Career
She is best known for the Legend series, novels set in a dystopian and militarized future. The novels form the basis of a movie to be produced by Columbia Broadcasting System Films and directed by Jonathan Levine. Early Tiananmen Square Protest
Marie Lu came to the United States when she was 5 years old, during the time of the Tiananmen Square Protest.
Before arriving to the United States., she remembers sucking on a popsicle and observing the people as they gathered around to protest.
Lu was born in 1984, in Wuxi, China. By the age of 5, she and her family moved to the United States in Georgia in 1989.
She attended the University of Southern California and interned at Disney Interactive Studios. Before writing her first book, Lu worked as an art designer for the video game industry.
Personal Marie Lu is currently living in Pasadena, California.
She has pushed art designing aside to have more time for her writing. Writing in The New York Times, critic and author Ridley Pearson wrote of Legend, "Overpackaged, overhyped first novels are done a disservice by their publishers, with untested authors expected somehow to justify all the gloss and glitter of a full-bore prepublication promotional blitz. Too many just don"t merit the attention.