^ 'Exclusive: Marie Lu's 'Stars and Smoke' Brings the Sparks in This Special Excerpt'.

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'The Journey' in A Tyranny of Petticoats, edited by Jessica Spotswood (March 8, 2017).

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Life Before Legend (Novella #0.5) (January 5, 2013).Lu at BookCon in June 2019 Legend series It was followed by The Rose Society on October 13, 2015, and The Midnight Star on October 16, 2016. Lu's first fantasy series began with publication of The Young Elites on October 7, 2014. Two other books in the planned trilogy, Prodigy and Champion, were published in 2013. Lu has said that she was inspired by the movie Les Miserables and sought to recreate the conflict between Valjean and Javert in a teenage version. Lu's debut novel, Legend, was published Novemas the first of a young adult science fiction trilogy.

Lu currently lives in the Arts District of Los Angeles with her husband, their son (born 2019) and three dogs.

She attended the University of Southern California, where she studied political science and biology, and interned as an artist at Disney Interactive Studios. She grew up between Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Houston, learning English by writing stories. In 1989, she and her family moved to the United States in Texas when she was five years old, during the Tiananmen Square Protest. Lu was born in 1984 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, and later moved to Beijing. She is best known for the Legend series, novels set in a dystopian and militarized future, as well as the Young Elites series, the Warcross series, and Batman: Nightwalker in the DC Icons series. Marie Lu (born 11 July 1984 birthname: Xiwei Lu, Chinese: 陸希未) is a Chinese-American young adult author.

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu