Cassandra Clare is actually the nom de plume of Cassandra Claire, born in Teheran, Iran. She wrote the hugely successful Award-Winning YA trilogy books that has been optioned for film. Her parents are American and they have travelled all over the world with her when she was a toddler from Himalaya through Europe.
Ms. Clare, spent her high school years in Los Angeles. She moved to New York after college where she worked at different entertainment magazines and tabloids.
Her first novel, City of Bones, was a New York Times best seller. The latest series “Shadowhunter,” is Ms. Clare’s first of a trilogy of prequels to “Mortal Instruments” series, “The Infernal Devices.”
The first volume in her Mortal Instruments is “The Clockwork Angel,” which will be available in every bookstore and on line September 7th, 2010. Her fourth Mortal Instruments book, “City of Fallen Angels,” will be available next year March 11th , 2011
Photo of Cassandra Clare (B/W) by D. Williford
To learn more about Cassandra Clare, please visit her website
to purchase her books, please visit AMAZON and Barnes & Nobles
