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Lev Grossman

1969 - Today

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Lev Grossman (born June 26, 1969) is an American novelist and journalist who wrote The Magicians Trilogy: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), and The Magician's Land (2014). He was the book critic and lead technology writer at Time magazine from 2002 to 2016. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Grossman has received more than 1,076,160 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Grossman is the 7,109th most popular writer (down from 6,305th in 2019), the 16,669th most popular biography from United States (down from 14,702nd in 2019) and the 1,146th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 32.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Magician King
Fiction, fantasy, contemporary, New York Times reviewed
2011
The Silver Arrow
nyt:childrens-middle-grade-hardcover=2020-09-27, New York Times bestseller, Adventure and adventurers, fiction
2020
Dangerous Women
Fantasy, Fiction, English Fantasy fiction
This volume of warriors, bad girls and dragonriders includes stories by worldwide bestselling authors. This first volume includes an original 35,000 word novella revealing the origins of the civil war in Westeros (before the events in *A Game of Thromes*.)
2013
The Magicians
College graduates, College students, Magic
A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real worldQuentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery.He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. After graduation he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin’s fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. His childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart.At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.
2009
Codex
Fiction, psychological
"About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hot-shot young banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. When asked to uncrate and organize a personal library of rare books, Edward's indignation turns to curiosity as he realizes that among the volumes there may be hidden a unique medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons." "Enlisting the help of Margaret Napier, a passionate and brilliant medieval scholar, Edward discovers the strange history of the codex and the dark, intricate tale that lies within its pages. His fascination becomes an obsession that only deepens as friends draw him into a peculiar and addictive game with mystifying parallels between the game's virtual reality and the legend of the medieval codex."--Jacket.
2005
Codex
Book collecting, Medievalists, Medieval Manuscripts
2004

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lev Grossman ranks 7,109 out of 7,302. Before him are Tom Holland, Amma Darko, Diablo Cody, Krisztina Tóth, Kamila Shamsie, and Adam Johnson. After him are Julia Serano, Fatima Massaquoi, Amor Towles, Monica Ali, Zehra Doğan, and Roxane Gay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Lev Grossman ranks 890. Before him are Cho Youn-jeong, Jimmi Madsen, Michael Möllenbeck, Viktor Maigourov, Susan Williams, and Olga Slyusareva. After him are Vadim Khamuttskikh, Cedric Ceballos, Dambisa Moyo, Cree Summer, József Szabó, and Ronald Fuentes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lev Grossman ranks 16,669 out of 20,380. Before him are Shabazz Napier (1991), Yelawolf (1979), Paul G. Kirk (1938), Alaqua Cox (1997), David Otunga (1980), and Dana Snyder (1973). After him are Cedric Ceballos (1969), Scott Forstall (1968), Squire Fridell (1943), Matt Mead (1962), Jay Nixon (1956), and Donna Gigliotti (1955).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lev Grossman ranks 1,146. Before him are Chris Savino (1962), Mika Brzezinski (1967), Rebecca Walker (1969), Elizabeth Hand (1957), Diablo Cody (1978), and Adam Johnson (1967). After him are Julia Serano (1967), Amor Towles (1964), Roxane Gay (1974), Ian Brennan (1978), Scott Lynch (1978), and Tom Bergeron (1955).

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