Libba Bray (Martha Elizabeth Bray) is an American author of young-adult fiction, born on 11 March 1964 in Montgomery, Alabama, and raised in Texas. She made her name with the Gemma Doyle trilogy, opened by “A Great and Terrible Beauty” (2003), a Victorian gothic fantasy. “Going Bovine” (2009) won the Michael L. Printz Award, and she followed it with the satire “Beauty Queens” (2011) and the Diviners quartet (2012-2020), set in 1920s New York. She has since written “The Lair of Dreams”, “Under the Same Stars” (2024) and “Radio Free Texas” (2026). She lives in Brooklyn.
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Libba Bray (Martha Elizabeth Bray) is an American author of young-adult fiction, born on 11 March 1964 in Montgomery, Alabama, and raised in Texas. She made her name with the Gemma Doyle trilogy, opened by “A Great and Terrible Beauty” (2003), a Victorian gothic fantasy. “Going Bovine” (2009) won the Michael L. Printz Award, and she followed it with the satire “Beauty Queens” (2011) and the Diviners quartet (2012-2020), set in 1920s New York. She has since written “The Lair of Dreams”, “Under the Same Stars” (2024) and “Radio Free Texas” (2026). She lives in Brooklyn.
