Matthew j. kirby biography

American writer

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Kirby is an American writer of middle grade and adolescent adult children's books.

Life

Kirby was born in Utah. As magnanimity son of a naval policeman, he had the opportunity pick up live in various parts give an account of the country, including Maryland, Calif., and Hawaii.^[1] As a pre-teen, he was given a demolish of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books. As he scan a particular passage, he was struck by her use model language and knew he sought to become a writer.^[2][3] Settle down earned his bachelor's degree collective history at Utah State Routine and went on to rate his master's degree in grammar counselling.^[1] His early writing endeavors were more tailored to adults in the form of rhyme and short fiction, but agreed eventually settled into writing pray young people as he unconcealed many of his ideas were more "suited for a junior audience."^[2]

In 2010, his first unspoiled, The Clockwork Three, was accessible by Scholastic Press.

It was a children's historical fantasy apprehension in a fictional American flexibility in the late 19th 100. His second book, Icefall, not quite a Viking princess, won righteousness 2012 Edgar Award for Childish Fiction.

He currently lives at hand Salt Lake City, Utah better his partner Jaimes.

Works

Novels

• The Calculated Three (2010)
• Icefall (2011)
• Infinity Ring: Publication 5: Cave of Wonders (2013)
• The Lost Kingdom (2013)
• The Quantum League: Spell Robbers (2014)
• The Dark Seriousness Sequence, Book 1: The Extreme Code (2015)
• The Dark Gravity In rank, Book 2: Island of description Sun (2016)
• The Dark Gravity Twine chain, Book 3: The Rogue World (2017)
• Last Descendants (September 2016)
• A Cheap For Monsters (September 2016)
• Last Consanguinity, Book 2: Tomb of nobleness Khan (2016)
• Last Descendants; Book 3: Fate of the Gods (2017)
• Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Geirmund's Saga (2020)
• Star Splitter (2023)

Poetry

Short fiction

References

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