Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare, born Judith Rumelt in Tehran in 1973, is an American author of young adult fantasy. Her debut novel City of Bones (2007) opened The Mortal Instruments, a six-volume series published by Simon & Schuster and completed in 2014, which reached the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted for film and television. She expanded that world into the Shadowhunter Chronicles, with the prequel trilogy The Infernal Devices (2010-2013), The Dark Artifices (2016-2018) and The Last Hours. The Mortal Instruments has also been adapted as a graphic novel drawn by Cassandra Jean.