Justin Cronin is The New York Times bestselling author of The Passage Trilogy (The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors), the inspiration for a FOX TV series. The unforgettable tale that critics and readers compared to the novels of Cormac McCarthy, Michael Crichton, Stephen King, and Margaret Atwood became a bestseller. It spent three months on The New York Times bestseller list. and was featured on more than a dozen “Best of the Year” lists, including Time’s “Top 10 Fiction of 2010,” NPR’s “Year’s Most Transporting Books,” and Esquire’s “Best & Brightest of 2010.” It was a #1 Indie Next Selection. It sold in more than 40 countries and became a bestseller in many of them. The Twelve and The City of Mirrors were also critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers.
Justin Cronin is also the author of Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. Other honors for his writing include a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writer’s Award.
A distinguished faculty fellow at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
