Justin Cronin

For the American politician, see Justin Cronin (politician).

Justin Cronin
File:Justin cronin 2012.jpg Justin Cronin at the 2012 Texas Book Festival.
Born	1962 (age 61–62) New England, United States
Occupation	Novelist, English professor
Genre	Horror, Science fiction

Justin Cronin (born 1962) is an American author. He has written four novels: Mary and O'Neil and The Summer Guest, as well as two of three books of a vampire trilogy: The Passage and The Twelve. He has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Stephen Crane Prize, and a Whiting Award.

Born and raised in New England, Cronin is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He taught creative writing and was the "Author in-residence" at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA from 1992 to 2003. He is a former professor of English at Rice University, and he lives with his wife and children in Houston, Texas.

In July 2007, Variety reported that Fox 2000 had bought the screen rights to Cronin's vampire trilogy. The first book of the series, The Passage, was released in June 2010. It garnered mainly favorable reviews.

Bibliography

• A Short History of the Long Ball (1990)
• Mary and O'Neil (2001) – Winner of The Stephen Crane Prize from Book of the Month Club
• The Summer Guest (2004)
• The Passage (2010) (Book 1 of The Passage Trilogy)
• The Twelve (2012) (Book 2 of The Passage Trilogy)
• The City of Mirrors (expected Spring 2016) (Book 3 of The Passage Trilogy)

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• An Interview with Justin Cronin at Rollins College (February 2014)
• An Interview With Justin Cronin on KRUI's The Lit Show