with whom she shares a son, Josh.
Bray's first job was in the publicity department of Penguin Putnam, followed by three years at Spier, an agency specializing in book advertising.
Bray was encouraged to write a young adult novel by her husband, 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.[clarification needed]
Her first novel, A Great and Terrible Beauty, became a New York Times bestseller.[citation needed] In November 2006, a video promoting the book was a part of The Book Standard's Teen Book Video Awards. She wrote two more books to finish the Gemma Doyle Trilogy: Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing.
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