克莉丝汀·卡修

克莉丝汀·卡修（Kristin Cashore，1976年—）是一位美国青年奇幻小说作家。

早年生活

克莉丝汀·卡修在宾夕法尼亚州的乡村长大，是家里四个女儿中的老二。她拥有威廉姆斯学院的学士学位，2003年获得西蒙斯学院儿童文学研究中心的儿童文学硕士学位。她曾是糖果工厂的包装工，编辑助理，法律助理和自由撰稿人。2017年，她开始在家外的办公室工作，她还在手写所有的小说。

文学生涯

她的处女作《杀人恩典》（Graceling）出版于2008年10月。

该书被提名安德烈·诺顿和威廉·C·莫里斯奖。

她的第二本书《Fire》出版于2009年10月，是《Graceling》的前传，获得了阿梅利亚·伊丽莎白·瓦尔登图书奖。

她的第三本书《Bitterblue》出版于2012年5月，这三本书都是Graceling Realm系列的一部分，已售出超过150万册，并已翻译成33种语言。

她的最新作品是《Jane, Unlimited》，于2017年9月发行。

克莉丝汀还为教科书、教师版以及《号角指南》撰写专业著作。

作品

Graceling，2008年10月1日

Fire，2009年10月5日

Bitterblue，2012年5月1日

Jane, Unlimited，2017年9月17日

Kristin Cashore (born 1976) is an American young adult and fantasy writer, best known for the Graceling Realm series.

Early life

Cashore grew up in the Pennsylvania countryside, the second of four daughters. She has a bachelor's degree from Williams College. She received her master's degree in Children's Literature from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College in 2003. She has worked as a dog runner, a packer in a candy factory, an editorial assistant, a legal assistant, and a freelance writer. She writes her novels by hand.

Literary career

Her debut novel, Graceling, was published in October 2008. The book was nominated for the Andre Norton and William C. Morris awards and earned a place on the Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year for 2008. Her second book, Fire, was released in October 2009, and is described as being a 'prequel-ish companion book' to Graceling. Fire received the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award.

Bitterblue, the third book of the Graceling Realm series, was released in May 2012. As of 2017, the Graceling Realm series had sold more than 1.5 million copies and been translated into 33 languages.

Cashore's fourth book, Jane, Unlimited, was released in September 2017. Jane, Unlimited is her first published novel that takes a step away from the Graceling Realm, and is told in multiple genres.

Cashore returned to the Graceling Realm series with Winterkeep, which was released in January 2021. Seasparrow, released in November 2022, was the fifth book in the series.

Cashore has also written professionally for textbooks, and teacher editions, as well as for The Horn Book Guide.

Her latest book, There Is a Door in this Darkness, was released on June 11, 2024.

Publications

Standalone novels

Jane, Unlimited (September 19, 2017)

There Is a Door in This Darkness (June 11, 2024)

Graphic novels

Graceling: Graphic Novel (November 16, 2021)