Victoria Aveyard

Victoria Aveyard
Born	July 27th, 1990 (age 25) East Longmeadow, MA
Occupation	novelist, screenwriter
Language	English
Nationality	American
Education	Bachelor of Fine Arts in screenwriting
Alma mater	University of Southern California
Genre	Young adult, fantasy
Notable works	Red Queen
Notable awards	2015 Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Novel
Years active	2015–present

Victoria Aveyard is an American young adult and fantasy author and screenwriter.^[1] She is known for her fantasy novel Red Queen,^[2] which is in development to be adapted into a movie. Aveyard wrote the novel a year after graduating from University of Southern California's screenwriting program in 2012.^[3][4] Sony Pictures teamed up with her to write spec screenplay Eternal.^[5]

Early life

Aveyard was born in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, a small town in the United States.^[6]

Bibliography

Red Queen series

• Red Queen (2015)
• Glass Sword (2016)
• Untitled book #3 (forthcoming, 2017)
• Untitled book #4 (forthcoming, 2018)

Red Queen novellas

• Queen Song (2015)
• Steel Scars (2016)

Queen Song and Steel Scars are prequel novellas set in the Red Queen universe, and were collected in one volume as Cruel Crown (2016).^[7]

References

1. "'Red Queen' is familiar fantasy fare". USA Today. February 17, 2015.
2. "Victoria Aveyard: I’m so pleased that badass ladies are considered a 'hot trend'". The Guardian. July 1, 2015.
3. "Elizabeth Banks in Talks to Direct YA Fantasy 'Red Queen'". The Hollywood Reporter.
4. "'Red Queen' Writer Reveals Cover, Talks Inspirations and Splurges". The Hollywood Reporter.
5. "Sony Acquires Spec ‘Eternal’ for ‘Divergent’ Producer and Michael Costigan". Variety. 2014.
6. "Discover Author Victoria Aveyard". HarperCollins.
7. "Hi Victoria, What is Cruel Crown about? Its not...". victoriaaveyard.com. Retrieved 2016-03-09.

External links

• personal blog