Background
Justin Cronin was born in 1962 in New York state, United States. His family was from Massachusetts. His father worked in White Plains.
2010
New York City, New York, United States
Justin Cronin signing books for fans at BookExpo America in New York City on May 27, 2010.
2014
Justin Cronin, educator, novelist, writer, author.
2014
Justin Cronin leads a master class for Rollins students.
2016
Justin Cronin, educator, novelist, writer, author.
2016
Justin Cronin, educator, novelist, writer, author.
2019
Justin Cronin, educator, novelist, writer, author.
Justin Cronin, educator, novelist, writer, author.
Justin Cronin, educator, novelist, writer, author.
Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Justin Cronin received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University.
Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
Justin Cronin received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa.
(Mary and O'Neil: They are like any other couple. They hav...)
Mary and O'Neil: They are like any other couple. They have survived loss and found love and managed the occasional hard-earned laugh as they move toward the future, hearts thick with hope. Each human life is ever-changing, born of moments large and small - births and deaths and weddings, grave mistakes and chance encounters and acts of surprising courage - and in this unforgettable book, Justin Cronin makes vivid how those moments connect us all, making us more than we could ever be on our own.
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2001
(With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative p...)
With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Justin Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man's last wish into a rich tapestry of family love. On an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainwright, nearing the end of his life, arrives at a rustic fishing camp in a remote area of Maine. He comes bearing two things: his wish for a day of fishing in a place that has brought him solace for thirty years, and an astonishing bequest that will forever change the lives of those around him. From the battlefields of Italy to the turbulence of the Vietnam era, to the private battles of love and family, The Summer Guest reveals the full history of this final pilgrimage and its meaning for four people.
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2004
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The Passage is the first book of The Passage Trilogy. An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy - abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape - but he can't stop society's collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.
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2010
(The Twelve is the second book of The Passage Trilogy. In ...)
The Twelve is the second book of The Passage Trilogy. In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child's arrival even as society dissolves around her. Kittridge, known to the world as "Last Stand in Denver," has been forced to flee his stronghold and is now on the road, dodging the infected, armed but alone and well aware that a tank of gas will get him only so far. April is a teenager fighting to guide her little brother safely through a landscape of death and ruin. These three will learn that they have not been fully abandoned - and that in connection lies hope, even on the darkest of nights. One hundred years in the future, Amy and the others fight on for humankind's salvation, unaware that the rules have changed. The enemy has evolved, and a dark new order has arisen with a vision of the future infinitely more horrifying than man's extinction. If the Twelve are to fall, one of those united to vanquish them will have to pay the ultimate price.
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2012
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The City of Mirrors is the third book of The Passage Trilogy. As the bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale, Justin Cronin's band of hardened survivors await the second coming of unspeakable darkness. The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew - and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy - humanity's only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him. One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate.
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Justin Cronin was born in 1962 in New York state, United States. His family was from Massachusetts. His father worked in White Plains.
Justin Cronin went to school in Westchester County, north of New York City. He attended Andover and Harvard University, where he got a C-plus in a creative writing class, one of the worst grades of his college career. But there was still something about writing, or maybe just the idea of being a writer, that intrigued him. When his sister gave him a copy of one of the Best American Short Stories volumes, he noticed that many of the authors had attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop. That was good enough for Cronin. At Iowa, Cronin started to figure out what kind of writer he wanted to be. "I was not conforming to the dominant paradigm of the moment," - he said, which was mostly very short stories "written with despair." Rather, he wanted to write the kinds of books that turned him into a reader as a child. "All the books that made me want to be a writer, in hindsight, were the ones with the big plots: big stories, people in trouble, running from bad things." Justin Cronin received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1984; a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1989.
For a couple of years, Justin Cronin was a high school teacher. He worked at the University of Memphis as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English in 1990-1991. He was an Associate Professor of English at La Salle University in 1992-2003. He has begun the career at Rice University as an Associate Professor of English (2003-2007), then becoming a Professor of English (2007-2009) and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Humanities (2012-2016). He is a Writer In Residence since 2016.
He was a co-producer of "The Passage" thriller television series based on his book trilogy. The seed of the idea for The Passage Trilogy came from his daughter, who was 8 at the time and asked him to write a story about a girl who would save the world. With The Passage, Cronin wanted to do something on a massive, genre-bending scale but still focus on the lives of everyday people, as well as draw on everything he'd learned as an artist, a husband, and a father.
In 2010, Justin Cronin's book The Passage was a phenomenon. The unforgettable tale that critics and readers compared to the novels of Cormac McCarthy, Michael Crichton, Stephen King, and Margaret Atwood became a runaway bestseller and enchanted readers around the globe. It spent 3 months on The New York Times bestseller list. It was featured on more than a dozen "Best of the Year" lists, including Time's "Top 10 Fiction of 2010," NPR's "Year's Most Transporting Books," and Esquire's "Best & Brightest of 2010." It was the number-one Indie Next Selection. It sold in over 40 countries and became a bestseller in many of them. Stephen King called The Passage "enthralling...read this book and the ordinary world disappears." He also received several awards for his books.
(With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative p...)
2004(The City of Mirrors is the third book of The Passage Tril...)
(The Passage is the first book of The Passage Trilogy. An ...)
2010(The Twelve is the second book of The Passage Trilogy. In ...)
2012(Mary and O'Neil: They are like any other couple. They hav...)
2001For Justin Cronin, writing is a reflection of living, which makes it a marathon, not a sprint. "You just need to have some mileage on your odometer," - he said.
Quotations: "Don't reach over your head at the start. Write a book that someone would want to read, period. You'll get better, and you'll know more, and your fiction will become richer. But don't say "I want to write Chekhov" when you're 20 years old. You can't."
Justin Cronin doesn't have so many favorite writers, as he has favorite books, ones that have helped him in the formulation of his own. For instance, The Passage drew a great deal of thought and energy from Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. The Twelve drew a lot of its thinking from George Orwell's 1984. That was a very important book in Justin Cronin's education as a writer, too.
Justin Cronin is married; he has a daughter named Iris and a son. He met his wife at the University of Iowa as she was a student there.