Libba Bray (born March 11, 1964), American novelist, writer

Libba Bray

March 11, 1964

Texas, United States of America

She lived in Texas until she was 26 years old. In her autobiography on her official site she states: 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. As a budding playwright, she felt it important to be in New 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 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. 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. She wrote two more books to finish the trilogy she had started with A Great and Terrible Beauty: Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing. Her blog can be read on. lieutenant is a dark comedy about a 16-year-old boy named Cameron who has mad cow disease and a 16-year-old dwarf named Gonzo whom 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 cure Cameron"s mad cow disease. Beauty Queens, about a group of beauty pageant contestants whose plane crashes on an island, was published by Scholastic Press on May 24, 2011. Bray"s newest novel, The Diviners, was published on September 18, 2012. The sequel, Lair of Dreams, was released in August 2015.