William Alexander (author)
American author, born 1976
William Joseph Alexander (born October 9, 1976) is an American writer and academic.
He is an adjunct professor in liberal arts at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, located in Montpelier, Vermont.
He won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature recognizing his debut novel, Goblin Secrets, which was published by Margaret K. McElderry Books in 2012. It features an orphaned boy who runs away to search for his lost brother in the magical city of Zombay.
Profile
Alexander studied theater and folklore at Oberlin College, located in Oberlin, Ohio; and English at the University of Vermont, located in Burlington, Vermont.
His first published work of speculative fiction was the seven page short story "The Birthday Rooms" (Zahir, Summer 2005), which earned a 2006 Calvino Prize nomination.
Alexander acknowledges that his writing style is influenced by well-known author including Ursula K. Le Guin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Susan Cooper. Goblin Secrets has received praise from Alexander's literary heroine Le Guin, author of the Earthsea series, and from Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn, and a starred review from Kirkus Reviews.
Alexander plans a series of novels set in Zombay. After the release of Goblin Secrets he told the Enchanted Inkpot, "That place isn't done with me yet.
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