Biography
The works of American writer Cassandra Claire are popular among adolescents around the world. The novels in the genre of urban fantasy are combined into the cycles, causing a desire to read the continuation of the adventures of those who loved the heroes. The dynamic plot of books is easily turning into a fiction film scenery, also heating interest in Claire's work.Childhood and youth
Judith Ruimelt, subsequently taking a literary pseudonym Kassandra Claire, was born on July 31, 1973 in the family of American citizens Elizabeth and Richard Ruimelt. At the time of birth, the daughter they lived in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Richard Ruhelt is known as the author of the fundamental work on management and business strategy, but he also revealed a lot on earth.
Little Judith traveled through the Himalayas sitting in a backpack on his father's back. She visited France, England and Switzerland before he graduated from younger school. In order for the girl to receive a decent education, the family returned to the USA, settling in Los Angeles. At school, the twelve-year-old girl began writing the stories that I liked classmates.
The schoolgirl wrote the epic novel "Beautiful Cassandra" - continuation of the story of Jane Austin. From this work and was born a creative pseudonym. Probably, a rich fantasy and creative vest of Cassandra Claire inherited not only from his father, but also from grandfather on the motherboard, Max Rosenberg, the producer of horror films.
After graduating from college, Cassandra worked as a journalist in the diverse prints of New York - from the boulevard press to the largest magazine about Cinema The Hollywood Reporter.
Literature
Popularity began with the writings of fan fiction. Inspired by the cult epic of John R. R. Tolkina, Claire wrote "very secret diaries", describing events in the Mediterranean from the points of view of different characters. In the genre of the diary, "Trilogy Draco" is written - the story of Draco Malfoy's adventures, one of Harry Potter enemies in the famous cycle Joan Rowling.
The fan fiction of the young author led to the delight of not only the fandomed partner on the Internet, but also literary critics. Journalists "Times" and "Telegraph" called the works of Kassandra Claire with a worthy continuation of the originals. In 2007, the scandal broke around around the texts of Claire with the accusations of her in the plagiarism, after which the writer removed fan fiction from free access and took up the creation of his own world.
The biography of the author published began in 2004, when the story "Handbook for girls for the overthrow of the Dark Lord" came out in the Turn Turnbook for Girls. The first novel Claire was published in 2007 - it was the "city of Kostya", the initial book of the "Tool of Death" series, subsequently cutting down to six volumes. The author was inspired by the landscapes of Manhattan, tattoos and the work of Rowling.
In the books of Kassandra Claire, the world of ordinary people is adjacent to the mysterious twilight world, where the magic creatures are lived on the skin of a tattoo with a magical force. Fifteen-year-old Clary Free has the ability to see the inhabitants of the parallel world and is experiencing fantastic adventures. The first cycles are adjacent to the novels "Twilight hunters and the inhabitants of the lower world" and "Code of Twilight Hunters".
Prix serves a series of books "hellish mechanisms", whose heroes appear in Victorian England. In 2016, the continuation of the "Death Iars" was published. The action of the novel "Lady Midnight", the first book of the "dark arts" cycle, unfolded five years after the events of the "city of heavenly fire". The adventures of the increased twilight hunter Emma Carshirs also describes the book "Lord Shadows", and the cycle is not finished yet.
Books were positioned as teenage literature and, indeed, were adopted with adections with delight. The world generated by the fantasy Kassandra Claire has many fans creating fan clubs and writing fan fiction now about her characters. In 2013, the "City of Bones" was shielded, but the film was worse than the book and did not have success in the box office. In 2016, the second attempt was made to postpone the Action of the Romans of Kassandra Claire on the screen, this time in the form of the series.
Personal life
Cassandra is married to Joshua Lewis, there are no children from spouses. The couple lives in the small American town of Amherst, in the Khampshire County, Massachusetts, located in the valley of the Connecticut River.
Not far from her house lives Choli Black - a long-standing girlfriend and co-author of the writer. Claire prefers cats as domestic pets. You can get closer to the personal life of the writer on its page in Facebook or Twitter.
Cassandra Claire now
For 2018-2019, the author announced the exit to the light of the "Ghosts of the Twilight Market" cycle. The first book called the "Son of Dawn" will be available in April, the eighth - "through blood and fire" - in November 2018. All eight volumes can be read in electronic form. The ninth and tenth books will be published in the paper and offer to customers in 2019.
Also in 2018, fans of the Dark Art series will be able to plunge into the loved world: they are expected to continue the adventures of the heroes in the books "Golden Boy" and "Enemy of Death". The appearance of the third volume of the "dark art" cycle is "Queen of Air and Darkness" - announced for the autumn of the same year.
In addition to intensive work on the writing of exciting stories, the writer controls the shooting of the third season of the series "Twilight Hunters", being one of the authors of the film script.
Bibliography
- 2007-2014 - Series "Tools of Death"
- 2010-2013 - Series "Hell Mechanisms"
- 2013 - "Twilight hunters and inhabitants of the lower world"
- 2013 - "Code of Twilight Hunters"
- 2013-2014 - the stories of the "Chronicles of Bain"
- 2014-2018 - Series "Magiserium"
- 2015 - Stories "Chronicles of the Academy of Twilight Hunters"
- 2016-2017 - Dark Art series
- 2017 - "Famous Twilight Hunters and Residents of the Lower World: History in Flowers"