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Holly Black

Biography

Holly Black

Holly Black is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Spiderwick Chronicles series and other contemporary fantasy novels for teens and children. Her latest work is the graphic novel series The Good Neighbors.

Born in New Jersey in 1971, Holly grew up in a decrepit Victorian house piled with books and oddments. After graduating from The College of New Jersey in 1995, Holly worked as a production editor on medical journals and attended graduate school at Rutgers University in pursuit of a Masters in Library Science. 

Her first book, TITHE: A Modern Faerie Tale, was published in 2002 and was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association. She followed this up with VALIANT, which was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Young Readers and the recipient of the Andre Norton Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, and IRONSIDE, the sequel to TITHE. 

Holly lives in a Tudor Revival house in Massachusetts with her husband, Theo, and an ever-expanding collection of books. For more information about her, please visit www.blackholly.com

Books by Holly Black

by Holly Black - Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult 14+

For Cassel Sharpe, cheating comes as easily as breathing. Despite his history --- growing up in a family of con artists and working as an assassin --- he’s trying to do the right thing. But being good is harder than he ever thought, especially after he is called on to do the one thing he said he would never do again.

edited by Holly Black and Ellen Kushner - Urban Fantasy, Young Adult 12+

Bordertown is a city on the border between our human world and the elfin realm. Here, Runaway teens come from both sides of the border to find adventure, but also to find themselves. WELCOME TO BORDERTOWN features an eclectic group of writers that have teamed up to paint the streets of Bordertown in more than twenty new interconnected songs, poems, and stories.

by Holly Black - Urban Fantasy

Being a transformation curse worker should have made Cassel’s life easier. Instead his older brother is murdered, and both the Feds and the mob have taken a special interest in the case --- and Cassel. There’s also a girl madly in love with him, but Cassel can’t trust that it’s real.

Edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier - Anthology, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror

Through short stories by many bestselling teen authors, this anthology --- edited by Holly Black (Team Unicorn) and Justine Larbalestier (Team Zombie) --- makes arguments extolling the strengths of both unicorns and zombies to determine the age old question: Which is better?

by Holly Black - Urban Fantasy

A white cat is plaguing the dreams of Cassel Sharpe. It's trying to tell him something important about his connections to curse workers --- people who can manipulate others with a touch from their hands --- and Cassel isn't ready to confront the truths that haunt his past.

written by Holly Black, illustrated by Ted Naifeh - Graphic Novel

Rue Silver's life is not what it appears to be. Her mother is a faerie, and has been taken back to the faerie realm. As Rue goes to bring her back, she must travel deep into an inhuman world. At the same time, the faerie realm is venturing into our world too, and taking its toll on those Rue loves. When her grandfather's plans threaten Rue's city, she realizes that she's the only one who can stop him. But is Rue a human or a faerie? Where does she fit? How does she know the difference between love and enchantment?

written by Holly Black, illustrated by Ted Naifeh - Graphic Novel

Rue Silver’s life isn’t at all what it appears to be; her mother has disappeared --- and her father is being blamed for her murder. Is he guilty, or is there another truth behind it all? Rue digs deeper into her family’s past and makes a startling discovery: her mother is a faerie, and she’s vanished back into the faerie realm because of a broken promise. In order to save her, Rue must defeat a dark faerie --- who threatens our very mortal world.

by Holly Black - Fantasy

IRONSIDE is Holly Black's third dark faery tale and the second to feature Kaye, a changeling pixie who grew up thinking she was a human girl. Torn between her faery lover Roiben and the human world she knows, the book finds Kaye struggling to maintain her human identity while embracing her faerie destiny.

by Holly Black - Fantasy

Kaye travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces the sixteen-year-old back to her childhood home in New Jersey. There, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms --- a struggle that could very well mean her death.