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Margaret Stiefvater (/ˈstiːvɑːtər/ STEE-vah-tər; born November 18, 1981) is an American writer of young adult fiction, known mainly for her series of fantasy novels The Wolves of Mercy Falls and The Raven Cycle. She currently lives in Virginia.[1]

Maggie Stiefvater
BornHeidi Hummel
(1981-11-18) November 18, 1981 (age 40)
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
OccupationWriter
Alma materUniversity of Mary Washington (B.A.)
GenreFantasy, young adult fiction
Website
Official website

Life and career



Early life


Stiefvater was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She described herself as an "anxious child with many phobias."[2] As a child, she wanted to be a fighter pilot and race-car driver[3] and was a voracious reader who enjoyed writing.[4] By age 16, she was submitting manuscripts to publishers.[4] After being home-schooled from sixth grade on,[5] Stiefvater attended Mary Washington College, graduating with a B.A. in history.[6] By the time she had entered college, she had already written over 30 novels, including four thrillers about the Irish Republican Army, a historical blockade runner novel, and a high-fantasy novel about "impassioned enchanters fighting among civil unrest."[4] At 16, she legally changed her first name from Heidi to Margaret.[7] Her maiden name was Hummel.[8] After graduating, she worked as a portrait artist, specializing in equestrian art.[9] In 2010, she gave a TEDx Talk for NASA entitled "How Bad Teens Become Famous People",[10] in which she reflects on her youth as a "Bad Teen" and how those years have impacted her.


Writing career


Stiefvater published her first novel, Lament, in 2008.[11] Before Lament had been released, she sold the rights to Ballad, the sequel to Lament, and to Shiver, the first book in the trilogy The Wolves of Mercy Falls.[12] Shiver spent more than 40 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.[13] There are over 1.7 million copies of The Wolves of Mercy Falls series in print and more than thirty-six foreign editions have been licensed.[14]

In 2011, Stiefvater published The Scorpio Races, which received 5 starred reviews and was named a Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book.[15]

Stiefvater has been very open about sharing her techniques and methods when writing. She has a series of blog posts entitled "how i write" describing her different approaches and sharing advice.[16] In 2018 and 2019, Maggie Stiefvater gave writing seminars entitled Portraits & Dreams: Writing with Maggie Stiefvater.[17] It included a lecture and a Q&A. She gave this lecture in Edinburgh, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Toronto, and Vancouver.[18]


Music


Stiefvater plays various musical instruments.[19] She recorded original compositions for the audio books of The Scorpio Races[20] and The Raven Cycle.[21] She has a SoundCloud account where she releases her original tracks.[22] Stiefvater is very connected to music and has released playlists for some of her novels of songs she listened to while writing.[23]


Art


Self portrait by the author.
Self portrait by the author.

Before turning to writing full-time, Stiefvater was a professional portrait artist, specializing in colored pencil.[24] She currently has her own Etsy page and Society6 page where she sells her original art.

Stiefvater also created a Tarot card deck, The Raven's Prophecy Tarot Cards in September 2015.[25]

She was asked to create a poster for the American Library Association to promote reading.[26] The poster includes characters from The Raven Cycle and the phrase "The future belongs to those who read."


Cars


Stiefvater greatly enjoys cars, especially fast ones.[27] She has completed a stunt driving class.[28] She has worked as an automotive journalist.[27][29]

Stiefvater has frequently used her passion for vehicles to promote her novels. To promote the second book of The Raven Cycle, The Dream Thieves, Stiefvater spray-painted her own car. She later allowed fans to also spray-paint the vehicle at the book's launch in Kansas City on September 18, 2013.[30] She repeated this for another event in October 2016, where she let fans paint her Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X.[31][32] In 2013 Stiefvater went rally racing in a race car printed with the cover of The Raven Boys.[33][34]

In 2015, Stiefvater drove her Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X in a race against fellow author John Green at the Princeton Speedway.[35][36] Both their vehicles caught fire.[36][28]


Personal life


Stiefvater has a personal blog where she shares her life events.[28] Stiefvater is married to a "straight-laced husband"[28] and has two children.[37] She has four dogs named Winnie, Parsifal, Jane, and Rose.[38] She also has nine goats[39] and a horse.[40]

In 2019, Stiefvater was diagnosed with Addison's disease after she collapsed on a book tour.[41] She has been very public about her health condition in the hope that it would raise awareness for others.[41]


Bibliography



Novels



Books of Faerie


The Wolves of Mercy Falls

Main article: The Wolves of Mercy Falls

The Raven Cycle

Main article: The Raven Cycle

The Dreamer Trilogy

Pip Bartlett - with Jackson Pearce


Other novels


Anthologies



Short fiction



Graphic Novels



Film adaptations


Unique Features, in association with Paramount optioned Shiver's film rights shortly after the book was released.[43] A screenplay was written by Nick Pustay.[44][45]

It was reported in 2011 that David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith’s KatzSmith Productions would produce a film of Scorpio Races.[46] New Line Cinema, in conjunction with Weed Road, optioned the film rights for The Raven Boys shortly before the book's release in September 2012.[47]

In 2019, Stiefvater wrote the pilot for a TV show of The Raven Cycle.[48]


Recognition



Shiver



Lament



The Scorpio Races



The Raven Boys



The Dream Thieves



Blue Lily, Lily Blue



See also



References


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  2. "Maggie Stiefvater on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  3. Stanton, Doug. "Maggie Stiefvater Talks New Novel 'The Raven Boys,' Fast Cars, and YA Fiction". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
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  5. "School Library Journal". Schoollibraryjournal.com. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  6. "Whois Lookup". Iesb.net. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  7. "Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater – In Which Maggie Helps With Homework". M-stiefvater.livejournal.com. 2011-01-25. Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  8. "What is Stiefvater's political stance?". Tumbrl. 2015-07-18. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
  9. "Fine Art and Glass Gallery Richmond Virginia". Chasen Galleries. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  10. TEDxNASA - Maggie Stiefvater - How Bad Teens Become Famous People, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2020-02-26
  11. Leitich, Cynthia (2008-10-14). "Cynsations: Author Interview: Maggie Stiefvater on Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception". Cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  12. Thornton, Matthew (2008-09-15). "Deals: Elements of Graphic Style". Publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  13. "Fantasy writer makes real impact on fiction genre". National Writers Series. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  14. "Maggie Stiefvater's Biography". Scholastic Teachers. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
  15. Bartel, Julie (9 January 2014). "One Thing Leads to Another: An Interview with Maggie Stiefvater". YALSA The Hub. American Library Association. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  16. "how i write". Maggie Stiefvater. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  17. "Portraits & Dreams: Writing with Maggie Stiefvater in Edinburgh". Retrieved 2020-02-26.
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  19. Lodge, Sally (2012-06-05). "PW Talks with Maggie Stiefvater". Publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  20. "Scorpio Races". Audiobooks.com. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  21. Audiobooks & Original Audio Shows - Get More from Audible.
  22. "Maggie Stiefvater". SoundCloud. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  23. "Call Down the Hawk playlist". Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  24. "Maggie Stiefvater on Creating an Animated Book Trailer for The Raven Boys". Children's Book Council (cbcbooks.org). August 6, 2012. Archived 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  25. "Tarot Deck Release". Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  26. "Raven Cycle Poster | ALA Store". www.alastore.ala.org. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  27. Stiefvater, Maggie (2018-10-19). "The Rolls-Royce Cullinan Is Spectacular". Road & Track. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  28. "A Bullet-Point Decade". Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  29. Stiefvater, Maggie (2019-01-10). "Driving the Last Brand-New Mitsubishi Evo to its Grave". Road & Track. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  30. "In Which Readers Become Hooligans (Briefly)". Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  31. Stiefvater, Maggie (2016-10-17). "So, readers painted my car yesterday.pic.twitter.com/Pl9ne7hm3r". @mstiefvater. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  32. Stiefvater, Maggie. "Why You Should Give Your Car A Shitty Paint Job". Jalopnik. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  33. "Band Name Alert: Damage Waiver". Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  34. Stiefvater, Maggie (2013-01-30), SnoDrift 2013, retrieved 2020-02-26
  35. Maggie Stiefvater vs. John Green at the Princeton Speedway, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2020-02-26
  36. "What It's Like To Destroy A Fire-Breathing Mitsubishi Evolution". Jalopnik. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  37. "CW and Werewolves? Shiver Has Worldwide Buzz, to Launch at WM Bookstore". Williamsburg Yorktown Daily. August 2, 2009. Archived 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  38. Stiefvater, Maggie (2019-11-22). "(from upper left, clockwise: Winnie, Parsifal, Jane, Rose, a stuffed hedgehog)". @mstiefvater. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  39. "Things Fall Down". Retrieved 2020-02-26.
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  42. Seyffer, Lelanie (January 23, 2020). "'Swamp Thing: Twin Branches': Cover, synopsis for Maggie Stiefvater's new graphic novel". Hypable. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
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  44. "Screenwriter hired for movie of Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater". Novel Novice. 2010-02-12. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
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  48. Stiefvater, Maggie (2019-08-31). "Oh right, I read chapter 14 really recently, though, when I wrote the pilot for the TV show (yes, it's still in development, KEEP BEING PATIENT)pic.twitter.com/jydKJ98so1". @mstiefvater. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
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На других языках

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[ru] Стивотер, Мэгги

Мэгги Стивотер (англ. Maggie Stiefvater; р. 1981) — американская писательница подростковой литературы.


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