They are all on a mission to cure Cameron's mad cow disease.īeauty Queens, about a group of beauty pageant contestants whose plane crashes on an island, was published by Scholastic Press on May 24, 2011.īray's novel, The Diviners, was published on September 18, 2012. Cameron has visitation from a punkish angel named Dulcie who has a propensity for spray-painting her wings. Gonzo is a video gamer who thinks that everything is trying to kill him. It is a dark comedy about a 16-year-old boy named Cameron who has mad cow disease and a 16-year-old dwarf named Gonzo whom he met in the hospital.

Printz Award from the American Library Association recognizing literary excellence in young adult literature. Going Bovine was published by Delacorte in 2009 and won the annual Michael L. She wrote two more books to finish the trilogy she had started with A Great and Terrible Beauty: Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing.īray is friends with many young adult authors such as John Green and Maureen Johnson, and with fellow YA fantasy authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare. In November 2006, a video promoting the book was a part of The Book Standard's Teen Book Video Awards. Her first novel, A Great and Terrible Beauty became a New York Times bestseller. Before this, using a pseudonym, she had written three books for 17th Street Press (a publisher of romances). īray was encouraged to write a young adult novel by her husband, Barry Goldblatt, a children's book agent and Ginee Seo, an editor at Simon & Schuster.

Career īray's first job was in the publicity department of Penguin Putnam, followed by three years at Spier, an advertising agency specializing in book advertising. īray is married to Barry Goldblatt, a children's book agent, and the couple have a son, Josh. When her childhood best friend, already living in Manhattan, called saying she was looking for a roommate, Bray moved to New York. As a budding playwright, she felt it important to be in New York City. īray graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988 as a Theatre major. She had to undergo thirteen surgeries over six years to reconstruct her face, and has an artificial left eye because of the accident. At the age of eighteen, three weeks after graduating high school, Bray was involved in a serious car accident. She and her family moved to West Virginia for a brief period, then to Corpus Christi, Texas and finally to Denton, Texas, where Bray attended high school. Her father was a gay Presbyterian minister, and her mother was an English teacher. Martha Elizabeth Bray was born in Montgomery, Alabama.

Martha Elizabeth ' Libba' Bray (March 11, 1964) is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners.

The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray