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Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone (born May 28, 1984) is an American fantasy author. He is best known for his 2012 debut novel Three Parts Dead, which is part of The Craft Sequence, his urban fantasy serial Bookburners, and for co-writing This Is How You Lose the Time War. • Illustration — Historian Farah Mendlesohn and Max Gladstone at Worldcon Helsinki, 2017 Gladstone is a graduate of Yale University where he studied Chinese. He has worked in China, including as a teacher in a rural area of Anhui from 2006 to 2008 and as a translator for a car magazine.

Max Gladstone

Portrait photoshoot at Worldcon 75, Helsinki, before the Hugo

Henry Söderlund · https: "Worldcon 75 - Pre-Hugo Portraiture is licensed unde · CC BY 4.0

Name
Max Gladstone
Born
28 May 1984
Occupation
Novelist
Education
Yale University
Nationality
United States
Fields
literary activity · fantasy literature · music
Honours
Hugo Award for Best Novella · Nebula Award for Best Novella · Ignyte Award for Best Novella · Locus Award for Best Novella · BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction
Languages
English

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Max Gladstone (born May 28, 1984) is an American fantasy author. He is best known for his 2012 debut novel Three Parts Dead, which is part of The Craft Sequence, his urban fantasy serial Bookburners, and for co-writing This Is How You Lose the Time War. • Illustration — Historian Farah Mendlesohn and Max Gladstone at Worldcon Helsinki, 2017 Gladstone is a graduate of Yale University where he studied Chinese. He has worked in China, including as a teacher in a rural area of Anhui from 2006 to 2008 and as a translator for a car magazine.

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