About Lev

Lev Grossman is best known as the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy—The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician’s Land—which was adapted as a TV show that ran for five seasons on Syfy.

He’s also written two novels for children: The Silver Arrow, which the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, People magazine, Apple and Amazon all put on their best-of-the-year lists, and its sequel The Golden Swift. He wrote the screenplay for the movie The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, which was a finalist for the Critic’s Choice awards.

Lev is also a journalist: from 2002 to 2016 he worked as a staff writer at Time magazine, where he wrote 20-or-so cover stories, and he’s written essays and articles for Vanity Fair, the Believer, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Salon, Slate, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, the Week, Buzzfeed, NPR, Lingua Franca, and many other places. He regularly gives talks and workshops at festivals and colleges and has served on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, Electric Literature, and the Harvard Advocate. In 2018 he was the Mary Higgins Clark Chair in Creative Writing at Fordham College.

Lev grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, the son of two English professors. His twin brother Austin is a writer and game designer, and his older sister Sheba is an artist. He lives in Brooklyn, New York but spends a lot of time in Sydney, Australia, too, where his wife is from. He has three children and a somehow steadily increasing number of cats.