Claire Legrand

Claire Legrand is an American writer of children's, young adult and adult fiction, best known for the New York Times bestselling Empirium trilogy (Furyborn, Kingsbane, Lightbringer). She debuted in 2012 with The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls and has since published novels including Winterspell, Foxheart, Some Kind of Happiness, Sawkill Girls, Extasia and the adult fantasy Middlemist trilogy. She holds a B.A. in English literature and an M.S. in library science from the University of North Texas and worked as a librarian before writing full-time.