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Laini Taylor is the author of of four previous novels: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, the Dreamdark books Blackbringer and Silksinger, and the National Book Award finalist Lips Touch: Three Times. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and their daughter, Clementine.

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Laini Taylor, a self-described "writer-artist-daydreamer-nerd-person," is an American author and artist located in Portland, Oregon, USA. She is the creator of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone series. Along with Daughter of Smoke & Bone, she has also written three previous novels: Blackbringer and Silksinger in the Dreamdark series, as well as National Book Award finalist Lips Touch: Three Times.

Biography[]

Taylor was born on December 11, 1971 inn Chico, California. She is the middle child, with an older brother and younger sister. She grew up in a military family and lived in Europe and California. She earned her English degree from UC Berkeley. She has always wanted to be a writer, and was thirty-five years old when she finished her first novel.

Laini met her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, who illustrates Laini's novels, on her first day at art school. In 2009, their daughter Clementine was born.

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• Silksinger
  • CYBILS Award Nominee for Middle Grade Fantasy & Science Fiction (2009)
• Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    Laini Taylor biography

    Laini Taylor was born 1971 in Chico, California. She moved around a lot growing up (Hawaii, Italy, Belgium, Virginia, California) and can speak some French and Italian. She graduated from Fountain Valley High School in Orange County CA in 1989 and then from UC Berkeley with a degree in English in 1994.

    She has always wanted to be a writer and past jobs include working as a travel book editor (Lonely Planet), a bookseller, a waitress, and an illustrator/designer. She is married with a daughter.

    Remarkable and beautifully written. The opening volume of a truly original trilogy. The Guardian

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