Justin Cronin

Author

Justin Cronin is an American novelist and professor whose work spans literary fiction and epic post-apocalyptic horror. Born in 1962, he studied English at Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he won the PEN/Hemingway Award for his debut novel Mary and O'Neil. He taught Creative Writing at Rice University in Houston... for many years. Cronin's major achievement is The Passage trilogy — The Passage, The Twelve, and The City of Mirrors — a vast, ambitious series that begins with a government experiment gone wrong that unleashes a vampire plague, then follows the survivors across a century of struggle to reclaim civilisation. The trilogy was adapted into a Fox television series and is praised for combining the scope of literary fiction with the propulsive energy of genre storytelling. His subsequent novel The Ferryman explores a utopian island society hiding dark secrets. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers epic storytelling that refuses to choose between literary ambition and narrative excitement — fiction that asks big questions about human nature while keeping you absolutely gripped. Read more Show less