Marie Lu

"I write young adult novels, and have a special love for dystopian books. Ironically, I was born in 1984. Before becoming a full-time writer, I was an Art Director at a video game company. Now I shuffle around at home and talk to myself a lot. :)

I graduated from the University of Southern California in '06 and currently live in LA, where I spend my time stuck on the freeways."

- Marie Lu

Marie Lu is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Young Elites series, as well as the blockbuster    bestselling Legend series. She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry as an artist. Now a full-time writer, she spends her spare time reading, drawing, playing games, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in Los Angeles with her illustrator-author husband, Primo Gallanosa, and their dogs.

Early Life
Lu was born in 1984 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, and later moved to Beijing. In 1989, she and her family moved to the United States in Texas when she was five years old, during the Tiananmen Square Protest. She attended the University of Southern California and interned at Disney Interactive Studios.

Personal Life
Marie Lu is the author of Legend series, the Young Elites series, the Warcross series, and Batman Nightwalker in the DC icons series. As of 2016, she lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband, their son (born 2019) and dogs.

Legend Series

 * Legend (November 29, 2011)
 * Prodigy (January 8, 2013)
 * Champion (November 5, 2013)
 * Life Before Legend (Novella #0.5) (January 5, 2013)
 * Life After Legend (Novella #3.5) (2017)
 * Life After Legend II (Novella #3.6) (2018)
 * Rebel (October 1, 2019)

The Young Elites series

 * The Young Elites (October 7, 2014)
 * The Rose Society (October 13, 2015)
 * The Midnight Star (October 16, 2016)

Warcross series

 * Warcross (September 12, 2017)
 * Wildcard (September 18, 2018)

DC Icons series

 * Batman: Nightwalker (Book 2) (January 2, 2018)

Spirit Animals series

 * The Evertree (Book 7) (March 31, 2015)

Skyhunter series

 * Skyhunter (September 29, 2020)

Other

 * The Kingdom of Back

Citations - “Marie Lu - Wikipedia.” Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Lu. Accessed 21 Sept. 2020.