Libba Bray

Libba Bray, born Martha Elizabeth Bray on March 11, 1964, is an American young adult author best known for the Gemma Doyle Trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing), the Michael L. Printz Award-winning Going Bovine, Beauty Queens, and The Diviners series. Raised in Texas as the daughter of a minister and an English teacher, she graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and moved to New York City, where she worked in publishing and advertising before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in New York with her husband, literary agent Barry Goldblatt, their son, and pets.

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