About Samnatha Shannon

I decided to research my author, Samantha Shannon, so that I could understand her writing. She is British and was born on November 8,1991 in Hammersmith, she is now age 22. Shannon grew up in west London and began writing in highschool. The first book that she ever wrote was at the age 15 it remains to be unpublished but it is called Aurora. Shannon attended Bishop Ramsey School, she studied English and Literature, but she manly specialized in Emily Dickinson and the Principles of Film Criticism at St. Anne's College, Oxford. And graduated in 2013 from Oxford University. In 2012 before graduation she signed a six figure book deal with Bloomsbury publishing so that she could write the first three books in a seven book series starting with The Bone Season. Film rights to The Bone Season were sold to Andy Sekis, another writer, and his company The Imaginarium Studios in the fall of 2012 but later the rights were acquired by Twentieth Century Fox and Chernon Studios in the fall of 2013. 

In 2012 while she was attending college the Women of the Future award short listed her as a contender for The Young Star Award. Her first novel The Bone Season has now been sold in over 27 countries worldwide. This book recieved even more hype than the last book in the Divergent series so I hope hat this up and coming new author can live up to the hype of her first published book.