Background
He was born in San Francisco in 1982 but grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.
He was born in San Francisco in 1982 but grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.
He attended Columbia University where he majored in English Literature and spent his junior year abroad in the University"s Oxford/Cambridge Scholars program
After college he became a teacher at Saint Ann"s School in Brooklyn. He credits a stint as a substitute librarian as the inspiration for writing The Grimm Trilogy.