Justin Cronin

Justin Cronin is an American novelist born in 1962 and raised in New England. He studied at Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first novel, Mary and O'Neil (2001), won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize, and he has also received a Whiting Writers' Award. He is best known for the Passage trilogy (The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors), followed by the standalone novel The Ferryman (2023). He lives in Houston, Texas.