BIOGRAPHY

Lev Grossman was born in1969, the son of two English professors, and grew up in Lexington, MA, a suburb of Boston. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in literature and went on to the Ph.D. program in comparative literature at Yale, although he left after three years without finishing a dissertation.

After Yale Grossman worked for a string of dot-coms while writing free-lance articles about books, technology and culture in general for numerous magazines, newspapers and websites, including Lingua Franca, the Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, Salon and the New York Times. In 2002 he was hired by Time and became the magazine’s book critic as well as one of its lead technology writers. In 2006 he won the Deadline Club Award for Arts Reporting. The New York Times says Grossman is “among this country's smartest and most reliable critics.”

Grossman published his first novel, Warp, with St. Martin’s in 1997. His second novel, Codex, was published by Harcourt in 2004 and became an international bestseller. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.